While working on my photo apps and libraries (like Thumbnail Fixer Pro), I often needed to inspect image files to verify that everything was correctly updated.
The excellent ExifTool by Phil Harvey offers a powerful HTML dump option, but it requires a local installation and command-line usage. Over time, that started to feel tedious, and I found myself wishing for a simple tool where I could just drag and drop images for immediate inspection.
Most online tools rely on uploading your files with a promise to delete them later. I wanted something I could fully trust, which meant a completely local, open-source solution running in the browser.
So I built one.
About EXIF Viewer on Product Hunt
“Dive into image metadata, all the way down to raw hex.”
EXIF Viewer was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #57 on the daily leaderboard. Inspect a wide range of image formats. Fully open source and runs entirely in your browser with no uploads or external processing.
On the analytics side, EXIF Viewer competes within Open Source, Photography, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 763.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how EXIF Viewer performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted EXIF Viewer?
EXIF Viewer was hunted by Stefan Oltmann. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of EXIF Viewer including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Stefan Oltmann
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While working on my photo apps and libraries (like Thumbnail Fixer Pro), I often needed to inspect image files to verify that everything was correctly updated.
The excellent ExifTool by Phil Harvey offers a powerful HTML dump option, but it requires a local installation and command-line usage. Over time, that started to feel tedious, and I found myself wishing for a simple tool where I could just drag and drop images for immediate inspection.
Most online tools rely on uploading your files with a promise to delete them later. I wanted something I could fully trust, which meant a completely local, open-source solution running in the browser.
So I built one.