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little_exif

v0.6.23 Growing

The only pure Rust crate with true read *and* write support for EXIF data, available for PNG, JP(E)G, HEIF/HEIC/HIF/AVIF, JXL, TIFF, WebP - and soon even more!

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.65
Multimedia::Images #image#metadata#exif#photo

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 73d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
  • !50% of releases were yanked

Security

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Downloads
120.0K
Dependents
37
Releases
54
Size
85KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

28.4K downloads in the last 30 days (945/day), up 64% from the previous period.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 3+ years old, little_exif hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Notable yanked versions

50% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include czkawka_core, rimage, diffusion-rs, moleco, refilelabs-image. When high-quality crates choose little_exif, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 15/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 8/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 9/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 6/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
583/day avg+193%
05001K2K2K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.6.23
59%
v0.6.15
15%
v0.6.9
12%
v0.6.14
10%
v0.6.8
4%

Release Timeline

54 releases27 yankedsince 2022
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Maintainers

Dependencies
6
direct dependencies
Dependents
37
crates depend on little_exif

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