Is This Photo Edited?

Check a photo for signs of editing, AI generation, hidden metadata, and compression artifacts. Runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.

Drop a photo to analyze

or paste an image (Cmd/Ctrl+V) or image URL

JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF

Pasting a URL fetches the image from that site to your browser. Vajba never receives the file, but the remote site will see your browser request. If you later include the Source URL in a downloaded report or click a reverse-search link, the URL may be shared with those services.

Overall Read

Running tests...

Findings are per-test. The overall read sums only suspicious evidence from Hard and Supportive tests.

What this result means, and what it does not

What it means: every finding here comes from the file's own bytes, parsed in your browser. We look at metadata, encoder signatures, embedded provenance claims, pixel statistics, and a handful of structural clues.

What it does not mean: "no findings" is not a proof of authenticity. No public tool reliably detects modern AI-generated images in 2026, and metadata is trivial to strip or forge. Reverse image search is usually a better authenticity check than any algorithm here.

How to read suspicious findings: hard evidence is a fact from the file. Supportive evidence is a hint that needs corroboration. Correlated findings from one cause are down-weighted so they do not stack into an exaggerated verdict.

About AI Detection

What works, what doesn't, and what this app actually does

In principle: cryptographic content provenance (C2PA / Content Credentials) is the most reliable way to know how an image was produced. When a Photoshop, Firefly, DALL-E, Leica, or Sony tool signs its output, a verifier can confirm who signed it and what edits they recorded.

In this app: we detect and parse Content Credentials from the file bytes, cryptographically verify the COSE_Sign1 signature in your browser via WebCrypto (ECDSA P-256/P-384/P-521 and RSA-PSS), verify the asset hash binding (the file's bytes must match the SHA-256 the signer claimed), and walk the certificate chain to the official C2PA trust list (vendored from c2pa-org/conformance-public). A fully verified Content Credential means all three checks passed.

For images without Content Credentials: no public tool reliably detects modern AI-generated images in 2026. Midjourney, Flux, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion outputs defeat every current detector when the output has been through even light post-processing. External AI detectors below can give a second opinion at the cost of uploading the image to their servers.

Verify a Content Credential Hive (uploads your image) AI or Not (uploads your image) Sightengine (uploads your image)

Check a photo for signs of editing, AI generation, hidden metadata, and compression artifacts

Forensic findings grouped by evidence class

What works, what doesn't, and what this app actually does