Image Metadata Remover —Strip EXIF & GPS Online Free

A photo file is two things at once: the picture, and a set of hidden notes written alongside it. This tool reads those notes, shows them to you, and then writes a copy that has none of them. Here is what it looks for.

• EXIF — camera make and model, lens, body serial number, the exact capture date and time, and exposure settings such as aperture, shutter speed and ISO.
• GPS coordinates — latitude, longitude and sometimes altitude, accurate to a few metres. The single most revealing field in most photos.
• XMP — the packet Adobe tools write, often carrying edit history, ratings, keywords and a creator name.
• IPTC — captions, credits, bylines and location names, typically added in newsrooms and photo agencies.
• ICC colour profiles — technical colour data. Harmless for privacy, but still removed so the output is genuinely minimal.
• PNG text chunks and JPEG comments — free-text fields where software can leave almost anything, including file paths from your own computer.

GPS deserves a second look. If location services were on when you pressed the shutter, your phone saved coordinates precise enough to identify a specific building. A photo taken indoors at home therefore carries your address in all but name — paste the numbers into any map and the pin lands on your doorstep. Removing image metadata before you share is what keeps that out of a marketplace listing or a public profile.

The whole process runs on your own device. Nothing is sent anywhere, so there is no upload wait and no queue.

1. Add your image. Drag a photo onto the upload box above, or press Choose Image to pick one from your device. You can also paste an image URL, or load a sample photo to see the tool work. JPG, JPEG, PNG and WebP files up to 20 MB are accepted.
2. Review what was found. The scanner immediately lists the metadata embedded in your file — camera details, timestamps, software tags and any GPS coordinates. Choose View Full Details for the complete field-by-field report, including a map link if coordinates were present, so you can see precisely what you were about to share.
3. Download the clean file. Press Download Clean File. Your browser rebuilds the picture from its raw pixels and writes a new file with no metadata container at all, saved as yourphoto-clean.jpg. Your original stays untouched on your device.

Because the cleaned image is re-encoded rather than edited, there is no leftover EXIF block to recover. The data is absent, not blanked.

Most "online" metadata removers upload your photo to a server, clean it there, and send it back. That means handing the very file you are trying to protect to someone else's computer. This tool takes the opposite approach: your browser does all the work.

The File API reads the image straight from your disk, our parser inspects the bytes in memory, and a canvas element writes the clean copy. No request carrying your photo ever leaves your device — which has four practical consequences:

• Nothing to intercept, because there is no upload in transit.
• Nothing to breach, because we hold no library of user images.
• Nothing to take on trust, because we cannot delete what we never received.
• Nothing to wait for, because cleaning happens at local speed.

Closing or refreshing the tab discards everything. There is no account, no email field and no watermark, and advertising rather than subscriptions pays for the hosting. Our privacy policy sets out exactly what the website itself records, and the disclaimer covers the format limits honestly.

JPG and JPEG

Fully supported, and the format where metadata matters most, since EXIF and GPS live here. Output is re-compressed at a high quality setting, so the visual difference is not normally noticeable.

PNG

Fully supported, including tEXt, iTXt and zTXt text chunks plus any embedded EXIF. PNG output stays lossless, so there is no quality change at all.

WebP

Fully supported, covering the EXIF, XMP and ICC chunks. Like JPG, WebP is re-encoded when the clean copy is written.

HEIC and HEIF

These can be cleaned only where your browser decodes them natively, which today mainly means Safari on Apple devices. On other browsers, convert to JPG first.

The trade-off, stated plainly. Rebuilding a JPG or WebP means re-compressing it, so there is a very small quality change. That is the price of removing the metadata container completely rather than editing fields in place. Keep your untouched original as the archive master and share the cleaned copy.

• Selling online. A photo taken at home can publish a home address that was never typed into the listing.
• Photographers. Share a portfolio image without exposing a camera serial number or the exact location of a private shoot.
• Journalists and researchers. Protect where a photograph was taken, and by extension who was present.
• Job seekers. Images and documents in an application often carry an author name and editing history.
• Everyday social sharing. Platforms strip some fields from the copy they display, but the original upload still reaches their servers intact.

For the wider picture — document, web and communication metadata, what the law says, and a test showing which fields actually survive processing — see our guide to metadata privacy and how to protect yourself.