EXIF viewer and stripper
Drop a photo to see what it is telling everyone — where it was taken, when, on which device, with which serial number. Then download a copy with all of that removed and the picture itself untouched.
JPEG or PNG. The file is read in this page and never uploaded.
Stripped, not re-encoded
Almost every online metadata remover draws your photo onto a canvas and exports it again. That does remove the metadata, but it also throws away the original compressed data and makes a new, slightly worse JPEG — every time. This tool never touches the pixels. It walks the file's marker segments, drops the ones that carry metadata, and copies the rest byte for byte. The compressed image data in the file you download is the same as the one you put in, and the page checks that and tells you so.
What is actually in there
A photo from a phone usually carries the make and model, the exact date and time, the camera settings, the software that last touched it, and often the coordinates to within a few metres. Cameras with interchangeable lenses frequently add body and lens serial numbers, which tie every photo you have ever posted to the same piece of hardware. None of this is visible when you look at the picture.
Why there is no map
Showing your coordinates on a map means asking a tile server for the tiles around them, which hands your photo's location to whoever runs that server — precisely the thing you came here to avoid. So the coordinates are printed as text, and the map is a link you can choose to open. Clicking it sends the location to that map provider, which is your decision to make and not one this page should make quietly on your behalf.
What is kept
Colour profiles are kept. An ICC profile is not metadata about you; removing it changes how the picture looks, sometimes badly. JFIF density and the image structure itself are kept for the same reason. What goes is EXIF, XMP, IPTC, Photoshop resources and free-text comments — the segments that carry identity, location and history.
PNG is different
PNG has no EXIF segment in the JPEG sense; it stores metadata in text chunks, plus an optional eXIf chunk that newer software writes. Those chunks are dropped and every other chunk is copied unchanged, so the result is again bit-identical where it matters.
FAQ
Does stripping lose image quality?
No. The compressed data is copied, not re-encoded. That is the difference between this and a canvas-based remover, and the page verifies it on every file.
Does removing EXIF rotate my photo?
It can. Orientation lives in EXIF, so a photo that relied on it may appear sideways once stripped. If the tool sees a rotating orientation tag it says so before you download.
Do social networks not strip this already?
Most large platforms do strip EXIF on upload. Files you send by email, chat or cloud link usually keep it, and that is where photos leak.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. It is read with the browser's file reader and parsed here. You can check in your network tab, and the page works offline.
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