EXIF Remover

Your photos talk behind your back

Every photo from a phone carries a hidden dossier: the GPS coordinates of your home, the minute it was taken, your exact phone model, sometimes even the owner name configured in a camera. Upload that photo to a marketplace listing, a forum, or send it to a stranger, and you've handed all of it over. Most big social networks strip metadata on upload — but email, messaging apps, cloud drives, marketplaces and many forums pass the file through intact.

This tool makes the invisible visible first: drop a photo and read the full table — camera, lens, exposure, software, timestamps, and if GPS is present, the coordinates with a map link so you can see exactly what you'd be sharing. Then one click removes everything.

Lossless, literally

The strip is surgical, not a re-export. For JPG, the metadata segments (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments) are removed from the file structure while the compressed image data passes through byte-for-byte — identical pixels, zero generation loss, slightly smaller file. PNG gets the same treatment for its text and EXIF chunks. Colour profiles are kept so the image still renders correctly.

And the obvious point, which still needs saying: a privacy tool that uploads your photo to a server to “remove the private parts” is a contradiction. Here the parsing and stripping run in your browser — the photo with the GPS data of your house never leaves your device.

• Selling online? Strip before listing — buyers can read your home coordinates from marketplace photos.
• Sharing screenshots of photos? Screenshots are clean, but the original you might attach isn't.
• Posting elsewhere? Pair with the face blur tool for the full anonymising pass.

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