Remove metadata from a photo before you share it
Drop a file in. You'll see exactly what it's been carrying — where it was taken, on what device, when — and then it's gone. Nothing is uploaded; the file never leaves this browser tab.
Your photo has been keeping notes
A photo file is not just pixels. Cameras and phones attach a block of text to every shot — sometimes a hundred fields of it. Most of it is harmless. Some of it is not.
| Field | What it gives away |
|---|---|
| GPSLatitude / GPSLongitude | The coordinates where the camera was standing. On a phone photo of your living room, that is roughly your address. |
| Make / Model / SerialNumber | Device identity. Combine with the timestamp and it becomes a way to link your photos across accounts. |
| DateTimeOriginal | When. Often enough to reconstruct a schedule when read alongside a few other files. |
| Artist / Copyright / OwnerName | Your name, sometimes written in by the camera software by default. |
| Software | Which app edited it, and often which version — a small fingerprint of your setup. |
Most social platforms strip this on upload. Most file transfers, email attachments, chat apps and cloud links do not.
Three things it does, and one it refuses to
- Reads the file. It parses the real structure — JPEG segments, PNG chunks, WebP RIFF chunks, MP3 ID3 tags — and lists what is actually there. No guessing.
- Rewrites it. Metadata segments are removed and the file is reassembled. Image data, colour profiles and the JFIF header are left byte-for-byte untouched.
- Keeps your orientation. Phone photos are usually stored sideways with a rotation flag attached. Deleting the whole EXIF block would make them lie down, so the rotation flag alone is written back. (This is the detail most strippers get wrong.)
What it won't do: it will not tell you whether an image was AI-generated by looking at the pixels. Nothing can do that reliably — see what the file itself can tell you instead.
There is no upload
This is not a promise on a page — it is how the tool is built. There is no server to send your file to. The reading and rewriting happen in JavaScript, on your machine.
You can verify it: open your browser's network panel and watch. No request carrying your file is ever made. That matters if the file is a document, a scan, or a photo you would not hand to a stranger's server.
By file type
EXIF data
What EXIF is, which fields identify you, and how to clear the whole block.
Batch cleaner
Drop a folder's worth of photos and clean them all in one go.
MP3 / audio
Voice memos and music carry ID3 tags — title, artist, and sometimes a comment field with more in it than you'd like.
AI provenance check
Read the AI markers a file genuinely carries — C2PA manifests, generator signatures — instead of a made-up percentage.
Common ones
Does removing metadata reduce image quality?
No. The compression data is untouched — only the text blocks are removed. The file gets slightly smaller; the picture does not change.
Will it break my photo?
No. The output keeps the same JPEG structure, just without the metadata segments, and the rotation flag is preserved. If anything ever fails to open, the original file on your disk is unchanged — this tool never modifies it.
Can I do several files at once?
Yes — the batch cleaner takes multiple files and downloads them one by one.
Is this legal?
Removing metadata from your own files is ordinary privacy practice. Two things to keep in mind: stripping a copyright field from someone else's photograph can have legal consequences, and removing provenance markers may run against platform rules where those markers exist to disclose AI generation.