Sample images: see every verdict
These sample files have known ground truth, so you can watch each verdict happen instead of taking our word for it. They are synthetic test images: the camera metadata is fabricated for demonstration, the edit is a real pasted region, and the Content Credentials file is the official public C2PA test asset. Nothing here depicts a real event.
- With the ChronoVerify browser extension installed, right-click any image below and choose Verify with ChronoVerify.
- Save an image and upload it at the free verifier, or use the sample buttons there.
- From the API:
curl -X POST https://chronoverify.com/v1/verify -F "url=https://chronoverify.com/samples/sample_camera.jpg"
Intact camera metadata
Carries EXIF capture time (2026-03-14) and a camera make and model, with no contradictions. The verdict reports what the file itself supports.
Geotagged photo
Same idea plus GPS: capture time and coordinates that resolve to San Francisco. Location comes from the file, not from guessing the scene.
Content Credentials, untrusted signer
The official C2PA test file. A manifest is present and intact, but it is signed with the public test certificate, which is not on a production trust list. ChronoVerify is fail-closed: presence alone is never reported as validated provenance. A credential from a trust-listed signer reports provenance confirmed.
Impossible capture time
The embedded capture time claims the year 2091, which no real photo can carry. Contradictions inside the file route to a review verdict, not an accusation.
Known edit
A region was pasted in and the file re-saved, leaving a compression and noise history that does not match the rest of the frame. Two independent pixel signals must corroborate before this verdict appears.
Stripped copy
The same scene exported as a metadata-free PNG, which is what a screenshot or a social media copy looks like. No evidence survives, and the verdict says exactly that: absence of signal is not evidence the image is fake.
Why social media photos come back inconclusive
Platforms such as X, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit recompress uploads and strip camera metadata. The copy they serve cannot carry capture evidence no matter what tool reads it. An inconclusive verdict on a platform copy is the honest answer, and the useful next step is to find the original file: a wire photo on the agency site, the image on the publisher's own page, or the file as it left the camera. The method page covers what each layer of evidence can and cannot support.
Check a photo of your own, free and without an account.
Open the verifier