EXIF Viewer
Find out exactly what a photo reveals about you: camera and lens, capture settings, timestamps, and — most importantly — the GPS location where it was taken. Everything is read locally in your browser, free, and the photo itself is never uploaded anywhere.
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How the EXIF viewer works
The photo's metadata blocks — EXIF, XMP, and IPTC — are parsed directly in your browser and organized into readable sections: camera and lens, exposure settings, dates, and image properties. If GPS coordinates are embedded, they are converted to decimal form and highlighted with a clear warning, since location is the most sensitive thing a photo can leak.
When coordinates are found, the location is shown immediately on an embedded OpenStreetMap preview with a marker, along with direct links to OpenStreetMap and Google Maps and a one-click path to strip the metadata with the EXIF Remover. The only external request involved is fetching the map tiles themselves — the photo never leaves your browser.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I find out where a photo was taken?
- If the photo still contains GPS data — which most phone photos do unless location tagging is off — yes. The viewer shows the exact coordinates and links to open them on a map. If the GPS section is missing, the location cannot be recovered from the file.
- Does the map preview affect my privacy?
- The photo is never uploaded — parsing happens entirely in your browser. Drawing the map preview does request map tiles for the coordinates from OpenStreetMap, the same as opening any map website; hide the map if you would rather not make that request. Nothing else about you or the file is transmitted.
- Which formats can be inspected?
- JPEG, HEIC/HEIF (iPhone photos), PNG, WebP, TIFF, and AVIF. If a file has no readable metadata, the viewer says so explicitly — that is a good result, not an error.
- Why does my photo show no metadata?
- Most social networks and messengers — WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook — strip metadata on upload, and screenshots never have any. A photo with no metadata is a clean photo; nothing about the camera or location can be read from it.