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Drop your photos and click Strip metadata: the GPS position, capture date, camera details and other hidden fields are removed, and the picture itself looks exactly as before. It runs in your browser, so the photos are never uploaded.
What a photo gives away
A phone or camera writes EXIF data into every picture it takes. It can include the model, the serial number, the editing software, the date and time, and exact GPS coordinates. Whoever gets hold of the original file can read every field.
Location is the main concern. Snap a sofa you are selling in your living room, and the listing photo can hand your home address to a stranger. Photos of your kids, your new home or a spot you visit every week can reveal more than you meant to share. Some social networks strip the data when you upload. Plenty of other routes do not: email, files sent through messaging apps, marketplace listings, forums and shared download links can all carry it along intact.
How to remove EXIF data from photos
- Drag your photos, or a whole folder, onto the drop zone.
- Press the Strip metadata button.
- Save the cleaned photos one by one or as a ZIP.
What gets removed
Every EXIF field goes, from the camera make, model and lens to the exposure settings, the GPS coordinates, the capture date and time, and embedded thumbnail previews. The IPTC and XMP sections are cleared as well. Those can hold a caption, the author's name and a record of edits.
The orientation tag counts as metadata too, so we rotate each photo upright before dropping it. Nothing comes out sideways.
The visible picture does not change. PNGs are rewritten without loss, and JPG and WebP get a high-quality re-save that looks identical. Expect each file to lose a few kilobytes.
Cleaning a whole album
Stripping runs on your own device, so there is no batch cap and no daily allowance. Drop the album folder and download the clean copies as one ZIP. Your computer or phone sets the pace, and each photo can be up to 50 MB.
For longer-term storage, the pipeline builder has an Archive preset that strips a whole folder and packs it into a ZIP. Add a rename step as well, so the file names stop revealing dates. Pipelines are free to try on up to 3 files, and Pro runs them on up to 500. Larger runs are processed on our servers in Germany and deleted automatically within two hours.
FAQ
Are my photos uploaded to clean them?
No. The cleaning happens inside your browser, and the files never reach our servers.
Will the capture date disappear?
Yes. The capture date lives inside the file, so it goes with the rest. The creation date your computer shows for the file is a separate thing.
Which files can it clean?
Images only: JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF and BMP. Videos and PDFs are not supported.
Will colors look different afterwards?
Usually not. A color profile may be stripped along with the other metadata, but most images are sRGB and look unchanged without one.