Free tool · nothing is uploaded
Remove EXIF data
See the GPS coordinates, camera body and timestamps hiding in your photo, then strip every last block. The file is decoded and rewritten on your own device, so it never reaches a server.
What a photo knows about you
Every frame a modern camera or phone writes carries a block of metadata alongside the pixels. Some of it is genuinely useful — the exposure triangle, the lens, the picture profile. Some of it describes you rather than the photograph.
Where you stood
GPS latitude and longitude, often accurate to a few metres. One geotagged photo can identify a home address.
What you shot it on
Make, model and frequently a body serial number — enough to link separate accounts to one owner.
When you were there
Capture timestamps down to the second, which reconstruct a timeline of where you were and when.
Why re-encoding beats tag deletion
The obvious way to strip metadata is to find each tag and delete it. The problem is knowing the full list: alongside standard EXIF there is XMP, IPTC, Adobe blocks, and manufacturer-private segments that are not publicly documented. A stripper built from a tag list removes what its author knew about.
This tool inverts the problem. It decodes the image to pixels, paints those pixels to a canvas, and writes a new file from the canvas. A canvas has no capacity to store metadata, so nothing survives the trip — no list required, and no possibility of missing a block nobody documented. The output does get a colour profile, written by the browser to describe the pixels themselves; it is the one segment that is generated rather than carried over, and it says nothing about you.
Frequently asked questions
Does this upload my photo?
No, and that is the point. The file is read with the browser's File API, decoded, repainted and re-encoded entirely on your device. Nothing is transmitted, so there is no server copy to trust, log or leak. Most online EXIF removers ask you to upload the very photo whose private data you are trying to remove.
What metadata does it actually remove?
Every identifying block. Rather than looking for known tags and deleting them, the tool decodes the image to raw pixels and writes a new file from those pixels alone. A canvas holds colour values and nothing else, so EXIF, XMP, IPTC and any vendor-specific segment are gone by construction — including fields this page never listed. The one thing the output does carry is a colour profile, which the browser writes fresh to describe the pixels it just encoded. It contains no information about you, your camera or your location.
Will my photo be rotated after stripping?
No. Many phone photos are stored sideways with an orientation tag telling the viewer to rotate them. Removing that tag naively leaves the pixels lying on their side. This tool applies the orientation to the pixels first, so the output looks exactly like the input.
Does removing metadata reduce image quality?
Re-encoding a JPEG costs one generation of compression, which is invisible for anything web-bound but is a real loss on an archival master. Choosing PNG avoids it entirely — the result is pixel-identical to the input, at a noticeably larger file size. Pick PNG when the file matters, JPEG when the destination is the internet.
Why does GPS data in photos matter?
A single geotagged photo posted publicly can identify a home, a school or a workplace to within a few metres. Camera and lens fields are less obvious but link every photo you have ever posted to the same equipment, which is enough to connect accounts you meant to keep separate.
Do social networks not strip this automatically?
Most large platforms do strip EXIF on upload, but that protects the public copy only — the original still reaches their servers intact. It also does nothing for photos shared by email, messaging apps, cloud links or direct file transfer, which is where the leak usually happens.