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Checks the three things that catch people out: where the file says it was taken, what is hidden in its tags, and what is legible in the picture.
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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 that are about to leave your machine.
- The tool strips every identifying trace (metadata, location, authorship, thumbnails), re-verifies the result, and hands back clean files plus a short report of exactly what was found and removed.
- Press “Process files” and download the results, individually or as one ZIP.
About this tool
Checks the three things that catch people out: where the file says it was taken, what is hidden in its tags, and what is legible in the picture. Nothing uploaded. 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
Stripping is metadata-level; visible content (a whiteboard in frame, a reflected screen) is not analysed — read your own pictures before sending. Re-encoding for verification is skipped when the file is already clean, so clean files stay byte-identical. Metadata is removed from JPEG, PNG and WEBP images and from video and audio containers. Other formats (GIF, TIFF, HEIC and so on) are returned unchanged and marked as not cleaned in the report.
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Frequently asked questions
What does a photo reveal about me?
Usually more than the picture. A phone writes the GPS coordinates, the exact time, the camera model and often its serial number into the file, none of which is visible when you look at the image. On top of that, anything legible in the picture — a screen, an envelope, a street sign — is readable by anyone who receives it.
Do social networks not strip this?
The large ones usually do, on upload, after the file has reached their servers. That does not help with a photo you email, put in a shared folder, attach to a listing or send in a message, which is where most files actually go.
Does it change my file?
No. This one only looks. Where it finds something it links to the tool that fixes it, so removing the tags or covering what is legible stays a decision you make.
Is a clean result a guarantee?
No, and it says so. It checks the things that go wrong most often and matches known shapes; a bespoke internal reference or something identifiable only in context will not be flagged. It is a second pair of eyes, not a replacement for the first.