YOUR FILES
Clean, and ready to post.
Each card shows what the file was telling everyone. Red means location. Download one by one, or the whole batch as a ZIP.
COLOR PROFILE
ORIENTATION
Stripping removes the rotation tag too, so sideways originals are turned upright first (that one change is not lossless). Color stays exact either way.
Everything clears when you close the tab. Files never leave this machine; the removal is a byte level copy with the metadata segments left out.
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 there is zero quality loss and the strip takes milliseconds. The color profile stays by default so your tones render identically everywhere. One exception: a sideways original gets rotated upright once, because the strip removes the rotation tag.
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 strip is lossless: image data is copied, never recompressed, so there is zero quality cost. The report shows exactly what each file was carrying, gear, serial numbers and the GPS pin on a map, so you see what you just removed. And it takes 200 photos at once with a one click 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.
