Free tool

Photo metadata checker

See what is really inside a photo: GPS location, title, description and keywords. We also tell you what a local-SEO photo is still missing.

Found something missing? Add it in the Geotagr editor.

What the checker shows

For every photo you drop in, you get a report in two parts. The first is a short checklist of the fields that describe where a photo was taken and what it shows, scored as passed, worth a look or missing. The second, under What is embedded, lists the values the file actually contains: title, subject, description, author, copyright, business name, website, phone, address, city, region and country, latitude, longitude, altitude, camera direction, the date taken, the camera make and model, and the software that last saved the file. Keywords are shown as a list, one chip per keyword, exactly as they are stored.

How to read the checklist

GPS location

Passes when the photo has valid latitude and longitude. The coordinates are shown, with a link that opens them in Google Maps. A fail means there is no position at all, not that the position is wrong; use the map link to check it is where you expect.

Title

Passes when any of the common title fields has text. Windows, Adobe software and stock agencies store a title in slightly different places, and the checker reads all of the usual ones.

Description

Fails when empty and warns under 25 characters, which is rarely enough to say what a photo shows. It also warns over 1,300 characters, because many tools cut long captions short.

Keywords

Fails with none. Warns with fewer than three, which seldom covers both the subject and the place, and with more than 25, because long lists of loosely related terms read as spam. Ten to twenty accurate keywords is a comfortable range.

Place name

Coordinates are numbers; a city, region or country written next to them makes the location readable by people and by software that does not convert coordinates. A warning means none was found.

Owner details

Looks for a business name, an author or a copyright notice. Without one, nobody who receives the file can tell who took it or who it belongs to.

The checklist is a guide to complete, useful metadata, not a score that any search engine uses. A photo that passes every row is well described; it is not guaranteed to rank or to keep its metadata once a website or app processes it.

Why a field can be missing

• The camera app's location setting was off, so no GPS was recorded in the first place.
• The photo was saved from a messaging or social app. Most of them remove location and other metadata when they compress a photo.
• It is a screenshot, or an editing app exported a new copy without carrying the metadata across.
• Nobody ever filled the field in. Title, description and keywords are almost always empty in photos straight from a phone.

Private by design

The checker uses the same reader as the Geotagr editor, running inside this browser tab. Your photo is opened from your device and is not sent to our servers or anyone else. The only thing that leaves the page is the map link, and only if you click it: it sends the coordinates to Google Maps, not the photo.

Frequently asked questions