Strip the hidden data out of a photo before you share it.
A photo from a phone carries far more than the picture: where it was taken, when, on what, and sometimes which copy of which app edited it. This rebuilds the file from its pixels alone, so none of that comes with it.
- GPS coordinates gone
- Camera and serial gone
- Nothing uploaded
Drop an image here, or click to browse
The block a phone attaches to every photo.
An illustration of the shape of it, not a reading of your file. Nothing here is uploaded or inspected. The right-hand column is what the rebuilt image carries instead.
| Field | In the original | After stripping |
|---|---|---|
| GPS position | 51.5014 N, 0.1419 W | present → gone |
| GPS altitude | 11.4 m | present → gone |
| Capture time | 2026-05-04 18:42:07 +01:00 | present → gone |
| Camera | Phone maker, model XYZ | present → gone |
| Serial number | F2LX•••••••• | present → gone |
| Lens | 5.7 mm ƒ/1.8 | present → gone |
| Exposure | 1/120 s, ISO 400 | present → gone |
| Orientation | Rotate 90° CW | present → gone |
| Software | Photos 7.2 · edited | present → gone |
| Embedded thumbnail | 160 × 120 preview | present → gone |
Rebuilt, not edited.
1. The photo is decoded
Your browser reads the file into raw pixels. That step reads the image data and nothing else. The metadata block is simply not part of what comes out.
2. The metadata is left behind
Nothing has to be found and deleted field by field, which is how strippers miss things. The pixels are all that is carried forward, so anything that was not a pixel is gone by definition.
3. A clean file is encoded
Those pixels are written out as a brand new JPEG, PNG, or WebP at quality 92. The new container has no EXIF, no XMP, no maker notes, and no thumbnail hiding an older version of the frame.
4. You download it and share it
What you get looks identical and tells a stranger nothing about where you were. The original file on your device is untouched.
The one tool where uploading would defeat the point.
Sending a photo to a server to have its location data removed means handing that location data to the server. This page never does: the decode and the re-encode both happen in the tab you are looking at, and nothing is transmitted at any stage.
Stripping by rebuilding is also more thorough than editing. Metadata hides in more places than the EXIF block: XMP packets, ICC comments, maker notes, and the small embedded thumbnail that can preserve a crop you thought you had removed. None of it is carried across, because none of it is a pixel.
One thing to know: the orientation your browser shows is baked into the output. A photo that relied on an EXIF rotation flag comes out the right way up, with the flag no longer needed.
- Price
- Free, unlimited, no account
- Input formats
- JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, and SVG. Vectors are rasterized on the way in
- Removes
- EXIF, GPS, XMP, maker notes, embedded thumbnails, everything but pixels
- Output
- JPEG or WebP at quality 92, or PNG losslessly
- Resolution
- Unchanged, the same pixel dimensions you started with
- Orientation
- Baked in, so the picture stays the right way up
- Where it runs
- Your browser, with no network round trip
Worth knowing before you share.
Choose PNG if you cannot lose a pixel
JPEG and WebP output is re-encoded at quality 92, visually indistinguishable, but technically a new lossy pass. PNG is lossless, at the cost of a much larger file.
Metadata is not the only thing that identifies a photo
The picture itself can give away a location through street signs, windows, and reflections. Stripping EXIF removes the machine-readable half of the problem, not the human-readable one.
Some platforms strip it anyway, and some do not
Large social networks usually remove metadata on upload. Direct messages, email attachments, cloud links, and file transfers routinely do not, which is exactly where this matters.
Strip last, after any other edits
Editors often write their own metadata back into a file when they save. Make this the final step before sharing so nothing gets reattached afterwards.
Everything else.
Is it free?
Completely. No account, no limit, no paid tier. Your device does the work.
Do you see my photo?
No, and that is the entire design. A metadata remover that uploads your file has already handed over the coordinates you were trying to remove. This one never transmits anything.
What exactly gets removed?
Everything that is not image data: GPS coordinates and altitude, camera make, model and serial number, lens data, exposure settings, capture timestamps, software and editing history, XMP packets, maker notes, and any embedded thumbnail.
Does the picture change?
The pixels are re-encoded, so JPEG and WebP output goes through one more lossy pass at quality 92, not something you would spot side by side. Choose PNG if you need the pixels preserved exactly.
Will my photo end up rotated wrongly?
No. The orientation your browser displays is the orientation that gets written, so a photo that depended on an EXIF rotation flag comes out upright without needing one.
Can the removed data be recovered from the new file?
Not from the file this produces: it is built from pixels and never contained the metadata. Your original on disk still has all of it, which is usually what you want.
Does it remove a visible watermark?
No. Anything drawn into the picture is part of the picture. This removes the invisible data attached to it, not marks painted onto it.
Do the other tools strip metadata too?
Yes, as a side effect: the converter and the compressor both rebuild the file from pixels. This page exists for when stripping is the only thing you want to happen.