Sound familiar?
Each of these can ruin an afternoon. ExifMate's feature list grew directly out of them.
Thousands of photos with wrong dates
Timezone shifts, a forgotten clock reset, a second-hand camera — one wrong setting and your date-based library is chaos.
Shift or set capture dates in bulk, and sync file timestamps to match.
Undated photos sink to the bottom forever
Scanned family photos and EXIF-less images never sort correctly in any album app.
Smart filename recognition (e.g. IMG_20230812_104530) writes missing dates back; RAW+JPG pairs cross-fill.
ExifTool is powerful; the CLI is not for everyone
Thirty tags means thirty pages of docs — and one typo can change something you didn't mean to touch.
A GUI covering all of ExifTool: arbitrary tag editor, templated batch rename, before/after diff highlighting.
Metadata tools almost never ship an undo
Wrong GPS, overwritten copyright — with most tools that's final; your only hope is a backup.
Our safety net: every operation is snapshotted to a local log — restore any step or whole batch, any time.
Mainstream EXIF tools are photo-only
Phone clips, drone footage, MP4/MOV metadata — a near-empty niche in the market.
Native viewing and batch editing for MP4 / MOV / MKV / MTS and a dozen more video formats.
Your photos carry your home coordinates
GPS and camera serial numbers travel inside every image you share.
Strip GPS and device serials in one click — or batch-write copyright and author info before delivery.
A complete toolbox built for bulk work
JPEG / PNG / GIF / BMP / TIFF / WebP / HEIC, major camera RAW (CR2/CR3/NEF/ARW/RAF/DNG…), and mainstream video formats.
See everything
Grouped tree view of all metadata; RAW embedded-JPEG preview and inline video playback; filename-recognition vs existing EXIF diff highlighting.
Edit fast, in bulk
Recursive folder import, parallel writes; batch-shift capture dates, camera/lens, GPS, copyright; write any ExifTool tag via the custom tag editor.
Undo anything
Every operation lands in a local SQLite log (hashes + before/after snapshots); restore single steps or whole batches with one click.
Video, natively
View and edit metadata for MP4 / MOV / M4V / MKV / WMV / FLV / MTS / MOD — a rare capability in this category.
Smart templates
Placeholder syntax ({Y4}{M2}{D2}_{h}{m}{s}) for recognition rules, multi-template ordered matching; batch rename auto-suffixes same-second shots.
Fully offline
Zero networking, zero accounts, zero telemetry — privacy by architecture, not promise. UI in English / 简体中文.
Free to start, one purchase to unlock
The Free Edition includes every feature and only caps how many files one batch may process. The Full Edition is a one-time purchase with free 1.x updates.
| Capability | Free$0 | Full EditionOne-time purchase |
|---|---|---|
| All features (view / repair / edit / rename / restore) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photo + RAW + video format support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operation history & one-click restore | ✓ | ✓ |
| Files per batch operation | ≤ 10 | Unlimited |
| 1.x updates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority support | — | ✓ |
* Pricing and purchase are handled on the Microsoft Store listing.