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An EXIF viewer answers a simple question: what does this photo secretly say about you? Drop a JPEG or PNG into GhostMeta and it decodes the EXIF block in your browser, laying out every field the camera recorded — make and model, lens, ISO, aperture and shutter, orientation, the exact capture timestamp, and, when present, the GPS latitude and longitude, which GhostMeta plots so you can see the location on a map. IPTC and XMP fields are shown too, revealing author names, copyright and editing software that photographers often forget are attached. Sensitive fields like GPS are flagged so the risk is obvious at a glance. Nothing is uploaded — the parsing happens entirely on your device, which means you can safely inspect private or client photos. And because GhostMeta is also a cleaner, the moment you have seen what a picture exposes, one click strips every field and gives you a copy that reveals nothing.
Drop an image to see what it actually contains: GPS coordinates, camera model, serial number, dates, editing software. Each field is graded critical, warning or harmless according to what it lets someone infer. Reading is local, no image is transmitted, and you can then clean the file from the same page.
An EXIF viewer exists first to let you see. Many people discover on this occasion that their photos carry a GPS position, because location permission was granted once to the camera app and never revisited.
GhostMeta lists the fields it finds and sorts them into three levels: critical, warning, harmless. The sorting is based on what a field lets someone infer, not on its name. A date alone is a warning; that same date paired with a camera serial number becomes a durable identifier.
On a JPEG from a camera or a smartphone, expect the full EXIF set, including the GPS IFD if location was on. On a PNG produced by an image generator, EXIF is usually absent and replaced by tEXt or iTXt text chunks holding the prompt, the seed and the model name.
On a screenshot, often only dimensions and a colour space remain. On an image that has already been through a social network, most fields are gone — though not always the XMP. Reading is local: the file is not uploaded to be analysed.
One reading habit helps more than any tool: check a file before sending it, not after. Once an image has left, through a message, a form or an upload, whatever it carried has already been delivered. Reading takes a few seconds and it is the only step that happens while you can still change your mind.
The viewer is as useful on photos you receive as on your own. On an image from a stranger, the fields present tell you where it came from: a camera, a phone, a screenshot, or a generated render.
An image with no fields at all is not suspicious in itself: most social networks clean on upload. It is the combination that informs, for instance a recent timestamp paired with an editing tool.
Make it a reflex on anything you are about to forward: a file you did not create can carry the metadata of whoever did, and passing it on passes that along with it.
| Level | Example fields | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | GPS IFD, SerialNumber, LensSerialNumber | Locates or durably identifies |
| Warning | DateTimeOriginal, Software, Artist, Copyright | Places in time or names an author |
| Harmless | ExposureTime, FNumber, ISO, Orientation | Describes the shot, nothing personal |
Camera make and model, lens, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, orientation, capture date and time, and GPS coordinates when present — plus IPTC and XMP fields like author and copyright.
Yes. When a GPS tag is present in the EXIF, GhostMeta reads the coordinates and plots them so you can see exactly where the photo was taken.
No. The EXIF is parsed locally in your browser. The image never leaves your device, so inspecting private or client photos is safe.
JPEG and PNG directly, HEIC after in-browser conversion, and WebP. JPEG carries EXIF most often; PNG stores comparable data in text and eXIf chunks.
Yes. GhostMeta is a viewer and a cleaner in one: after you inspect the fields, a single click strips them all and produces a metadata-free copy.
Yes, viewing a photo's EXIF is free with no account. Batch inspection and cleaning are Premium conveniences.