ExifToolGui: Platforms & Versions

Where ExifToolGui runs, where it honestly does not, and which versions of the GUI and of ExifTool belong together.

Windows is home; other platforms get honest answers

The guides below cover Windows 11 and Windows 10 in depth, the Linux situation as it actually is, the V5-to-V6 story, what changed in V6.3.12, and the ExifTool version question every setup has to answer.

Platform honesty is this hub’s whole job, because the confusion is understandable. ExifTool itself is genuinely cross-platform — a Perl library and command-line application that runs wherever Perl runs, with an official macOS package. ExifToolGui is not ExifTool: it is a Windows program, in both its original form by Bogdan Hrastnik and its maintained V6 fork by Frank Bijnen. The V6 documentation states that the GUI should run on Windows 7 and 8 (32- and 64-bit) and that Windows 10 or 11 is highly recommended. There is no macOS build and no Linux build of this GUI, and no setting changes that.

All platform and version guides

The two version numbers to keep straight

The version question deserves its own sentence because this site keeps it precise everywhere: for ExifToolGui, the current release is V6.3.12, updated May 8, 2026. For ExifTool, the latest release overall is 13.59 (May 27, 2026), while the latest production release is 13.55 (April 7, 2026) — versions 13.56 to 13.59 are development releases. The pairing guide above explains which one to choose and why the distinction exists; the download page links the files themselves.

Two platform details inside Windows are worth knowing before you download anything. The V6.3.12 release ships separate portable builds — ExifToolGUI_X64.exe for 64-bit Windows and ExifToolGUI.exe for 32-bit Windows — and the installer chooses for you: on 64-bit Windows it installs the Win64 files by default, and passing the /Win32 switch forces the Win32 files instead. A 64-bit Windows runs either build; a 32-bit Windows runs only the 32-bit one. Optional components follow the same pattern of being tied to features rather than to the program as a whole: WebView2Loader.dll and the Microsoft Edge (WebView2) runtime are needed only for the OpenStreetMap map, and language DLLs, MAP files and the larger alternate GeoLocation database are optional extras. None of them changes the platform answer — Windows is required, the rest is configuration.

And a word on the original program, since older pages elsewhere blur it: Bogdan Hrastnik’s GUI is documented at exiftool.org/gui, where the first version, v1.00, was published on May 27, 2007, and the page’s footer dates from May 2012. This site does not repeat the unsourced claim that a particular 5.x number was ‘the final version’ — the documented story is that the original line belongs to that era, and development continued as the V6 fork.