How to use it
- Drop JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC photos onto the box below. What each one carries is listed under its name — GPS coordinates are marked in red.
- Press Process files. EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments and text chunks are removed; the picture data is copied byte for byte.
- Download each clean copy, or all of them in one zip.
What EXIF is, and why you would remove it
EXIF is a block of data a camera writes into every photo it saves: the make and model, the exact date and time, exposure settings, the software that last edited it, and on a phone usually the GPS coordinates of where you were standing. Alongside it, editors add XMP and IPTC blocks that can hold your name, keywords and a history of edits. None of this is visible in the picture, and most messaging apps strip it, but email, cloud links, forums and marketplaces often pass it on intact. A photo of an item for sale can give away your home address; a photo of a child can give away a school. Removing the metadata before sharing closes that gap.
The pixels are not touched
JPG, PNG and WebP all keep metadata in separate blocks next to the picture data. This tool rewrites the file with those blocks left out and copies the compressed image bytes exactly as they were, so a JPG is not decoded and re-saved and loses no quality at all. The one exception is a photo whose orientation is stored as a tag rather than in the pixels — most phone photos taken in portrait. Deleting that tag alone would leave the picture sideways, so those are turned upright first and re-encoded at 95% quality; the result says so. HEIC has no lossless path in a browser and is decoded to a clean JPG.
What is kept
The colour profile (ICC) stays, because removing it changes how the colours look and it identifies nothing about you. The JFIF header and the Adobe colour marker stay, because decoders need them. Everything else that can carry information about you goes: EXIF including GPS and thumbnails, XMP, IPTC, JPEG comments, PNG text and time chunks, WebP EXIF and XMP, and any data a phone appended after the end of the picture.
Questions
Is the photo uploaded to check it?
No. The file is read by JavaScript running in your browser, the summary is built from the bytes on your device, and the clean copy is written there too. The page makes no network request with your data; you can turn Wi-Fi off after it loads and it still works.
Does removing EXIF reduce image quality?
Not for a JPG, PNG or WebP that is already upright: the picture data is copied unchanged and only the metadata blocks are dropped, so the output is often a few kilobytes smaller and otherwise identical. Only a photo that needs rotating is re-encoded, at 95% quality, and it is labelled.
Why is the location shown in red?
Because of everything a photo can carry, the GPS coordinates are the one item a stranger could not guess from the picture itself. It is shown so you can see what would have been exposed. After processing it is gone.
Will my photos still open correctly after stripping?
Yes. Every block a decoder needs to draw the picture is kept, and files that store rotation as a tag are physically rotated before the tag is removed, so nothing comes out sideways.