EXIF Viewer
Every photo carries a hidden record of how it was made — the camera, the lens, the exact second it was taken, sometimes the coordinates. Drop a file below and read it. No account, no storage, nothing sent anywhere.
What is actually inside a photo
EXIF is written by the camera and updated by every program that touches the file. It is the closest thing a picture has to a paper trail — and it is readable in seconds.
Camera and lens
Make, model and often the exact lens. A photo claiming to be shot on a professional camera while the metadata names a phone tells you something.
When it was taken
Capture time and last-modified time are stored separately. When they differ, the file was edited or re-saved after shooting.
Where it was taken
Many phones write GPS coordinates into the file. If we find them, we show them on a map — which is also a reminder to strip them before posting publicly.
Which software touched it
Photoshop, Lightroom, or a generator's own signature. Some AI tools write themselves into the Software field outright.
Exposure settings
Shutter, aperture, ISO, focal length. Real photographs carry a coherent set; generated images typically carry none at all.
What is missing
Absence is information too, but weaker than people assume: messengers and social platforms strip metadata from everything. Missing EXIF is normal, not damning.
How to read the result
Camera fields present
A named capture device, coherent exposure settings and a capture date point towards a real photograph. These fields can be forged, so treat them as supporting evidence rather than proof.
A generator named in Software
Some AI tools write their own name into the file. That is about as direct as metadata evidence gets — though it is trivially removable, so its absence means nothing.
Nothing at all
The most common outcome, and the least conclusive. Anything that travelled through WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram or a screenshot arrives stripped. At that point metadata is exhausted and you need pixel-level analysis instead.
What people use this for
- Checking a photo's origin — Camera, date and software in one look.
- Removing location before posting — See what you would be publishing about where you live.
- Verifying a claim — “Taken yesterday” against the actual capture date.
- Photography — Reading the settings behind a shot you like.
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