ExifView is a single-purpose website: it reads the hidden metadata inside your photos — camera settings, timestamps, GPS coordinates, editing history — and shows it back to you, then produces a clean copy with all of it removed. Everything happens inside your browser; there is nothing to upload to.

Why this site exists

Two gaps motivated it. First, most online “EXIF viewers” begin by uploading your photo to a server — a strange price for reading a few hundred bytes of tags, and a real problem when the file contains your home coordinates. Second, the privacy angle is usually an afterthought: a wall of tag names with no indication of which ones actually matter. ExifView is built the other way round: no upload (the parser is JavaScript on your device) and privacy first (a “what this photo reveals” panel flags GPS, device serials, names and embedded thumbnails before the field list).

What the site covers

• The viewer: a from-scratch metadata parser — JPEG APP1/APP13 segments, PNG eXIf and text chunks, WebP EXIF/XMP chunks, full TIFF IFD traversal, GPS rational decoding — plus the one-click strip feature.
• What EXIF reveals — real cases: documented incidents where photo metadata caused real harm.
• How to strip metadata: built-in removal on Windows, macOS, iPhone, Android and the command line.
• GPS tags: the quiet leak: how geotagging works, how precise it is, and where it survives.

How it’s built and maintained

The site is a static set of pages on Cloudflare’s edge network — there is no image-processing backend. The parser is dependency-free JavaScript; you can read every line of it by viewing source. ExifView is maintained by a small independent team that builds focused utility sites. It is not affiliated with any camera maker, OS vendor or platform.

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