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EXIF & Photo Metadata Viewer
Drop a photo and this EXIF viewer shows you everything hidden inside it: the camera and lens, the exposure settings, the date it was taken, the GPS location, edit history, and any markers that flag it as AI generated. It all reads in your browser, so your photo never leaves your device.
As a photo metadata viewer it goes past the basics. Fields are grouped so the important ones stand out, and an Everything else section lists every remaining tag with a search box, so you can view EXIF data online in full without digging through a wall of raw output. GPS coordinates are decoded to decimal degrees with a map link, and dates, software and copyright are pulled out where your camera or editing app stored them.
The AI check reads the things that actually mark an image: Content Credentials manifests, the IPTC source-type flag, known generator names, and the embedded prompts that Stable Diffusion tools like AUTOMATIC1111, ComfyUI and NovelAI leave behind, with one-click copy. When you want to act on what you find, imgi can remove metadata from a photo without re-encoding it, or answer where a photo was taken from its GPS tags.
Reading metadata locally matters because the file can hold private details, like the exact coordinates of your home. imgi keeps the whole thing on your machine and, for cleaning, changes only the metadata bytes so your image stays exactly as it was. Need to compare two versions of an edit instead? The image difference checker does that.
Common questions
01What is EXIF data?+
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a block of information your camera or phone writes inside a photo when it takes it. It records things like the camera make and model, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, the date and time, and often the GPS location. Photos also carry related metadata such as XMP (edit history from apps like Lightroom) and IPTC (captions and copyright). This EXIF viewer reads all of it and groups it so you can actually make sense of it.
02Are my photos uploaded when I view the metadata?+
No. The whole tool runs in your browser. Your photo is read on your own device with JavaScript, and no image bytes are ever sent to imgi or anywhere else. You can open the tool, then go offline, and it still works. That is the point of reading metadata locally: the file often contains private information like your home coordinates, so it should never have to leave your computer to be inspected.
03Does removing metadata reduce image quality?+
Not here. Many EXIF removers redraw the photo onto a canvas and re-save it, which re-compresses the image and loses quality. imgi strips the metadata out at the byte level and leaves the picture data untouched, so the result is pixel for pixel identical to the original. If you want to clean a file, open the Remove metadata from photos tool and download the cleaned copy.
04Can you tell where a photo was taken?+
If the photo still holds GPS coordinates, yes: the Location view turns them into decimal degrees and gives you a map link. Many photos have no GPS, because location was off or because a social network stripped it on upload. In that case the tool tells you honestly that there is no location stored, rather than guessing a place from what the image shows.
05How do I check if an image is AI generated?+
Open a photo and look at the AI check view. imgi reads the signals that generators and cameras actually write into a file: Content Credentials (C2PA) manifests, the IPTC DigitalSourceType marker, generator names in the Software field, and the prompt and settings that tools like AUTOMATIC1111, ComfyUI and NovelAI embed. Finding one of these is strong evidence an image is AI generated. Finding none does not prove a human made it, since metadata can be removed, but the tool shows you exactly what is and is not there.
06Which file formats can it read?+
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF, GIF and AVIF are all read for metadata. Cleaning a copy without re-encoding is supported for JPEG, PNG and WebP; for formats that cannot be stripped byte for byte in a browser, the tool shows the data as view only instead of quietly re-saving and degrading your image.
07What does the Everything else section show?+
Common fields are grouped under Camera, Date and time, and Software and edits. Everything else is the full raw list of every remaining tag found in the file, with a search box so you can jump to a specific field. Nothing is hidden or summarised away, so power users get the complete picture.