Which ExifTool Version Should You Pair with ExifToolGui? ExifToolGui needs ExifTool — Phil Harvey’s command-line application and Perl library — paired beside it, and ExifTool’s version numbers contain a distinction most download pages flatten: as of this writing, the latest version overall is 13.59 (released May 27, 2026), while the latest production release is 13.55…
ExifToolGui V6.3.12: What’s New ExifToolGui V6.3.12 is the current release of Frank Bijnen’s maintained fork of Bogdan Hrastnik’s Windows front-end for ExifTool — released May 8, 2026, under GPL-3.0, on GitHub. This page is a faithful rundown of its release notes and nothing else: every item below comes from the V6.3.12 release itself, because a…
ExifToolGui V5 vs V6: Original vs Maintained Fork Two different programs share the name ExifToolGui, and telling them apart explains most version confusion around this software. V5 is the original: Bogdan Hrastnik’s Windows front-end for Phil Harvey’s ExifTool, documented on the GUI pages of exiftool.org. V6 is the maintained fork: Frank Bijnen’s continuation of Hrastnik’s…
ExifToolGui on Linux: No Native Build — Your Working Options Start with the honest answer: there is no Linux build of ExifToolGui. Not of Frank Bijnen’s maintained V6 fork, and not of Bogdan Hrastnik’s original. Both are Windows programs — the V6 documentation describes Windows 7/8 support and recommends Windows 10 or 11. If you…
ExifToolGui on Windows 10: Compatibility and Setup Windows 10 is, with Windows 11, one of the two platforms the ExifToolGui documentation explicitly points users to. The V6 documentation for Frank Bijnen’s continuation of Bogdan Hrastnik’s GUI says the program should run on Windows 7 and 8, and that it is highly recommended to use Windows…
ExifToolGui on Windows 11: Compatibility and the HEIC Notes from V6.3.12 Windows 11 is the platform ExifToolGui is currently developed for in practice. The program — Frank Bijnen’s V6 continuation of Bogdan Hrastnik’s Windows front-end for Phil Harvey’s ExifTool — documents Windows 7 and 8 as runnable, but its documentation states plainly that Windows 10…
