Remove metadata
Photos taken with a phone carry the device model, the exact date and often the GPS coordinates of where they were taken. Here they are removed without recompressing the image: quality stays bit-for-bit identical.
Your file stays on your device: nothing is uploaded
How it works
The file is rewritten skipping the parts that hold the hidden data: the date and time of the shot, the camera model, GPS coordinates, the author, comments. The pixels are never even touched, so there is no quality loss whatsoever: the image stays identical, it just weighs a little less. What stays are the few parts that decide how the photo looks and say nothing about who took it: which way up it goes and, in HDR photos, the index and the description an HDR screen uses to find and apply the brighter version. The images the photo carries along, such as the preview and the HDR version, are cleaned too. The ICC colour profile stays too by default: removing it saves a little more, but colours can shift on calibrated screens and in print.
Frequently asked questions
- Does a photo taken upright stay upright?
- Yes. Many phones save every photo the same way round and note how it should be turned. Of all the shooting data, that note is the only thing kept, and it says nothing about who, where or when: the photo opens the right way up, without date, model or location.
- How do I know whether the GPS location was in there?
- Next to each file the result lists what was removed, and if there was a location it says so separately. If you see “No metadata found”, the file was already clean and you get it back exactly as it was.
- Can I clean HEIC or WebP photos too?
- Only JPG and PNG go in here, up to 200 files at a time and 50 MB each. A HEIC photo converted with “HEIC → JPEG”, though, already comes out without its shooting data, and the same goes for a WebP converted to another format with “Convert format”.
- If I compress the photo, does the metadata go anyway?
- Almost always: a JPEG recompressed by “Compress images” or converted by “Convert format” doesn’t carry its EXIF data along. But when either tool hands the file back untouched, all the data stays. If you need to be sure, clean it here last: the pixels aren’t touched, and it tells you what it found.
Your files are never uploaded. Anywhere.
Your file stays in your browser’s memory: it is read, processed and written back here. There is no server to send it to.
- Processed locallyEverything happens on your device.
- Nothing to upload, nothing to wait forNothing to upload, no waiting.
- No files to deleteWe keep nothing: nothing reaches us.