EXIF Viewer — View & Remove Photo Metadata

Every photo from a digital camera or phone carries an invisible passenger: the EXIF block. It records the camera make and model, lens, exposure time, aperture, ISO, the exact date and second of the shot, the editing software used — and often the GPS coordinates of where you stood when you pressed the shutter. This tool reads all of it and shows it in a clean, human-readable report.

The parser works directly on the file's bytes in your browser: it walks the JPEG segment structure, finds the APP1 EXIF payload, decodes the TIFF header in either byte order and reads the IFD0, Exif and GPS directories tag by tag. PNG files are supported too — the tool reads their eXIf chunk and any tEXt comments. Nothing is uploaded to any server; the report exists only on your screen.

The second half of the tool is removal. Switch to remove mode and it rebuilds the file without its metadata: JPEG loses its APP1/APP2 segments (EXIF, XMP, ICC profile), PNG loses its text and eXIf chunks. Crucially, this is byte surgery, not re-saving — the compressed image data is copied verbatim, so there is zero generation loss and the pixels remain bit-for-bit identical.

Who needs this? Anyone selling items with photos on marketplaces, journalists and researchers verifying image provenance, photographers checking what settings produced a favorite shot, and everyone who shares pictures of their home, children or workplace and would prefer that files not broadcast a street-accurate location. Check the photo first, then download the clean copy — both take seconds and neither sends a single byte off your device.