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A free EXIF remover that strips GPS location, camera details and timestamps from your files. Remove metadata from photos, videos and documents in seconds — everything runs on your device, so your files never leave it.
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The basics
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a block of hidden information that cameras and phones write inside every photo they take. It travels with the file wherever it goes.
EXIF was invented so photographers could review their settings later — shutter speed, aperture, focal length. That part is harmless. The problem is what got added afterwards. A modern smartphone photo routinely records the exact coordinates where it was taken, the second it was taken, the serial number of the device that took it, and a small thumbnail generated before you edited anything.
Metadata is not limited to EXIF either. The same file can carry IPTC records written by news and stock software, XMP packets written by Adobe tools, and container-level fields such as the location atom inside an MP4. A tool that only strips EXIF and stops there leaves several of these behind. This EXIF data remover handles all of them, which is why it can remove metadata from photos, video files and PDFs rather than images alone.
The risk
A single geotagged photo can disclose more about you than the message you attached it to.
The common assumption is that platforms handle this for you. Some do strip metadata on upload — but many do not, and the moment a photo travels by email, a messaging app, a cloud share link, a forum attachment or a direct file transfer, every tag normally survives intact. Selling something online, filing an insurance claim, posting to a classified listing or sending a photo to a stranger are all situations where the file arrives complete with the coordinates of wherever you took it.
| What is stored | What it can reveal |
|---|---|
| GPS coordinates | A photo taken at home pinpoints your front door to within a few metres. Post enough of them and your daily routine becomes a map. |
| Capture timestamps | Times and dates place you somewhere specific. Combined across photos they reconstruct a timeline of where you were and when. |
| Device serial numbers | Camera body and lens serials are unique. They link an anonymous photo back to every other photo you have ever posted. |
| Owner and author fields | Cameras and editing software often embed a registered name or copyright string you never typed yourself. |
| Embedded thumbnails | EXIF can hold a small preview made before your edit. A crop that hid something may still be recoverable from it. |
| Software fingerprints | Editor names and versions reveal your toolchain, which narrows down who produced a file. |
Step by step
Four steps, about a minute, and nothing leaves your device. The same process works to remove metadata from a photo, a batch of holiday pictures, a video or a PDF.
Drag photos, videos or PDFs onto the drop zone, or select them from your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Review every tag found in each file, with GPS coordinates and identifying fields flagged as sensitive.
Select Remove Metadata to strip EXIF, GPS, IPTC and XMP data from one file or from all of them at once.
Download each cleaned file, or save them all in one action. The image data itself is unchanged.
Go back to the tool to start, or read on for exactly what gets removed.
Scope
Stripping everything indiscriminately breaks files. The distinction that matters is between data that describes you and data that describes how to display the file.
Why this one is different
Most online tools decode your image and save it again. That is the wrong approach, and you can measure the difference.
When a tool re-encodes a JPEG to remove its metadata, it decompresses the image and compresses it a second time. Every pass through a lossy codec discards a little more detail, and the file often comes back larger than the original because the encoder cannot reproduce the first encoder's exact choices. You lose quality in exchange for privacy, which you should never have to do.
This EXIF remover does not decode anything. It walks the file's container structure, identifies the segments that hold metadata, and writes out a new file containing every other byte unchanged. The compressed image data is copied verbatim, so the decoded pixels are bit-for-bit identical to what you started with — and the file gets smaller, because metadata was the only thing taken out.
For containers where cutting bytes out would break internal offset tables — MP4, MOV, HEIC, AVIF and PDF — the metadata is instead erased in place and its boxes retired using the mechanisms those formats define for exactly this purpose. Byte positions stay valid, so the video still plays and the PDF still opens.
Coverage
Ten formats across images, video and documents — with no size cap and no limit on how many files you clean at once.
| Format | Method | What is removed |
|---|---|---|
| JPEG / JPG | Lossless rebuild | EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, comments, thumbnails |
| PNG | Lossless rebuild | eXIf, tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, tIME chunks |
| WebP | Lossless rebuild | EXIF and XMP chunks, VP8X flags corrected |
| GIF | Lossless rebuild | Comment, plain-text and XMP blocks |
| TIFF / TIF | In-place erasure | EXIF, GPS and thumbnail directories |
| HEIC / HEIF | In-place erasure | Exif and XMP items inside the container |
| AVIF | In-place erasure | Exif and XMP items inside the container |
| MP4 / M4V | In-place erasure | udta, ilst, loci location and track timestamps |
| MOV | In-place erasure | QuickTime user data and creation times |
| In-place erasure | Info dictionary and XMP metadata streams |
By device
The tool runs in the browser, so the steps are the same everywhere. Here is how it compares to what your operating system already offers.
iOS photos are usually HEIC and carry precise GPS. Open this page in Safari, tap Select Files, then choose Photo Library. Because everything runs on the device, the photo is never uploaded — which matters more on a phone, where images are geotagged by default. Apple’s own Share Sheet can hide location, but it only does so for that one share and leaves the stored file untouched.
Android cameras write GPS into JPEG EXIF whenever location permission is granted. Open this page in Chrome, tap Select Files and pick from your gallery. The cleaned copy downloads to your device with the original left intact, so you can verify before deleting anything.
File Explorer offers a “Remove Properties and Personal Information” option in a file’s Details tab. It is genuinely useful, but it covers a limited set of fields, silently misses XMP and IPTC records, and does not handle video containers. Dropping the files here removes every metadata block instead, and shows you exactly what was in them first.
Preview can strip some location data, and the command line tool exiftool can do far more, but neither shows you the full picture before you commit. This EXIF remover lists every tag it finds, flags the identifying ones, and lets you remove metadata from a whole batch at once.
Questions
Everything people ask before trusting a tool with their photos.
Drop the photo onto this page, review the metadata it finds, then select Remove Metadata and save the cleaned file. Everything runs inside your browser, so the photo is never uploaded to a server.
Yes. It is completely free with no account, no sign-up, no watermark and no file limits. There is nothing to install.
No. All parsing and stripping happens locally in your browser using standard JavaScript APIs. The site is a static page with no upload endpoint, so your files physically cannot leave your device.
No. For JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF the compressed image data is copied byte for byte and only the metadata containers are dropped. The pixels are mathematically identical and the file gets slightly smaller. The tool never re-encodes your image.
GPS coordinates, camera make and model, lens and body serial numbers, capture timestamps, software tags, author and copyright fields, embedded thumbnails, IPTC records, XMP packets and JPEG or GIF comments.
Anything that changes how the file displays: image orientation, the ICC colour profile, transparency, animation timing and loop counts, and video playback structure. Your file looks and plays exactly as before.
JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, HEIC, HEIF, AVIF, MP4, MOV and PDF.
The tool removes all identifying metadata in one pass, including GPS. That is the safest default, because location can also be inferred from timestamps, device serial numbers and embedded thumbnails.
Some platforms strip it on upload, but many do not, and email, messaging apps, cloud links and direct file sharing normally preserve every tag. Removing metadata yourself is the only reliable guarantee.
EXIF can contain a small embedded thumbnail generated before your edit. If an editor updates the pixels but not the thumbnail, the uncropped original can still be recovered. This tool removes embedded thumbnails.
No. Because processing happens on your own machine there is no server quota. You can clean a whole folder of photos at once, limited only by your device memory.
Yes. It runs in any modern mobile or desktop browser, including Safari on iOS and Chrome on Android, and works on HEIC photos taken by an iPhone.