How to View Image EXIF Metadata Online for Free

Every photo carries a hidden layer of data. Your camera stamps in the exposure, lens, and timestamp. Your phone often adds the exact GPS coordinates where the shot was taken. AI image generators embed the full prompt and settings used to create the image. This metadata is invisible when you look at a picture, but it is right there in the file, and it can reveal far more than you expect. The first step to understanding, or protecting, that data is being able to read it.

Upsampler's Free Image Metadata Viewer reads all of it directly in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, there is no signup, and nothing is downloaded. Your photo is inspected locally, so even a sensitive image stays completely private while you examine what it contains.

What Metadata the Viewer Reveals

The tool parses several distinct layers of embedded data:

File summary

The basics: file name, file size, MIME type, and pixel dimensions.

GPS location

If the photo contains location data, the viewer shows the exact latitude and longitude to six decimal places, flags it with a warning, and gives you a direct link to see the spot on a map. This is the single most privacy-sensitive field in most photos, and it is often there without the photographer realizing.

AI generation data

For AI-generated images, the viewer decodes the text chunks that tools like Stable Diffusion WebUI, ComfyUI, and most other generators use to store the prompt, model settings, and full workflow. Each chunk gets a copy button, so you can lift the prompt out of an image to study or reuse it.

EXIF and embedded metadata

A full flattened table of EXIF, TIFF, XMP, IPTC, ICC, and JFIF entries, with a count of how many fields were found. This is where the camera make and model, lens, exposure settings, orientation, and timestamps live.

How to View an Image's Metadata

1. Open the Free Image Metadata Viewer in any modern browser.
2. Add your image by dragging it in, pasting with Ctrl+V, or clicking to browse. It accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, and HEIC.
3. Read the results. The viewer instantly displays the file summary, any GPS location, AI generation data, and the full EXIF table. There is nothing to download; it is a read-only inspection.

Why Use This Viewer?

It reads everything locally

Because the parsing happens in your browser, your photo is never uploaded. You can inspect confidential or personal images without exposing them to anyone.

It surfaces what matters first

Rather than dumping a raw wall of fields, the viewer highlights the GPS location and AI prompt data separately, since those are the entries people most often care about, then gives you the complete table underneath.

It reveals AI prompts

If you have ever wondered exactly how an AI image was made, this tool extracts the embedded prompt and settings when they are present, which is a genuinely useful way to learn prompting.

Found Something You Want to Remove?

Viewing metadata is often the first half of a privacy check. If you discover GPS coordinates or other data you would rather not share, the Free Image Metadata Remover strips it out losslessly, without touching your image quality. Together, the two tools let you see exactly what is in a file and then clean it before you post it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the metadata viewer free?

Yes, completely. No signup, no limit, and nothing to install.

Is my photo uploaded to read its metadata?

No. All parsing happens in your browser, so your image never leaves your device. It is a read-only inspection with nothing sent anywhere.

Can it show where a photo was taken?

Yes. If the photo contains GPS data, the viewer displays the exact coordinates and links to the location on a map.

Can it extract the prompt from an AI-generated image?

Yes. When an image contains embedded generation data, the viewer decodes the prompt, settings, and workflow from tools like Stable Diffusion WebUI and ComfyUI, with a copy button for each chunk.

Which image formats can I inspect?

You can load JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, and HEIC files.

Inspect Your Image Now

Curious what your photos are quietly carrying? Upsampler's Free Image Metadata Viewer shows you every hidden field, privately and in seconds.

Open the Free Image Metadata Viewer and inspect your first image for free.