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Image Metadata Viewer

About Image Metadata Viewer

Image Metadata Viewer is a small, independently maintained privacy tool for people who need to inspect image metadata before sharing or publishing files.

I maintain Image Metadata Viewer around a practical problem: photos often carry more information than the visible pixels show. A simple image can include GPS coordinates, capture time, camera and lens details, editing software, author fields, copyright text, serial numbers, and newer provenance signals. Many users only discover this after a file has already been shared. The goal of this site is to make metadata inspection understandable, local, and repeatable in a normal browser.

Maintainer notes

The maintainer focus is narrow: choose one image, analyze metadata in the browser, understand privacy risks, export JSON, and remove supported metadata without uploading the file. The site avoids promises that require a server-side parser or unvalidated browser behavior.

Current limits

The current limits are intentional. The first release works with one image at a time, prioritizes JPG, PNG, and WebP cleanup, and treats HEIC and TIFF cleanup as unavailable until reliable original-format browser cleanup is proven. It does not provide batch processing, CSV export, server uploads, format conversion, or C2PA authenticity verification.

Roadmap

The roadmap is to expand format confidence, add batch viewing and batch cleanup, improve CSV export, deepen AI/C2PA metadata detection, and keep the privacy model clear. New capabilities should preserve the core promise: image files stay local to the browser except for explicitly disclosed third-party services such as embedded maps.