ExifTool for Mac

October, 19th 2024 - 4.9 MB - Freeware

Latest Version

ExifTool 12.99 LATEST
Review by

Sophia Jones
Operating System

Mac OS X 10.9 or later
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Author / Product

Phil Harvey / External Link
Filename

ExifTool-12.99.pkg
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bca456e5e6692e0f1ee530946d3383eb

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:

- Added -diff option to compare the metadata in two files
- Added a new Canon lens (thanks Norbert Wasser)
- Decode GPS from 70mai A810 dashcam videos
- Decode a new QuickTime tag
- Patched to recognize C2PA APP11 JUMBF header with incorrect byte order written by buggy Microsoft software
- Patched to maintain order of entries in a JSON object when reading
- Patched to maintain order of CSV columns when setting tags from a CSV file
- Patched to maintain order of XMP lang-alt entries when writing/copying
- Fixed typo in an APP12 tag name

API Changes:
- Structured values returned as HASH references with the Struct option may contain a new "_ordered_keys_" entry used to preserve the order of the entries
- Added the OrderedKeys method to return the ordered or sorted keys from a returned structure value