Metadata editor
Read, edit and rewrite a photo's EXIF and metadata
Drop in a JPEG and this reads the metadata it carries, lets you change any field, and writes a new copy with your edits. The point is not vandalism: it is to show first-hand how easily a camera name, a timestamp or a GPS location can be planted, which is exactly why a matching tag proves nothing on its own.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your image is never uploaded or stored.
The editor works on JPEG files, the format that stores EXIF this way. A PNG, WebP, HEIC or screenshot does not carry writable EXIF, so there is nothing here to edit.
Edit any field below, then:
Your original file is untouched. Each button builds a new copy in your browser.
Why an editor is a forensics tool
A metadata viewer shows you what a photo claims about itself. An editor shows you how much that claim is worth. Every field here, the camera make and model, the date it was taken, the software that saved it, even the GPS coordinates, is just text and numbers written into the file by software, and any software can overwrite them. Backdating a photo, planting a location it was never near, or naming a camera that never took it are all a few keystrokes. Once you have done it once, you read metadata differently: as a story that has to be corroborated, not a fact.
What still gives a forgery away
Faking tags is easy, but faking a consistent set is harder. A planted timestamp often disagrees with the file's other dates, a swapped-in camera model rarely matches the exposure values or the image dimensions it would really produce, and re-saving through an editor usually stamps that editor into the Software field. Investigators lean on these disagreements, and on evidence that lives outside the tags, such as the actual pixels, compression history and provenance signals. For how far the tags can be trusted see can EXIF data be faked?, and to just read the tags without changing them use the metadata viewer.
Your file stays on your device
The photo is read, edited and re-saved entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and the new copy is generated locally when you click download. Close the tab and no trace remains.