Remove image metadata
Strip EXIF, GPS location and camera details before you share a photo.
Drop your file here
It is processed on your device — nothing is uploaded.
Why strip it before sharing
A photograph carries more than the picture. Camera model, timestamp to the second, editing software and — when location services were on — the GPS coordinates of where you stood. Posting a photo of something for sale, or a picture from home to a forum, can publish an address you never meant to give.
Large social platforms strip this on upload. Marketplace listings, forums, email attachments, shared cloud folders and messaging apps sending "as a document" frequently do not.
How the stripping works
The image is decoded to raw pixels and re-encoded from scratch. The metadata is not overwritten or blanked — it is simply never carried across, because the new file is built from the picture alone. That is a stronger guarantee than editing fields out, since there is nothing left behind in a corner of the file.
The one trade-off
Re-encoding a JPEG means recompressing it, which loses a small amount of quality. The default of 92 makes this invisible in practice, but it is worth knowing that this is not a metadata-only edit — the pixels are genuinely written again. For an image you may need at maximum quality later, keep your original.
What survives, and what should
The picture, its dimensions and its colours. What goes is everything about the camera, the location, the timestamps and the editing history. Orientation is applied to the pixels before stripping, so a photo that displayed upright still displays upright afterwards — dropping the orientation flag without doing that is why some strippers hand back a sideways image.
Check first if you like
The metadata viewer shows exactly what a file is carrying before you decide.
Common questions
Does this remove GPS location?
Yes. The image is rebuilt from its pixels, so no location, camera or timestamp data carries across.
Will my photo look different?
Re-encoding costs a small amount of quality, invisible at the default setting. Keep the original if you may need full quality later.
Why did other tools leave my photo sideways?
They dropped the orientation flag without applying it first. Here the rotation is baked into the pixels before stripping, so it stays upright.
Do social networks not do this already?
The large ones do. Forums, marketplaces, email attachments and file-sharing links often do not.
Is my photo uploaded?
Not for ordinary sizes — the work happens in your browser.