About us
A metadata tool that never asks for your photos.
ExifInfoViewer is a free EXIF viewer and EXIF remover built on one rule: a tool that inspects your photos has no business collecting them. Everything runs in your browser, on your device.
Why this exists
Photos carry more than they show. A single JPEG from a phone can hold the camera model, the exposure settings, the exact second the shutter opened and the GPS coordinates of the spot you were standing on. Most people never see any of it, and most people have no idea it travels with the file when they email it, list it for sale or post it to a forum.
The tools that existed to check this were mostly upload-based: to find out whether a photo was too revealing to share, you first had to share it with a stranger's server. That trade never made sense. Modern browsers can parse an image, read its EXIF blocks and rewrite the file without a byte leaving the machine, so that is how we built it.
What the site does
There are two tools, and they are two halves of the same idea.
- The EXIF viewer shows you everything a photo is carrying — camera and lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focal length, capture time, GPS location with an optional map, file details and the software that last touched it. You can copy it as text or export the full extraction as JSON.
- The EXIF remover strips that information back out. JPEG, PNG and WebP files are rewritten losslessly, so nothing is re-compressed and the image quality is untouched. Several files can be cleaned at once, and each result is re-scanned to confirm no metadata survived.
Both accept JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP and DNG files, and both work the same way on a phone as on a desktop.
How it works
The site is a static set of files — no application server, no database, no user accounts. When you choose a photo, the browser hands the page an in-memory reference to it. Parsing, display and rewriting all happen in that tab. Closing it is a complete deletion, because there was never a second copy anywhere else.
The one exception is deliberate and opt-in: if a photo has GPS coordinates and you choose to open the map, your browser fetches map tiles from OpenStreetMap. That is the only third party involved anywhere on the site, and it does not happen unless you click. The full detail is in our privacy policy.
Principles
Four rules the tools are held to.
The photo stays on your device
Every feature is built with the constraint that the file must never be transmitted. If something cannot be done in the browser, it does not ship.
No account, no limits, no watermark
There is nothing to sign up for and no quota to hit. The tools do the same thing on the first photo and the five hundredth.
Nothing that watches you
No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts, no cookies. Fonts are served from our own domain so the page does not phone anyone.
Say what the file really contains
Metadata is shown as it is written, grouped so it is readable, with empty groups hidden rather than padded out with blanks.
Who is behind it
ExifInfoViewer is an independent project, built and maintained by the people who use it. It is self-funded and free to use. There is no data to sell, no advertising to place and no upsell waiting at the end of the flow — which is why the tools can afford to never see your files.
If something reads wrong, a tag is decoded badly or a file type is not handled the way you expect, we would genuinely like to know. Write to frontendedy@gmail.com or use the contact page — bug reports from people with unusual cameras are how the parser gets better.