ExifTool for Mac

April, 9th 2025 - 5.03 MB - Freeware

Latest Version

ExifTool 13.27 LATEST
Review by

Sophia Jones
Operating System

Mac OS X 10.9 or later
User Rating

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Author / Product

Phil Harvey / External Link
Filename

ExifTool-13.27.pkg
MD5 Checksum

ec171e21c728e9f806bf1d2ad41461ce

ExifTool for Mac is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing, and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

Exif Tool for macOS supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, GoPro, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon, and Sony.

ExifTool for Mac can Read, Write and/or Create files in the following formats. Also listed are the support levels for EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ICC_Profile, and other metadata types for each file format.

Features and Highlights

Powerful, fast, flexible, and customizable
Supports a large number of different file formats
Reads EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, ID3, and more...
Writes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, AFCP, and more...
Reads and writes maker notes of many digital cameras
Reads timed metadata (eg. GPS track) from MOV/MP4/M2TS/AVI videos
Numerous output formatting options (including tab-delimited, HTML, XML and JSON)
Multi-lingual output (cs, de, en, en-ca, en-gb, es, fi, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, tr, zh-cn or zh-tw)
Geotags images from GPS track log files (with time drift correction!)
Generates track logs from geotagged images
Shifts date/time values to fix timestamps in images
Renames files and organizes in directories (by date or by any other meta information)
Extracts thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images from RAW files
Copies meta information between files (even different-format files)
Reads/writes structured XMP information
Deletes meta-information individually, in groups, or all together
Sets the file modification date (and creation date in Mac and Windows) from EXIF information
Supports alternate language tags in XMP, PNG, ID3, Font, QuickTime, ICC Profile, MIE, and MXF information
Processes entire directory trees
Creates a text output file for each image file
Creates binary-format metadata-only (MIE, EXV) files for metadata backup
Automatically backs up original image when writing
Organizes output into groups
Conditionally processes files based on the value of any meta information
Ability to add custom user-defined tags
Support for MWG (Metadata Working Group) recommendations
Recognizes thousands of different tags
Tested with images from thousands of different camera models
Advanced verbose and HTML-based hex dump outputs

Also Available: Download ExifTool for Windows

Download ExifTool for Mac Latest Version

What's new in this version:

- Decode AF points for the Pentax K-3III
- Decode timed GPS from a variant of the Rove R2-4K dashcam
- Properly decode SensorTemperature for Pentax K3-III
- Patched PCAP test to avoid potential failure
- Patched to avoid potential "not a HASH reference" error when writing MOV/MP4 videos
- Fixed issue which could result in "uninitialized value" errors when reading one type of timed GPS from MP4 videos
- Fixed problem writing MotionPhotoVideo in MP4 files