About the free image metadata viewer
Every photo carries a second, invisible layer of information. Cameras and phones write EXIF fields for the device model, exposure settings, capture time, and often the exact GPS coordinates of the shot. Editing software adds XMP records of what was changed and with which tools. This viewer reads all of it and lays it out in a plain table, and it does so entirely in your browser: the image is parsed on your own device, so checking a sensitive photo does not mean handing it to a stranger's server. That is also why there are no usage limits and no account.
Read the prompt inside AI-generated images
AI image generators hide their settings in a place classic EXIF tools ignore: PNG text chunks. Stable Diffusion WebUI writes the full prompt, negative prompt, seed, and sampler there, ComfyUI embeds its entire workflow graph, and other generators store similar records. This viewer decodes those chunks, including the compressed ones, and shows them with a copy button, so you can recover the prompt from an image you generated months ago or study how a shared image was made. If an image has no embedded prompt, the free AI image captioning tool can generate a description of it from the pixels instead.
GPS data and your privacy
The single most sensitive field in photo metadata is location. Phones embed GPS coordinates by default, and a photo taken at home pins your address into every copy of the file. When this viewer finds coordinates it flags them clearly and links them to a map so you can see exactly what a recipient could learn. Marketplaces, forums, and messaging apps do not reliably strip this data, so before selling something photographed in your living room or posting from a private place, check the file here, and then run it through the free image metadata remover to strip everything in one click without touching the pixels.
What it reads, formats, and limits
The viewer parses EXIF, XMP, IPTC, and JFIF segments plus PNG text chunks, and accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, and HEIC files. It reads iPhone HEIC metadata in every browser, even where the browser cannot display the image itself; in that case the pixel dimensions show as unknown while the metadata report stays complete. Files of any size work because nothing is uploaded, and screenshots or exports from apps that already strip metadata will correctly report as clean. The report is read-only: nothing is modified until you deliberately use the remover tool.