Export photo EXIF data to Excel, then share copies without it
Photos carry more than the picture: the phone or camera, lens and exposure settings, the moment they were taken and, often, the exact place. A photographer may want those details in a spreadsheet to log a shoot; anyone posting or sending photos to strangers may want them gone. This recipe does both from the same files. One branch reads every photo and writes one Excel row per photo with camera, aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length, date taken, size and GPS coordinates. The other branch removes the metadata and gives you clean copies to share. Everything runs on your device.
The workflow
You addUp to 20 photos (JPG, HEIC, PNG, WebP and more)
Branch 1
EXIF Viewer
Excel workbook, one row per photo
One table makes it easy to see which photos have a location, sort a shoot by time or compare settings. Aperture, ISO, focal length, size and coordinates are stored as numbers, so Excel can sort and filter them.
Branch 2 · from the same files
Remove Image Metadata
Remove metadata, keep the colour profile
Removes location, camera and lens, serial numbers, dates, names and editing software. JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF are rewritten without re-encoding, so every pixel stays the same; the colour profile is kept so colours look as before.
You getOne .xlsx with a row per photo, plus a cleaned copy of each photo
What the spreadsheet contains
Each row holds the file name, camera, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, exposure bias, flash, date taken, width and height, latitude, longitude and altitude, and the software that last saved the file. A photo without EXIF still gets a row with its name and size, which is useful in itself: screenshots and images saved from websites or messaging apps usually carry nothing.
The report reads the original files. The second branch also starts from the originals, so the clean copies are made independently and the report still shows what the originals contained.
How to use the workflow
- Select Open this workflow, then add your photos in the Input pane.
- Select Run workflow.
- Download the .xlsx from EXIF Viewer and the cleaned photos from Remove Image Metadata, or use Download all.
Variations
- Prefer CSV for another tool, or JSON for a script? Open the EXIF Viewer step and change Save as.
- Only need the report? Remove the second branch.
- Want to look at a few photos instead of exporting? Open EXIF Viewer on its own, which shows each photo's details and every EXIF tag.
Questions
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Reading, reporting and cleaning happen in your browser.
Why is a photo's row nearly empty?
The file has no EXIF. Apps and websites often remove it, and screenshots never have camera details.
Does removing metadata change the picture?
Not for JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF: the file is rewritten without its metadata and the picture data is copied unchanged. HEIC, AVIF and other formats are saved again as JPG or PNG, which has no metadata.