Free tools/Metadata remover
Everything the pixels do not need, gone.
Your camera, your lens, sometimes a serial number, sometimes the coordinates of a private home: every JPEG you send carries them. Drop the batch and each file comes back clean the instant it lands, on your own machine, the image itself never recompressed (a sideways original is turned upright, and that one change is not lossless). Each file opens a report of what it had been telling everyone.
Drop your JPEG or PNG files here
Stripped the instant they land. The image data is never recompressed, except to turn a sideways original upright. Up to 200. Nothing leaves this machine.
No upload. Files never leave your device.Pixels copied. Never recompressed, except to turn a sideways original upright.No account. Free, no trial.Works offline after the first visit.
Color
Your tones render the same everywhere. The profile says nothing about you.
Rotation
The rotation tag goes with the rest, so a sideways original is turned upright first. That one change is not lossless.
Works offline from now on.
WHAT GETS REMOVED
Everything the pixels
do not need.
A JPEG is segments: image data, and everything bolted on. The strip copies the image segments and drops the rest, byte for byte.
01, REMOVED
EXIF, XMP and IPTC, whole
Camera and lens, body and lens serial numbers, every exposure setting, capture date, software, edit history, keywords, star ratings, and the GPS block: latitude, longitude, altitude and the time you were there.
02, REMOVED
The hidden extras
The embedded thumbnail (which can survive edits and show the uncropped frame), comment segments, and trailing data after the image ends, where some phones tuck an entire motion clip.
03, KEPT
Your pixels, exactly
The image data is copied, not re-encoded, so nothing is lost and the strip takes milliseconds. The color profile stays by default so your tones render the same everywhere. One exception: a sideways original is turned upright once, because the rotation tag goes with the rest. That change is not lossless.
04, WHY BEFORE UPLOAD
Platforms are not your privacy plan
Instagram strips most metadata on upload, after it has read the file on its servers. Your portfolio, your email attachments and most website uploaders strip nothing. Clean the file before it leaves your machine and the question never comes up.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Before you post.
Want to see what a file carries first?
The EXIF viewer reads without changing anything, and the metadata guide maps everything that lives inside a photo file.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The strip runs inside your browser; files never leave your machine and nothing persists after you close the tab. Turn the wifi off after the page loads and it keeps working.
Why keep the color profile?
The ICC profile tells screens how to render your tones; it says nothing about you. Remove it and wide gamut exports can look dull or shifted. Untick the box if you want it gone anyway.
Should I strip metadata on client deliveries?
Usually not. Camera info and your copyright help a delivered file tell its story. Strip the versions that go somewhere public: social, a portfolio, a marketplace listing, a forum. Metadata is also a search signal, so keep it where it works for you.
How is this different from other metadata removers?
Three things. The image data is copied, not recompressed, so nothing is lost (a sideways original turned upright is the one exception). Each file opens a report of what it was carrying: gear, serial numbers, the GPS pin on a map. And it takes 200 photos at once, with Download all as one ZIP.
Does this handle RAW files?
No, and you should not post RAW files anyway. Convert them first with the RAW to JPG converter, which writes a clean EXIF block and never copies GPS, then strip the JPG here if you want it fully silent.
What metadata gets removed?
EXIF (camera, lens, serial numbers, settings, dates, GPS), XMP (edit history, keywords, ratings), IPTC (captions, credits), comment segments, the embedded thumbnail, and any data hidden after the image ends. The color profile is kept by default so tones render identically.
Does Instagram remove EXIF anyway?
Instagram strips most metadata on upload, after reading the file on its servers. Portfolios, email attachments and most website uploaders strip nothing. Cleaning the file before it leaves your machine covers every destination at once.
