EXIF viewer online — read a photo's metadata, no install
An EXIF viewer reads the metadata block a camera or phone embeds inside a photo file — information that never shows up when you just look at the picture. This one runs entirely as a web page: no app to install, no account to create, and no upload, since the file is read directly in your browser.
Drag a photo here, or
JPEG carries the most metadata to read — PNG, WebP and GIF are supported too.
This photo's metadata includes exact coordinates: .
No location coordinates turned up in this photo's metadata.
Redrawing the photo onto a canvas removes every metadata tag it read above, regardless of which export format you pick below.
Why check metadata in a browser tab
Reading Exif data used to mean opening desktop software built for photographers, or hunting through an operating system's file-properties panel, which usually shows only a fraction of what's actually in the file and nothing at all for GPS. A page like this one needs none of that: drop a file in, and the same standard File API browsers already expose reads the bytes directly, with a parser decoding the Exif/TIFF structure on the spot.
The part worth being deliberate about is where that reading happens. A metadata viewer that works by uploading your photo to a server can technically do the same job, but it also means a third party's server briefly holds a file that might carry your exact GPS coordinates — the one piece of information this whole category of tool exists to help you check for. Doing the read locally, in the browser, removes that step entirely: there is no upload endpoint in this tool for the photo to reach.
What to expect from the result
Results vary a lot by source. A photo straight off a phone or dedicated camera, never edited, tends to carry the most: make, model, exposure settings, a timestamp, and — if location services were on — GPS. A screenshot carries essentially none, since there was no camera involved. A photo that has been through an image editor, a messaging app's own compression, or a platform's upload pipeline may have lost some or all of its original metadata along the way, which is exactly why checking the specific file in front of you matters more than assuming based on where it came from.
This tool reports plainly when nothing turns up rather than implying a problem with the check itself — an empty result is a normal, common outcome, not a failure.
Frequently asked questions
What can an online EXIF viewer actually tell me?
Whatever the photo's own metadata contains — commonly the camera make and model, exposure time, aperture, ISO, focal length, the date and time the shot was taken, which way up the sensor was oriented, and GPS coordinates if location services were enabled. It can only report what is actually embedded in that specific file; a photo that was already stripped of metadata, or was never tagged with GPS in the first place, will simply show less.
Why would I need to view EXIF data instead of just looking at the photo?
Because none of it is visible in the image itself. Two visually identical photos can have completely different metadata — one with an exact GPS tag and a full camera profile, one with none at all — and the only way to tell them apart is to read the file's metadata directly, whether you're checking your own photo before posting it or trying to understand where and how someone else's photo was taken.
Does an online tool need to upload my photo to read its metadata?
Not necessarily, and it shouldn't for something this sensitive. This tool reads the file's bytes locally in your browser using the File API and a hand-written Exif parser — the photo is decoded and scanned on your device, with no server call involved, which matters most for exactly the files where GPS data might be present.
Why do some photos show no EXIF data at all?
Several common reasons: the format doesn't carry it (PNG, WebP and GIF rarely do, since Exif is a JPEG convention), the photo was re-saved or edited by software that strips metadata in the process, it already passed through a platform that removes metadata on upload, or it's a screenshot rather than a camera photo and never had camera metadata to begin with.