Nothing leaves your browser.
Every "free online tool" that asks you to upload a document is asking you to hand a stranger a copy of it. These tools do the work inside your browser instead. The file never moves, and because the whole site is public static code with no backend, that is something you can check rather than something we ask you to believe.
Tools
Image metadata remover
See the GPS coordinates, camera serial number and timestamps buried in your photos, then strip them out without re-compressing a single pixel. JPEG, PNG and WebP.
Open the toolPDF metadata & hidden data
Author names, editing software, attachments, comments — and the whole of the previous version, which most editors leave inside the file when you save. Inspection now; removal is being built.
Open the toolOffice document inspector
Word and Excel files retain author names, tracked changes and comments that are easy to forget about and awkward to send to a client.
Why this is built the way it is
A site hosted on GitHub Pages has no server-side code. It cannot receive your file, because there is nothing on the other end to receive it. That is not a policy we could quietly change next quarter — it is a property of how the site is hosted, and the source is right here for anyone who wants to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
fetch() is the function a web page calls to send your data to a server.
It is the thing we do not do, so it is what we are named after. The
verification page invites you to search this site's source
for it — along with XMLHttpRequest, sendBeacon and every
other way a browser can transmit data — and find nothing. The name is the claim, which
makes it awkward to quietly abandon.
Nothing is re-encoded
Most browser-based cleaners redraw your image on a canvas and export it again. The metadata does go away — along with some image quality, every time. These tools edit the file's container directly and copy the compressed image data through untouched, so the output is bit-identical to the input apart from the parts you asked to remove.
It works offline
Save any tool page to your computer and open it with the network disconnected. It keeps working. There is no licence check, no analytics beacon, and no CDN dependency to fail. For anyone bound by rules about where client material may travel, this is the point.
No accounts, no email, no upsell wall
There is nothing to sign up for. The tools are not a trial of something else, and there is no file-size limit, because the work happens on your machine and costs us nothing. If they save you time, there is a tip jar — that is the entire business model.