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Remove metadata from your photos

Drop in an image and see precisely what it discloses about you — where it was taken, when, on which physical camera. Then strip that out without touching a single pixel. The file is processed in your browser and never sent anywhere.

This tool needs JavaScript. That is also why it works without a server: the code that reads your image runs on your own machine, not ours.

Drop images here, or click to choose JPEG, PNG and WebP · as many at once as you like · nothing is uploaded

Keep colour profile The ICC profile holds no personal information, but removing it can shift colours on wide-gamut displays. Leave this on unless you need the very smallest file.

What this actually finds

Digital photographs carry a hidden appendix. Depending on the camera and the app that last touched the file, that can include:

GPS coordinates — frequently accurate to a few metres. A photo posted from home tells people where you live.
The camera's serial number — a unique hardware fingerprint. Two photos sharing a serial number came from the same physical device, which links pseudonymous accounts together.
Date and time, down to the second, including the original capture time even after editing.
Make, model and lens, plus the owner name and copyright fields many photographers set once and forget.
An embedded thumbnail. This one surprises people: the small preview stored inside the file is not always regenerated when you crop. The thumbnail can still show what you cropped out.

Why "lossless" matters here

Most browser-based metadata removers draw your image onto a canvas and re-export it. That does remove the metadata — by re-encoding every pixel, adding a fresh generation of JPEG artefacts, and sometimes changing the bit depth of a PNG. Your image gets quietly worse each time.

This tool never decodes the image. It walks the file's container structure, drops the segments that hold metadata, and copies the compressed image data across byte for byte. The pixels that come out are bit-identical to the pixels that went in. You can confirm it: the output is usually the input minus a few kilobytes, exactly.

Common questions

Is my photo really not uploaded?

Correct, and you do not have to take our word for it. This site is static files on GitHub Pages with no backend to receive anything, and the entire processing code is public. The most direct check: open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and process a file. Nothing appears. You can also disconnect from the internet and keep using the page.

Does removing metadata hurt image quality?

Not here. Nothing is re-compressed. The only bytes that disappear are the metadata blocks themselves, so the file gets slightly smaller and the picture is untouched.

Do social networks not strip this automatically?

Some do, some do not, and the behaviour changes without notice. Facebook and Instagram generally strip EXIF on upload; direct file sharing over email, chat apps, cloud drives, and most forums does not. Anything you attach as a file, rather than upload to a feed, usually arrives with metadata intact.

What about the colour profile?

An ICC profile describes how colours should be interpreted, and identifies nothing about you. It is kept by default. Turn the checkbox off if you want an absolutely minimal file and do not mind a possible colour shift on wide-gamut screens.

Which formats work?

JPEG, PNG and WebP today. HEIC, TIFF, and PDF are planned — if one of those is blocking you, say so in the issue tracker and it moves up the list.

Handling genuinely sensitive material? Save this page to your computer (Ctrl/Cmd+S) and open it with your network turned off. It works exactly the same. There is no licence check and no call home, because there is nothing to call home to.