Image metadata editor

Quick start

1. Add a photo. Drop it anywhere on the page or click the box. Several photos work too: they appear in a strip, and you edit one at a time or all at once.
2. Edit the fields. Each field shows what the photo already has. Type a new value, pick one from a list, or press × to remove it. Changed fields are highlighted, and the panel beside the form lists every change.
3. Check the other tags. Other tags in this file lists everything the standard fields don't cover, such as the color space or lens details your camera added. They are kept as they are unless you remove them one by one.
4. Download. Download edited photo saves a copy with -edited added to its name, so your original is never overwritten. With several photos, Download all as ZIP saves them together.

Want to see every field first, including XMP and AI generation data? Open the photo in the Image Metadata Viewer. Want to strip everything before sharing? The Image Metadata Remover does that in one step.

The fields you can edit

The editor offers 35 standard EXIF fields in seven groups. Empty fields are simply not written, so you only add what you fill in.

Why the picture itself does not change

The editor never decodes or redraws your photo. It reads the file's blocks, builds a new EXIF block with your changes, and writes the file back with every other block copied byte for byte: the compressed picture data, the color profile, a PNG's transparency, the frames of an animated WebP. A JPEG is not compressed a second time, so there is no quality loss, however many times you edit it.

We tested this on 208 files, phone photos and AI pictures in all three formats. Every tag we did not edit came back byte for byte, every edited field read back correctly in two independent programs (Pillow and ImageMagick), and every edited file decoded to exactly the same pixels as the original.

Camera maker notes and the preview picture

Many camera and phone photos carry two extra things inside their EXIF block:

• A preview picture, a small JPEG copy that some viewers show before the full picture loads. Your edits do not change it. You can drop it with the option in the side panel. If an edit makes the EXIF block bigger than a JPEG allows (64 KB), the preview is left out automatically and the page says so.
• Maker notes, a block of camera-specific data such as focus points, firmware and often a serial number. It is kept byte for byte, unless you untick it. Some camera brands store positions inside it, counted from the start of the EXIF block, so the editor keeps the maker notes at the exact position they had. In our test files that worked for all 26 photos that had them.

When another app still shows the old value

EXIF is not the only place a photo can store a title, a caption, keywords or a creator. Editors such as Lightroom also write XMP, and older software writes IPTC. When a photo has both, apps don't agree on which one they show: some prefer the XMP value, some the EXIF one, and Windows has its own order. When a photo has XMP or IPTC, the side panel offers to remove it, so your EXIF values are the only ones left. The editor does not edit XMP or IPTC itself.

Some PNG files keep their EXIF in an old-style text chunk instead of the standard one. The editor reads that copy, and the edited file stores the EXIF in the standard chunk only, so no stale copy is left behind.

Editing several photos at once

Add several photos and tick Change all photos at once. From then on, every field you change is set on all of them, while each photo keeps its own values in the fields you leave alone. That is the quick way to put your name and a copyright line on a whole set, or to remove the location from all of them. The rotation tag and other per-photo details are best set one photo at a time.

Limits

• Formats. JPEG, PNG and WebP only. HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, GIF, BMP and camera raw files can't be edited here. Convert them to JPEG or PNG first with the Image Converter, which re-encodes the picture.
• Accents and symbols in some fields. The EXIF standard defines description, artist, copyright, camera and software as plain ASCII text. The editor saves other characters there, such as é or ©, as UTF-8, which most programs read correctly; a few show them as two odd characters. The Windows fields (title, keywords, subject, comments, authors) store any language.
• No time shifting. You can set any date, but the editor can't move every photo's time by an hour to fix a camera clock. With several photos it sets the same date on all.
• Metadata is not proof. Anyone can change EXIF, as this page shows. A date, a place or an author in a file is a claim, not evidence.

Our guide to EXIF data explains what each part of the metadata means and who can read it, and the guide on removing location data from photos covers the privacy side.