Is This Photo Edited?

Drop the photo onto this page and its metadata is analysed for editing traces: software tags left by tools like Photoshop or Lightroom, modification dates later than the capture date, and missing camera fields. It is a strong indicator, though not absolute proof, of what happened to the file.

It detects AI markers that generators write into metadata, including the IPTC DigitalSourceType tag for trained algorithmic media that tools like DALL-E and Adobe Firefly use, and software tags naming a generator. Many AI images have these markers stripped, so a clean result does not guarantee a real photo.

No. Metadata is evidence, not proof — it can be removed or edited. A photo with camera fields, matching dates, and no software traces is consistent with an unedited original, but a determined faker can forge that. For high-stakes verification, combine metadata with pixel-level forensics and source checking.

Software tags (Photoshop, Lightroom, GIMP, Snapseed and others), a modified date later than the date taken, AI-generation markers, missing camera information on a file that claims to be a photo, and re-save patterns. Each finding is shown with an explanation.

Usually yes in metadata terms: most tools that crop, resize, or export a photo write their software tag and update the modification date, which this checker reports. Simple viewing or copying a file does not change metadata.

No. The analysis runs entirely in your browser, on your own device. The photo is never sent to a server, stored, or shared.

Screenshots and social-media downloads carry little or no metadata, so there is nothing to analyse — the checker reports that honestly rather than guessing. Only an original file can carry the evidence this tool reads.

It is the industry-standard metadata field for declaring how an image was created. The value trainedAlgorithmicMedia means the image was generated by AI. Responsible AI tools such as DALL-E and Adobe Firefly write it; this checker reads it.

Yes — open the same photo in the full EXIF metadata viewer on this site to inspect every tag: camera, dates, software, GPS, and more.

Yes, completely free, no account, no upload. For viewing and editing metadata on iPhone and iPad, the EXIF Viewer by Fluntro app is a one-time purchase.