After the initial 1.0 release gained some traction, I spent the last 4 months rebuilding and improving the tool based heavily on feedback from digital forensics & OSINT investigators, to make discoveries legally defensible, containing all available data found with utmost accuracy and as easy to use as possible.

Refloow Geo Forensics is privacy first, open source (AGPL 3.0) local desktop app designed to automate batch EXIF extraction and geolocation mapping of found metadata evidence. The goal is to eliminate the manual work needed to verify, trace, plot, and document evidence found in media files whilst having no cloud processing, no telemetry, no logins & zero ads.

The project has already been in publications such as dark web informer, and has been reviewed and code dissected and explained in indepth reviews such as [Bright Coding](https://www.blog.brightcoding.dev/2026/06/25/stop-manually-hunting-exif-data-refloow-geo-forensics-does-it-in-seconds)'s post

Everything runs completely locally on the machine. The only external connection is fetching public map tiles to display the map (no API keys required, zero data is sent out).

Core Features:

**- Batch Metadata Extraction:** It recursively digs through all nested sub-folders to pull metadata from all files found. It utilizes Phil Harveys industry standard ExifTool in the backend meaning it supports almost every image/video filetype ever and can handle partially corrupted files.

\- **Timeline Reconstruction:** It automatically plots coordinates and sorts media chronologically, drawing a continuous path between pins to visualize movement. Exact matching coordinates are clustered and expandable on click to keep the map clean.

\- **6 Map Layers:** Satellite, Topographic, Humanitarian, Forensic Light, Forensic Dark, and Standard Street, to cover all sorts of things no matter what or where ur investigating.

\- The UI features a retractable sidebar for smaller screens, light mode for field work & dark mode for lab work, app runs natively on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

**Links:**

**- GitHub / Source Code:** [https://github.com/Refloow/Refloow-Geo-Forensics](https://github.com/Refloow/Refloow-Geo-Forensics)

**- Microsoft Store:** [https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mw4c0fzmr81](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mw4c0fzmr81)

**- Linux Snap Store:** [https://snapcraft.io/refloow-geo-forensics](https://snapcraft.io/refloow-geo-forensics)

I will be in the comments answering any questions, if you wanna support my work and gain exposure to the tool, feel free to leave a github star on the project, if you have any suggestions, drop them as a github issue or a comment here!

Refloow Geo Forensics - Free & Local OSINT Tool for Batch Media Metadata Extraction, Geolocation Mapping & Visual Timeline Reconstruction