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EXIF Remover

Photos from your phone can carry the exact coordinates where they were taken. Drop a file below and get it back with the metadata stripped — same picture, no hidden record of where you live.

Removes GPS & camera data

No registration

Nothing stored

Original quality kept

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JPG, PNG, WebP · up to 25 MB · processed in memory, never stored

What gets removed, and why it matters

Metadata is invisible until someone looks for it — and looking takes one drag-and-drop. This is what leaves your camera attached to every photo you take.

GPS coordinates

The single biggest risk. Photos taken at home carry your address to within a few metres. A picture of a pet, posted to a forum, can locate you.

Device identification

Make, model and sometimes a serial number — enough to link separate photos to one camera, and one camera to one person.

Exact timestamps

When each photo was taken, to the second. Combined across a set, it maps your day.

Editing history

Which software touched the file and when, sometimes with the original filename attached.

Owner fields

Artist and copyright tags, which some cameras fill with a real name automatically.

Thumbnails that outlive the edit

Some formats keep an embedded preview of the ORIGINAL image — so a crop meant to hide something can still contain the uncropped version.

How it works

Drop the file in

It is uploaded over HTTPS and held in memory only. Nothing is written to disk and nothing goes to a database.

Pixels rebuilt without metadata

We reconstruct the image from raw pixel data and save it fresh, so no metadata block is carried over. Quality is preserved.

Download and verify

Take the cleaned file and run it through our EXIF viewer — it should come back empty. Trust the check, not our word for it.

Checking someone else's photo rather than cleaning your own? Start with our AI image detector — it covers any image type and runs the same twelve methods.

When to strip metadata

Selling online — Marketplace photos taken at home carry your address.
Forums and social — Anywhere images are posted publicly.
Sending documents — Scans and photos of paperwork attached to email.
Journalism and sources — Protecting where a photo was taken, and by whom.

Frequently asked questions

Does removing EXIF reduce image quality?

No visible loss. JPEGs are re-encoded at quality 95 with no chroma subsampling; PNG and WebP are effectively lossless in this operation. Only the metadata block is dropped.

Do you keep the photos I upload?

No. The file lives in memory for the fraction of a second it takes to process and is then gone — nothing on disk, nothing in a database. Given that the whole point is privacy, storing them would be absurd.

Do social networks strip metadata anyway?

Most do on upload, which is why so many images arrive with nothing. But not all platforms, not all upload paths, and definitely not files sent directly over email or as a document attachment. Strip it yourself and it is settled.

Can removed metadata be recovered?

Not from the cleaned file — the data is not hidden, it is absent. The original on your device still has it.

How do I check whether it worked?

Run the result through our EXIF viewer. If it comes back empty, the file is clean.

Is there a limit?

Thirty operations an hour per IP. That keeps it free and open for everyone.

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