Remove Metadata
Strip the GPS, camera and timestamp tags a photo carries without telling you.
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How to use this tool
- Add your files — drag them onto the page or choose them. They stay on your device.
- Add the files — JPEG, PNG and WebP images, video and audio all carry metadata this can strip.
- Press the action; each file comes back byte-cleaned with its EXIF, GPS and editing history removed, same format and quality.
- Press “Remove metadata” and download the results, individually or as one ZIP.
About this tool
Strip the GPS, camera and timestamp tags a photo carries without telling you. Free and unlimited, and nothing is uploaded: it all runs in your own browser. Everything is analysed and produced on your own device — nothing is uploaded anywhere, and you can verify it: the tools keep working even offline.
Privacy & limitations
Cleaning rewrites the container: pixel data is preserved exactly for images, but files are re-muxed where the format forces it (video/audio), which can drop chapter menus. Pixels can still be identifying on their own — a photo of your house locates you with no EXIF at all. Colour profiles are kept on purpose (removing them shifts colours). Other image formats such as HEIC, AVIF, GIF and TIFF are not accepted — convert them first.
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Frequently asked questions
What is actually in my photos?
Usually GPS coordinates accurate enough to find a front door, the exact date and time, the camera or phone model and often its serial number, the software that last edited the file, and sometimes a thumbnail of an earlier version of the image. Estate agents, job applicants and anyone selling something second-hand have all published more than they meant to this way.
Does removing it reduce the quality?
No, and that is the point of doing it this way. JPEG, PNG and WebP files are edited directly: the metadata blocks are cut out and the compressed picture data is copied across untouched. Re-saving the image to drop its tags would cost a generation of quality to solve a privacy problem, which is a poor trade.
What about video?
The same idea. Video and audio files have their tags and chapters removed while the streams are copied rather than re-encoded, so it is lossless and takes about a second however long the recording is.
Do social networks not strip this already?
Most of the big ones do, on upload, after your file has reached their servers. That does not help with a file you email, put in a shared folder, attach to a listing or send in a message, and it means trusting each of them to keep doing it.
Is the colour profile removed too?
No, deliberately. The ICC profile says how the colours in the file should be interpreted, and dropping it would leave a wide-gamut photograph to be guessed at as sRGB, shifting every colour in it. It identifies nobody, so it stays.