Check what a photo's metadata says
Drop a photo and see exactly what it's carrying, camera and lens, exposure settings, capture date, GPS coordinates if any, copyright and software fields. Nothing about the file changes, this only reads it.
Want the best result? Read How to check a photo's EXIF metadata.
What a photo's metadata can tell you
Every JPG, PNG, HEIC, AVIF or WebP a camera or phone produces can carry a block of EXIF data alongside the pixels: the camera make and model, the lens used, and the exposure triangle, aperture, shutter speed and ISO, that produced the shot. Photographers use this to learn from a session, which settings actually worked, which lens was on the camera for a shot they liked.
It can also carry the exact capture date and time, GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, the software last used to edit the file, and author or copyright fields. None of that shows up when you simply look at the picture.
This tool reads all of it back out in plain language, so you can check a file's actual history before you trust it, reuse it, or pass it on.
How this reads a photo without changing it
The file's structure is walked in your browser, the same byte-level EXIF and XMP parsing this site's metadata remover uses, and the tags found are decoded into the readout on this page. Nothing about the file itself is touched.
Unlike the metadata remover, there is nothing to strip here. The file you get back, if you choose to download it, is byte-for-byte identical to the one you dropped. This tool exists purely to show you what is already there.
What gets shown
Camera make, model and lens, when present. Exposure settings, aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focal length. Capture and modification timestamps. GPS coordinates and altitude, if the file carries them. Software or app last used to edit the file. Author, artist and copyright fields.
If a tag is not present in the file, it is simply left off the readout rather than shown as empty, so what you see is exactly what the file carries, nothing invented.
Nothing is uploaded
The file never leaves your device. It is read by the browser tab and the tags are decoded in memory, there is no server involved at any point.
You can check this yourself: load this page, disconnect from the internet, and read a photo's metadata anyway, it still works, because everything needed is already in the tab.
When you'd use this
Checking which camera settings actually produced a shot you liked, so you can repeat them. Verifying a photo's real capture date before you trust it, useful for a dispute or a marketplace listing where freshness matters. Confirming a platform, or you, already stripped a file's metadata before posting it somewhere that expects clean files. Checking a downloaded image's copyright or author field before you reuse it.
Quick questions
What file types can this read?
JPG, PNG, HEIC, AVIF and WebP. That covers every format phones and modern cameras actually write EXIF into. GIF, BMP, ICO and SVG don't have a standard place to carry this kind of data, so there's nothing to read from them.
Does this change my photo?
No. This only reads the file. If you download it back, it is byte-for-byte identical to the one you dropped.
Is my photo uploaded to read its metadata?
No. Everything happens in your browser. Disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works.
Will it show GPS coordinates?
Yes, if the file carries them. Latitude, longitude and altitude are decoded and shown along with the rest of the tags.
Can I check several photos at once?
Yes, up to 200 per batch.
Why does the copyright field matter?
Some photos carry an author or copyright tag from the camera or the software that last edited them. Checking it before you reuse a downloaded image can save you from an easily avoidable dispute.
How is this different from the metadata remover?
This tool only reads and reports what a file already carries. The metadata remover does that too, then strips it out. Use this one to inspect, that one to clean.
Converters
Start here if your files still need converting before you use this tool.