🕵️ EXIF Remover
EXIF / Metadata Remover
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🔒 Your image never leaves your device. All processing happens locally in your browser using Canvas redraw (strips all metadata). No upload, no server, no tracking.
Features
- Strip All Metadata — Remove GPS location, camera model, lens info, timestamps, and all other EXIF data from your images.
- Remove GPS Location — Many photos contain your exact GPS coordinates. Stripping EXIF removes this before sharing.
- Metadata Viewer — See what metadata your image contains before it's removed — know what you're protecting.
- Privacy First — The image is redrawn through Canvas, which inherently strips all metadata. Even the tool itself can't keep your data.
How It Works
- Upload your image — Drop any photo — especially JPEG from phone cameras which contain the most metadata.
- Review metadata — See what information was embedded in your file: location, camera model, timestamps.
- Download clean image — Get a clean copy with ALL metadata stripped. Safe to share publicly.
Use Cases
- Remove GPS coordinates before sharing photos publicly
- Strip camera and lens info from professional work
- Remove creation timestamps from sensitive images
- Protect privacy when posting to forums or classifieds
- Clean images before sending to unknown recipients
Frequently Asked Questions
What metadata is removed?
Everything: GPS coordinates, camera make/model, lens info, exposure settings, creation/modification dates, software info, thumbnail cache, and any custom EXIF fields.
How does it work technically?
The image is drawn onto an HTML canvas and saved as a brand-new file. A canvas holds only pixels, so none of the old metadata can come along — and the page reads the cleaned copy back to check before it says so.
Does this reduce image quality?
JPEG and WebP are re-encoded at 95% quality, so there's a tiny loss you're unlikely to see. An ordinary opaque PNG keeps every pixel exactly. Two exceptions: a 16-bit PNG comes back as 8-bit, and semi-transparent pixels can shift by a few colour levels.
Why should I care about EXIF data?
Photos from smartphones typically contain your exact GPS location, device name, and timestamps. This information can be used to track where you live, work, and travel. Always strip EXIF before sharing photos with strangers.
Notes from Milo 🐨
The day after I fixed the metadata viewer I dropped in a photo straight off an iPhone, and it said the file held… a colour profile. The photo had the phone model and the GPS position of my street in it. What happened: every tool here turns a HEIC into a JPEG the moment you add it (browsers can't edit HEIC), and the viewer was reading that fresh JPEG, which has nothing in it. It now reads the HEIC you actually dropped, so you see what the original gives away, and it still checks the clean JPEG it gives you back.
I dropped a geotagged photo in here and the "Metadata Found" box showed me… its file name, its size and today's date. Then it said "All metadata stripped!" before I'd clicked anything, and it said the same for a file my browser couldn't even open. The cleaning itself was always right, but the page wasn't telling you anything useful. Now it reads the file and shows what's actually in it: camera, lens, software, the date it was taken, the GPS position, author, XMP and comments (JPEG, PNG and WebP). Then it makes the clean copy and reads THAT back, so "stripped" is something it checked, not something it hopes. A file that can't be opened is named instead of "cleaned", and on a phone the two boxes stack instead of one being cut off.
Stripping metadata one photo at a time was tedious before a big upload. Now drop the whole batch — every file comes back clean, in a ZIP.
From the blog
- 📖 What EXIF Data Reveals About Your Photos — and How to Remove It — Every photo you take carries hidden metadata — often including the exact GPS location, your camera, and the timestamp. Here's what EXIF is, why it matters before you post, and how to strip it in your browser.
- 📖 How to Remove Hidden Location Data From Your Photos Before You Post — Your photos quietly store the GPS coordinates of where you took them. Here's how to check for hidden EXIF location data and strip it in your browser before you post.
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💬 Bug, idea, or just to say hi? Tell Milo 🐨 · [email protected]