EXIF Editor
Sometimes the diary inside a photo is wrong — a camera clock that was never set, a missing copyright line, a location that needs correcting. Fix the date, description, artist, copyright and GPS here, and save a copy that carries the new values. Nothing is uploaded; the editing happens on your device.
Drop a JPEG photo to edit its EXIF data
JPEG only · the file never leaves your device
How it works: surgery on the file, not a conversion
This editor does not open your photo, redraw it and save it again. It reads the file's EXIF block, changes the fields you edited, and writes the new metadata into the original file's bytes in place of the old block — the compressed image data is copied byte for byte and is never decoded or re-encoded. That means no quality loss, no change in sharpness or colour, and no surprise resize: the picture in the saved copy is exactly the picture in the original, with a corrected diary attached. It is the same surgical approach the EXIF Viewer & Remover uses in reverse — that tool takes metadata out, this one puts the right metadata in.
What you might fix
The most common repair is the date. Travel across time zones, forget to set a new camera's clock, or scan a batch of older files, and every photo lands with the wrong day or hour — which then sorts wrong in every album and archive. Correcting the date taken here puts the photo back where it belongs in your timeline. The other fields earn their keep just as quietly: a copyright line and artist name are your plain-text proof of authorship travelling inside the file itself, a description becomes the caption a client or archive reads first, and GPS can be added for a photo whose camera had no signal, corrected when it drifted — or cleared entirely before a photo taken somewhere private is shared. If you are reviewing what settings a photo was taken with before you edit it, the settings themselves are the story of ISO, shutter speed and aperture written into the same EXIF block.
Why JPEG only — honestly
EXIF lives inside JPEG files; that is the format cameras write it to and the format this editor can safely operate on. PNG, WebP and HEIC carry metadata differently, and pretending one editor handles them all equally well would mean quietly re-encoding some of your photos. So this tool refuses non-JPEG files rather than converting them behind your back. If your photo is in another format, the EXIF Viewer & Remover will still inspect it and hand you a clean copy with its metadata removed — and if you simply need a JPEG, convert a copy first and edit the copy, keeping your original as the archive master.
Frequently asked questions
Will editing EXIF cost me image quality?
No. The new metadata is written into the original file's bytes and the image is never re-encoded, so the pixels are untouched — the saved copy looks identical to the original because, as a picture, it is identical. Only the EXIF block changes.
Why does the editor only accept JPEG files?
Because EXIF is a JPEG format in practice: it is where cameras store it and where it can be rewritten without touching the picture. Other formats store metadata in different structures, and the honest way to handle them is the dedicated route — the EXIF Viewer & Remover reads JPEG, PNG and WebP files and strips their metadata.
Is my other metadata kept?
Yes. The editor starts from the file's existing EXIF, so fields you do not touch — camera and lens details, exposure settings, and the rest of the block — are carried over into the saved copy unchanged. Only the date, description, artist, copyright and GPS fields you see in the form are written, and clearing one of those fields removes just that value.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The file is read, edited and saved entirely in your browser, on your device — nothing is sent to a server, and there is no copy of your photo anywhere but where you put it. Load this page, go offline, and the editor still works.