remove-metadata

Your photos know where you live.

Phones quietly save your location, your device and the exact time inside every photo and video. Drop a file to see what it gives away, then save a clean copy. It all happens on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

Drop photos or videos here

or paste an image

JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC, AVIF, MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV. Any size.

What one ordinary phone photo gave away

Location
28.613912, 77.209006
Taken
31 Oct 2026, 11:42 PM (+05:30)
Phone
Apple iPhone 15 Pro
Lens serial number
F17XK2QNP0VW
Hidden preview
Small copy of the original, before you cropped it
Software
iOS 17.4.1

Anyone you send the original file to can read all of this.

How it works

What gets removed?

GPS location, date and time, phone or camera model and serial numbers, editing software, author and copyright fields, captions, embedded preview images, AI image prompts, hidden motion-photo clips, and GPS tracks recorded by action cameras and dashcams.

What stays?

The picture and the video exactly as they were, byte for byte. Nothing is re-compressed or re-encoded. By default two harmless settings stay too: the rotation flag, so your photo isn't shown sideways, and the color profile, so colors look identical. You can turn both off in Options.

Why is my cleaned video the same size?

Video metadata is overwritten in place with blank padding instead of being cut out, so nothing inside the file has to move. That keeps the video untouched and lets huge files be cleaned in seconds without filling up your memory.

How can I be sure nothing is uploaded?

There is no server to upload to, and the page is locked by a security policy that only lets it load its own code. Open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network tab, and clean a file: no requests appear. Or switch off your internet first. The code is open source and has no third-party dependencies, so anyone can read it.

Can I check a file from a link?

Yes, if the website allows it. Your browser downloads the file straight from that site, exactly like opening the link, with no middleman. Some sites don't let other pages read their files. For those, open the link, save the file, and drop it here. You can also share a check as ?url= followed by the link.

What does "Remove everything" do?

By default the rotation flag and color profile stay, because they are the same for millions of photos and removing them can make a picture look sideways or slightly off in color. Turn on "Remove everything" in Options and they go too, along with resolution and gamma hints, leaving only the image or video itself.

How do I know it worked?

After cleaning, every file is scanned again from scratch with the same reader that found the metadata. The count of what is left is shown next to each file.