Read locally — nothing is uploaded

Remove EXIF & Metadata

See the hidden data in your photos — GPS location, camera, date — and strip it out before you share. Lossless, free and 100% private.

Drop a photo

or click to browse — JPG photos carry the most hidden data · pick several to clean a batch

No photo handy? — a real JPEG with GPS and camera data inside.

demo-exif-sample.jpg 6 fields removed

GPS latitude ~~0.7667° S~~
GPS longitude ~~36.3667° E~~
Date taken ~~2025:09:15 16:33:42~~
Camera ~~Google Pixel 7 Pro~~
Altitude ~~1884 m~~
Software ~~HDR+ 1.0.773153310zp~~
Your photo untouched, full quality

Real fields a phone photo carries — the pixels never change

What's hiding in your photos

GPS location

Phones tag photos with the exact coordinates they were taken — often your home. Strip it before posting.

Date & device

The exact timestamp, camera and even the software used are all embedded in the file.

Lossless & private

JPEGs are cleaned losslessly with zero quality loss, and nothing ever leaves your device.

Why this one runs on your device

A photo straight off a phone usually carries the exact GPS coordinates where it was taken, the time down to the second, and the device that took it. Uploading it to a site that strips metadata means handing over all of it first — to the one party you were trying to hide it from.

This tool reads and strips that data in the page itself, so the file never leaves your device.

GPS stays yours

See the coordinates before you remove them — including the home address a holiday photo quietly carries.

Lossless for JPEG

Metadata segments are dropped and the pixel data is untouched, so stripping costs no quality.

Works offline

Load the page once and it keeps working with the network off — the clearest proof nothing is sent.

You can check this yourself: open your browser's network panel, run the tool, and watch it stay silent. Or turn off your Wi-Fi — the tool keeps working.

What the file says about you after you send it

The fields that actually matter

Cameras and phones write a block of metadata into every photo. Most of it is harmless — exposure, focal length, orientation. Three fields are not: GPS coordinates, the timestamp, and the device identifier.

The coordinates are precise enough to identify a building, and a photo taken indoors is usually taken at home. A set of photos shared over months carries a movement history nobody intended to publish, which is the part people underestimate.

Which platforms strip it, and why that is not a plan

Large social networks generally strip metadata on upload, partly for privacy and partly because they re-encode everything anyway. That protects the public copy and nothing else.

The file you emailed, put in a shared folder, sent over a chat app that preserves originals, or attached to a marketplace listing keeps every field. Stripping before sending is the only approach that does not depend on each destination's current behaviour.

Why stripping costs no quality on a JPEG

A JPEG is a sequence of marker segments, and metadata lives in its own segments alongside the compressed image data. Removing them is a matter of dropping those segments and rewriting the file — the pixels are never decoded, so there is no re-encode and no generational loss.

This is worth knowing because the alternative people reach for — opening the photo in an editor and re-saving it — does re-encode, and loses a little quality every time.

What metadata will not tell you

Absent metadata is not evidence of anything. Screenshots never had any, messaging apps remove it, and any re-save can drop it, so a photo with no EXIF is unremarkable rather than suspicious.

Equally, present metadata is not proof: every field is editable. It is a convenience for organising your own photos and a privacy risk when sharing, and it is not a chain of custody.

Frequently asked questions

What is EXIF / photo metadata?

Hidden data your camera or phone saves inside a photo — GPS location, the exact date and time, and the device model. It travels with the file when you share it.

Is removing it private?

Yes — the photo is read and cleaned entirely in your browser and never uploaded, so even geotagged private photos stay on your device.

Does removing metadata reduce quality?

No. For JPEGs the metadata is stripped losslessly — the actual image data is untouched, so there's zero quality loss.

Why remove location data before sharing?

Geotagged photos reveal exactly where they were taken — often your home. Stripping the GPS tag before you post protects your privacy.

Export here and keep editing there — your image carries over, with no re-upload.