EXIF viewer
See what your camera or phone recorded inside a picture — including where it was taken.
- Runs on your device — the file is never sent anywhere
- No sign-up, no watermarks, no daily quotas
- Free, with no limit on how often you use it
How it works
Every photo taken on a phone carries a block of hidden information: the device, the date and time, the camera settings and, very often, the exact coordinates where you were standing. People share photos without knowing this is in there. The obvious irony of checking it on a website is that you would have to upload the photo to find out — so this reads it in the page.
What is usually in there
Camera make and model, the date and time to the second, exposure, aperture, ISO and focal length, the lens, the software that last touched the file, and on a phone almost always the GPS coordinates. Some cameras also store an owner name or copyright string you set once and forgot about.
The location is the part that matters
Coordinates are accurate to a few metres. A photo taken at home, posted publicly, tells anyone who looks exactly where you live. If any GPS data is found, you will be told plainly and pointed at the metadata remover.
When nothing is found
Screenshots, PNGs and images saved by many apps carry no EXIF at all. Neither does anything that has already been through a social network — most of them strip metadata on upload, which is one of the few things they do that is unambiguously in your favour. No metadata found means there is nothing hidden to remove.
What it reads
JPEG files, which is what cameras and phones produce. The common tags are decoded rather than every tag that exists, so the output is readable rather than a dump of numbers.
EXIF viewer — questions
Can this show where a photo was taken?
Yes, if the photo contains GPS coordinates — most phone photos do unless location was turned off.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The file is read in your browser and nothing is transmitted.
Why does my picture show no data?
Screenshots, PNGs and anything downloaded from social media usually have no EXIF, because it was never written or has been stripped.
How do I remove this data?
Use the metadata remover, which writes a clean copy with the hidden data gone.