ExifTool
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 21, 2025first mention
Jun 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“rely on ExifTool (which people should donate to!)”
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“there is exiftool which tries to understand all those different formats”
“I love ExifTool. It’s one of the great utilities.”
former metadata completioniston “EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-o…”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth 2 mentions
- EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-orientation: from-image 2 mentions
- Appreciating Exif 1 mention
- Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) 1 mention
- Filesystems Are Having a Moment 1 mention
- My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition) 1 mention
Also written as exiftool. Data: exiftool.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“Exiftool handles pretty much all of that.”
“EXIF GPS via exiftool”
Before Lightroom it might have looked closer to this: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e000193~large.jpg
“Looking at the EXIF (with exiftool)”
“I have used this approach with exiftool to add custom tags”
“rely on ExifTool (which people should donate to!)”
“I use exiftool to rename the files from IMG_0123.HEIC to the date the image or video was taken”
“I ran exiftool on an image I just generated”
“there is exiftool which tries to understand all those different formats”
“I love ExifTool. It’s one of the great utilities.”