What This Tool Does
Drop in a photo and this tool reads every piece of metadata hidden inside it — instantly, without sending a single byte anywhere. You'll see exactly what your camera or phone recorded about the shot: the device, the settings, the timestamp, and, if it's there, the precise GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken. One click on "Remove all metadata" strips it all out and gives you a clean copy to download, pixel-for-pixel identical to the original.
Why This Matters: The Photo You Share Can Reveal Where You Live
Most people never think about EXIF data, but many phones tag every photo with GPS coordinates by default. That photo of your new couch you're posting to a marketplace listing, or the picture of your kids' first day of school you're sharing in a group chat, can carry the exact latitude and longitude of your home or your child's school — readable by anyone who downloads the original file and knows where to look.
This isn't a hypothetical. Journalists, security researchers, and plenty of embarrassed sellers have been tracked to their front door by metadata left in a single uploaded photo. The fix costs nothing and takes one click: strip the metadata before you share the file, not after.
What's Actually Inside a Photo's Metadata
| Group | Typical fields | What it reveals |
|---|---|---|
| Camera | Make, model, lens, ISO, aperture, shutter speed | Which device took the shot — rarely sensitive on its own |
| Photo | Date and time taken, dimensions, color space, software | When the photo was captured — can matter more than people expect |
| GPS location | Latitude and longitude | Exactly where the photo was taken — shown in red, the most sensitive field of all |
| Other | Orientation, thumbnail data, miscellaneous tags | Low-risk technical details, kept for completeness |
How to Read the Results
After you drop a file, this tool groups every EXIF field into Camera, Photo, and Other so you can scan it quickly instead of hunting through a raw tag dump. If the photo carries GPS coordinates, a red panel appears at the top of its results with the warning "This photo reveals its location" and the raw latitude/longitude values, so it's impossible to miss. If a photo has no EXIF data at all — say, it was already re-saved by another app — you'll see a green "This image is clean" message instead. That's a good outcome, not an error.
Removing Metadata Without Losing Quality
Clicking "Remove all metadata" — on a single file or on every ready file at once — rewrites the image container to drop the entire metadata block while leaving the pixel data completely untouched. A 4000×3000 JPEG stripped of its EXIF is still a 4000×3000 JPEG at the same visual quality; only the invisible data block shrinks, which is why the result card shows the file getting a little smaller, not different.
Supported Formats
This tool reads and strips EXIF in JPEG, PNG, and WebP files — the three formats where GPS and camera metadata are most commonly embedded and where it can be safely rewritten. If your file is a different format, run it through the Image Format Converter first, then come back to check and clean its metadata.
Your Files Never Leave Your Device
Both reading and stripping metadata run through a small WebAssembly module loaded into your browser tab. When you drop a file, its bytes are read locally and handed to that module — they're never sent anywhere over the network. Closing the tab discards everything; there's nothing left behind on a server because there was never a server involved in the first place.
If you need to change a photo's file format or resize it before or after cleaning its metadata, see the Image Format Converter and Image Resizer tools — both use the same on-device approach. For platform-specific image sizing (app icons, social banners, favicons), see the Logo & Image Resizer tools as well.