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METADATA · READ IN YOUR BROWSER

Image metadata viewer

See what a picture is telling everyone who receives it: the camera, the software, the date, whether it carries your location, and whether it carries content credentials. Read here, never uploaded.

FREE · NO ACCOUNT · NOTHING IS UPLOADED · JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF

Metadata reader

Everything below runs on your own machine. The file is parsed here, and no request leaves this page.

Read locally and never uploaded — which matters here more than anywhere: it would be absurd to learn that a file carries your location by sending it to a stranger.

WHY THIS ONE

What a file carries, and where that stops

A file can tell you what it was asked to carry, and that is worth reading properly. It cannot tell you whether a picture was made by a machine, and this page does not claim to.

It reads what is actually there

EXIF camera, lens, software and timestamps; the text chunks a PNG can hold, including the prompt some image tools write into the file; XMP packets. Presented as fields rather than a wall of hex, and only when the file really has them.

Content credentials, plainly

If a file carries a C2PA manifest — the signed provenance record a growing number of cameras and tools attach — the page says so. If it does not, the page says that instead, without dressing the silence up as a verdict.

And it says where it stops

No metadata is not evidence about how a picture was made. Every major platform strips it on upload, so the most common reason a file carries nothing is that somebody posted it. We build generation tools and disclose it; we are not going to pretend the reverse can be read off pixels.

PAST THE PAGE

Disclosure is easier when the file does it for you.

The honest way to answer whether something was generated is for the thing itself to say so. That is what content credentials are for, and it is the direction every serious platform is moving in.

  • Check what a file carries before you publish it — including whether it names your camera.
  • Strip what you did not mean to share by re-saving; most editors drop EXIF on export.
  • In many countries a new account gets 100 free starter credits, no card. Unused starter credits expire 72 hours after they are granted.

This page is free and needs no account. Generating images is a billed mode; the pricing page lists what an image costs.

How we label AI content

QUESTIONS

Metadata, answered

Is the metadata viewer free?

Yes, and there is no account. The file is parsed in your browser — no request is made and nothing is generated, so it costs us nothing to serve.

Is my image uploaded anywhere?

No, and on this page that is the entire point. The file is read into memory in the tab and parsed there. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, nothing is stored, and closing the tab is all the cleanup there is.

Can it tell me whether an image was made by AI?

No, and neither can anything else that claims to. What this page reads is what the file was asked to carry: if a generator wrote its name or its prompt into the file, you will see it, and if a camera or an editor attached a signed content-credentials manifest, you will see that too. An empty file tells you only that it is empty — most commonly because a platform stripped it on upload.

What are content credentials?

A signed record attached to a file saying where it came from and what was done to it, under the C2PA standard. It is cryptographic and tamper-evident, which makes a present manifest meaningful — but it is opt-in, so an absent one proves nothing at all.

Why does it matter if my photo has GPS in it?

Because a phone photograph often records exactly where it was taken, and sending the original file passes that on. Social platforms strip it, but a file sent by email, chat or cloud link usually arrives intact. Checking before you send is the whole reason this page reads it locally.

Why does my image show nothing at all?

Almost always because it has been through a platform. Uploading to a social network, a messaging app or many CMSes re-encodes the file and drops everything except the pixels. A screenshot starts empty too. It is a sign of where a picture has been rather than of what it is.

FILE READ

You know what it carries.Now decide what yours will.

Make the picture instead of inspecting one, and disclose it because you chose to rather than because a file gave you away.