Inspect the hidden metadata in a JPEG, PNG or WebP, see any GPS location it contains, and write out a copy with that metadata removed — entirely in your browser.
What metadata is, and why a photo can reveal where you live
Almost every photo taken on a phone carries a block of hidden data alongside the pixels. It is called EXIF, and it was designed for photographers: shutter speed, aperture, orientation, which lens was fitted. Useful information, and completely invisible when you look at the picture.
The problem is that the same block often carries a GPS position accurate to a few metres, the exact second the shutter fired, the make and model of the phone, and sometimes the camera body serial number or the owner name configured on the device. None of that is visible in the image, none of it is removed when you rename the file, and most messaging apps and social networks either keep it or strip only part of it.
The practical consequence is easy to state. A single photo posted from your garden can contain the coordinates of your garden. A set of photos sold on a marketplace can be tied together by a camera serial number. A screenshot can carry the name of the software that made it and the moment it was made.
This tool shows you that data before you share the file, and writes out a copy without it. It highlights location and device fields first, because those are the two categories that identify a person or a place rather than describing a photograph.
Choose a JPEG, PNG or WebP from your device. It is read in the browser and never uploaded.
Read the summary. Any GPS coordinates and device-identifying fields are shown first, in their own highlighted panel.
Review the full table if you want the detail, including technical fields that carry no personal information.
Select "Remove metadata" to build a cleaned copy, then compare the before and after figures.
Download the cleaned file. The original on your device is never modified.
How this tool removes metadata without touching your image
Many online metadata removers work by decoding the picture and saving it again. That does remove the metadata, but it also re-compresses every pixel, so the file you get back is a lossy copy of the one you put in. For a JPEG that means visible quality loss each time you do it.
This tool takes a different approach. A JPEG, PNG or WebP is a container: a sequence of labelled blocks, some holding compressed image data and some holding metadata. Rather than decoding anything, we walk that sequence, drop the blocks that hold metadata, and copy the remaining blocks through unchanged.
The result is that the compressed image data in the cleaned file is byte-for-byte identical to the compressed image data in your original. Nothing is decoded, nothing is re-encoded, and no quality is lost. The unit tests for this product assert exactly that: they compare the image bytes before and after removal and require them to match exactly.
A consequence worth understanding is that we keep some blocks on purpose. Colour profiles, gamma and pixel-density information all change how an image is displayed, so removing them would alter how your picture looks. Those are preserved and listed as kept, not quietly discarded. If a colour profile itself carries a description string, that string stays too — which is precisely the kind of detail this page exists to tell you rather than gloss over.
If you need a guarantee that absolutely nothing survives, the honest answer is that no format-aware tool can give you one. Re-photographing the screen or re-drawing the image through a canvas destroys more, at the cost of image quality. What this tool offers is a precise, inspectable removal of the metadata blocks it names, and a clear statement of what it does not cover.
Frequently asked questions
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read into memory in your browser, parsed there, and written back out there. There is no server component, no upload, and no analytics. You can disconnect from the network and the tool still works.
Which formats can this tool clean?
JPEG, PNG and WebP. The format is detected from the file’s own magic bytes rather than its extension, so a mislabelled file is handled correctly or rejected clearly.
Does removing metadata reduce image quality?
No. For all three supported formats the compressed image data is copied through unchanged, so the pixels in the cleaned file are identical to the pixels in the original. That is different from tools that decode and re-save the image, which do lose quality.
Does this remove every trace of information from the file?
No, and we will not claim otherwise. It removes the metadata blocks listed in the support table for the format you gave it. It does not remove information hidden inside the compressed image data itself, it does not decode vendor MakerNote blobs field by field, and it deliberately keeps colour and density blocks because removing those would change how your image looks.
Does a cleaned file mean a safe file?
This tool makes no security, malware or safety claim of any kind. It is a metadata editor, not a scanner and not a sanitiser. A file that has had its metadata removed is exactly as safe or unsafe as it was before.
Why can I still see a camera name after cleaning a HEIC or RAW file?
Because those formats are not supported. HEIC, HEIF, AVIF, TIFF, DNG, camera RAW, GIF and SVG are not parsed by this tool at all; it will tell you it cannot read them rather than returning a file it has not actually cleaned.
What happens to an image that has no metadata to begin with?
You will see an empty result and the cleaned file will be effectively the same size as the original. That is a normal outcome, and it is useful information in itself: it tells you the file was already clean.
Can I check the result?
Yes, and you should. Load the cleaned file back into this tool. It should report no metadata fields. The before/after panel also shows the real byte counts so you can see how much was removed.
What this tool will not do
Supports JPEG, PNG and WebP only. HEIC, HEIF, AVIF, TIFF, DNG, camera RAW, GIF and SVG are not parsed and are rejected rather than silently passed through.
This is not a security tool. It makes no malware, virus, safety or anonymity guarantee, and removing metadata does not make a file safe.
Information hidden inside the compressed image data itself, including steganography, is neither detected nor removed.
Vendor MakerNote blocks are not decoded field by field. The EXIF block containing them is removed whole, so their contents are never displayed to you.
Compressed PNG text chunks (zTXt) and international text chunks (iTXt) are removed without being decompressed, so their text is never shown in the table.
Colour profiles, gamma, chromaticity and pixel-density blocks are deliberately kept because removing them changes how the image is displayed. A colour profile can itself contain a description string.
Only the first EXIF directory chain is read: IFD0 plus the Exif and GPS sub-directories. Thumbnail directories are removed along with their parent block but their contents are not listed.
Very large images are subject to a browser memory limit, and the preview is downscaled for display. The file that you download is always built from the original bytes, never from the preview.
The original file on your device is never modified. You always receive a separate cleaned copy, and it is your responsibility to share the right one.