EXIF stripper
One-click remove metadata for privacy.
This runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
About EXIF stripper
Removes EXIF metadata such as GPS coordinates, camera model and timestamps by re-encoding the image from its pixels alone in your browser, then downloading the clean copy.
The risk is specific and well documented: a photo taken at home, posted to a forum or a marketplace listing, still carrying the coordinates of the room it was taken in. Large platforms strip metadata on upload, but plenty of smaller sites do not, and nothing is stripped when you email a file, share it from cloud storage, or hand it over on a USB stick.
The cleanup here is structural. The image is decoded, drawn onto a canvas, and re-encoded from raw pixel data, which means only pixels cross that boundary. EXIF, GPS tags, embedded thumbnails and maker notes are gone because there is no path for them to follow, not because a deletion pass went looking for them. A JPEG comes back as JPEG at quality 0.92; anything else comes back as PNG.
Two costs. Re-encoding a JPEG is a second lossy pass — invisible at normal viewing size, but the file is not bit-identical and may grow or shrink. The embedded colour profile goes with the metadata, so a wide-gamut photo can shift slightly on a colour-managed display. And metadata is one channel among several: the filename, the visible content and the scene behind your subject all still talk.
How to use EXIF stripper
- 1Drop the photo onto the panel.
- 2Click Analyze. The stripped file downloads straight away.
- 3Open the download with the image info tool to confirm the metadata has gone.
What it won't do
- JPEG inputs stay JPEG; everything else is written out as PNG, so the format can change.
- Stripping a JPEG re-encodes it, which is a fresh lossy pass.
- One file at a time — use batch EXIF strip for a set of photos.
Common questions
How do I remove GPS location from a photo before posting it?
Drop the photo here and click Analyze — the file you get back is rebuilt from pixel data alone, so the GPS coordinates, camera details and capture time are not in it. Confirm with the image info tool, which should report no EXIF found. For a whole folder, batch EXIF strip does the same and returns a zip.
Do social networks strip EXIF for me?
The major ones usually do, but only after receiving your original. Facebook, Instagram and X remove most metadata from what other users see, which means the platform itself still got your coordinates. Forums, marketplaces, personal sites, email attachments and shared drives typically pass the file through untouched.
Does stripping metadata change how the photo looks?
Barely, but not never. A JPEG is re-encoded at quality 0.92, a second round of lossy compression that is hard to see at normal viewing size and noticeable if you keep repeating it. The colour profile is dropped as well, so a photo shot in a wide gamut can look a shade different on a calibrated screen.
Can the removed metadata be recovered from the new file?
No. There is nothing to recover, because the download was written from decoded pixels and never contained the metadata in the first place. That also means the loss is permanent for that copy, so keep your original if you care about the camera settings, the timestamp or the location.
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Why this one doesn't upload your file
There is no server to upload to. This page is a static file, and the work happens in your browser using the same graphics and WebAssembly code that renders every other site you visit. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed, and handed back as a download. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and it keeps working. The longer explanation