Finds what a photo gives away
The scan lists GPS coordinates, the camera or phone model and serial number, capture dates, author and copyright fields, editing software, and AI prompts or workflow text when they are present.
Scan before you share
Free Metadata Scanner: Scan Photos for Hidden EXIF, GPS & AI Data
Scan a photo for hidden data before you post, send, or sell it. This metadata scanner looks through supported EXIF, GPS, camera, author, XMP, IPTC, C2PA, and AI workflow fields and lists what it finds, all inside your browser. The file is never uploaded and never changed.
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What happens locally
A readable report, not a black box.
Nothing leaves your device
The scan runs in the current browser tab. File bytes, coordinates, and field values are not sent to AI MetaClean or an analytics service, and the original file stays byte-for-byte unchanged.
Scan first, clean if you choose
Scanning only reports. If the scan finds something you do not want to share, open the metadata remover to make a cleaned copy, then scan that copy again to confirm.
Important limit
The scan covers supported standard structures in JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, and HEIF. A malformed file or a proprietary application-specific block may hold data this version cannot decode, so a scan with no findings is not a forensic guarantee. It also cannot see visual clues in the picture itself, such as a street sign, or pixel-level signals such as SynthID.
Questions & boundaries
Know exactly what the report means.
File formats are messy. These answers describe the supported behavior of this version—not a promise that every trace everywhere has disappeared.
01What does a metadata scanner do?+
It reads the hidden data stored inside a file and shows it to you: camera model, capture time, GPS location, author, editing software, and AI generation details. This scanner does that for photos in your browser, so you see what you would be sharing before you post the file.
02How do I scan a photo for hidden metadata?+
Choose a JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, or HEIF file on this page. The browser reads the file locally and lists the supported fields it finds, with their values. Check the location and device fields first, because those identify people most often.
03Does the scanner upload my photo?+
No. The file is parsed by JavaScript in your browser tab. Neither the image nor the metadata values are sent to a server, and the scan does not change the original file.
04What is the difference between the scanner and the metadata viewer?+
They use the same read-only engine. This page is framed around checking a photo for privacy risks before you share it; the metadata viewer page is a general reference for reading every supported field. Both leave the file unchanged.
05The scan found metadata. What now?+
Open the metadata remover or the EXIF remover to download a cleaned copy, then scan the cleaned copy to confirm the fields are gone. For sensitive work, check it with a second independent tool as well.
06Why did the scanner find nothing?+
The file may already be clean, the app that exported it may have removed the metadata, or the data may sit in a structure this version does not support. An empty result is not proof that nothing is hidden.
Guides and comparisons
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