Easily read, write and edit meta information for images, audio and video files

ExifTool for Mac

ExifTool for Mac

  -  4.93 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    ExifTool 13.04 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-13.04.pkg

  • MD5 Checksum

    1a906bd52374a98d220edbcc3784a316

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

What's new in this version:

- Added the ability to write GPSDOP and GPSMeasureMode from the -geotag option if hdop or pdop information exists in the input track file
- Added a few new Canon RFLensTypes
- Decode timed GPS from GoPro Hero 13 videos
- Improved writing of GPSDestLatitudeRef and GPSDestLongitudeRef tags to allow signed numbers to be written in the same way as GPSLatitudeRef and GPSLongitudeRef
- Warn if using an Image::ExifTool library that doesn't match the application version
- Renamed an Unknown Photoshop tag
- Convert GoPro GPSSpeed and GPSSpeed3D from m/s to km/h
- Patched to tolerate XML header in DOCX xml files
- Fixed incorrect file offsets for tags in some embedded files of -htmldump output
- Fixed -htmldump output to show the same names for unknown EXIF tags as with the -u option