EXIF · GPS · MP4
EXIF and metadata viewer
Drop a photo or a video and read everything the file says about itself: the camera, the dates, the GPS fix, the codec. The report is built in this browser tab, so the file is never uploaded and never altered.
Nothing is downloaded and nothing is changed. The page reads the bytes, prints what it finds and holds no copy of the file — close the tab and it is gone.
At a glance
- Price
- Free
- Account
- None needed
- Upload
- None — the file is read in your browser tab, nothing is sent to a server
- Input
- JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg, .jfif, .jpe), PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC and HEIF photos; MP4, M4V, MOV, WebM and MKV videos
- Output
- A readable metadata report on screen
- Download
- None — the viewer only reports; it saves no file and never changes the original
- File size
- 256 MB per file
- Works on
- Any modern browser
How to check photo metadata
Load the file
Drop the photo or video, or pick it from disk. JPEG (including .jfif and .jpe), PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC and HEIF are read, as are MP4, M4V, MOV, WebM and MKV, up to 256 MB per file.
Read the report
A few headline facts come first — camera, date taken, GPS, duration — followed by the full tables: EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, PNG text chunks, container times and tags. Coordinates link out to OpenStreetMap.
Keep or clear it
The viewer only reports; the file stays untouched and nothing is saved. If the metadata should go, the EXIF remover on this site writes a cleaned copy of the same file.
What is inside a photo or a video
EXIF is the block a camera writes into a photo, and it is candid: the make and model of the body, the lens, the software that saved the file, the capture and modification dates, the ISO, shutter speed and aperture, the body and lens serial numbers, the owner name and often a small thumbnail of the shot. The GPS coordinates usually sit in the same block, so the picture can name the place it was taken. XMP and IPTC carry a different layer of the same story — titles, descriptions, creators, keywords, copyright — and PNG builds keep their text in tEXt chunks instead.
Video spreads the record out. MP4 and MOV files hold user-data atoms such as ©mak, ©mod, ©swr, ©day, ©nam, ©des, ©cmt, ©aut and ©xyz, iTunes-style ilst keys, and creation and modification times in the mvhd and tkhd headers; WebM and MKV files keep their tags in a Tags element and a title or recording date in Info. Beside all that are the facts of the media itself: width and height, duration, codec, and any attached file the container holds, such as cover art. The viewer prints what the bytes actually contain and nothing more, and it changes nothing — HEIC and HEIF included.
Metadata viewer questions
Which files can I inspect?
Photos: JPEG, including the .jfif and .jpe spellings, plus PNG, WebP, GIF, and HEIC or HEIF stills from a phone. Videos: MP4, M4V, MOV, WebM and MKV. Up to 256 MB per file and 20 files at a time, all read in the browser.
What does the report actually show?
Camera make and model, lens, software, dates, ISO, shutter and aperture, body and lens serial numbers, owner name, any embedded thumbnail, GPS coordinates with a link to OpenStreetMap, XMP, IPTC, PNG text chunks, WebM and MKV tags, MP4 and MOV user-data atoms, container times, plus dimensions, duration, codec and attached files where the container has them.
Does the viewer upload or change my file?
Neither. The bytes are read in the browser tab and the report is drawn from them; there is no upload, no queue, no account and no worker, and the file on your device is untouched because nothing is ever written back. The EXIF orientation flag is reported rather than removed, as it is what keeps phone photos upright.
Is there a size limit?
256 MB per file and 20 files at a time. Videos take longer than photos because their header tables are spread across the file, so only the parts that hold metadata are read while the media payload is skipped. Once the page has loaded it works offline, since every read happens inside the tab.