Exif Reader is an application that you can use to find out the EXIF information on image files.

This is a portable product, so installing Exif Reader is not necessary. You can simply place it on a removable device and directly run the executable file on any computer. More importantly, your Windows registry entries will not be changed.

The interface of the program is plain and simple. You can import a picture by using the file browser or the "drag and drop" method.

You can preview the thumbnail, view the full picture and zoom in and out of it, as well as go to the next or previous file (from the same directory).

In the list you can view information for each item, including main, sub and thumbnail information.

So, you can check out comments, date and time of creation, artist name, original and digitized date and time, compression, x resolution, y resolution, as well as JPEG interchange format and format length.

But you can also find out about the Adobe Resources (e.g. copyright flag), record version, photographer, copyright info, subsec original and digitized time, exposure time and program, ISO speed ratings, shutter speed, brightness and exposure bias value, metering mode, light source, and more.

Furthermore, you can copy selected information, all item names or all information, as well as save as text document, CSV text or thumbnail.

The program uses a low-to-moderate amount of system resources and didn't freeze, crash or pop up errors during our tests. However, there is no help file at your disposal and this can be inconvenient if you are a first-time user.

All in all, ExifReader is a good program for finding out the EXIF information of image files, but advanced graphic editing tools usually have this feature incorporated.