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Version:1.0.0
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What is EXIF data and why remove it?
EXIF is a block of metadata a camera writes into an image file alongside the pixels. It records the make and model of the device, the lens, the exposure settings, the exact date and time the shutter fired, the editing software that touched the file afterwards, and - if location services were on - the GPS coordinates of where you were standing. None of it is visible in the picture. All of it travels with the file when you email it, upload it, or hand it to someone on a USB stick.
The GPS field is the one that matters most. A photo taken at home and posted publicly carries a latitude and longitude accurate to a few metres. Every mainstream social network strips metadata on upload, which lulls people into assuming it is always gone - but a file attached to an email, uploaded to a forum, sent through a chat app that preserves originals, or published on your own site usually keeps every field intact.
This tool does two things. It reads the file and shows you what is actually in there - a table of every metadata block with its size, the decoded camera and timestamp fields, and the GPS position in decimal degrees if one is present. Then it removes those blocks and gives you the file back. Both steps happen in your browser: the image is read with FileReader and never sent anywhere, which is the only sensible arrangement for a tool whose whole purpose is privacy.
The removal is lossless. A common approach is to draw the image onto a canvas and export it again, which does drop the metadata - but it also re-encodes every pixel, so a JPEG comes back visibly degraded, a PNG loses its bit depth and palette, and the colour profile is reinterpreted. Instead this tool edits the container: JPEG marker segments, PNG chunks and WebP RIFF chunks are containers of tagged blocks, and the metadata ones can be cut out while the compressed image data is copied through byte for byte. Your pixels come back identical.
The colour profile is treated separately and kept by default. An ICC profile is not metadata about you - it tells the display how to interpret the colours, and dropping it can visibly shift a wide-gamut photo. It is offered as an explicit option rather than swept up with the rest.
How to remove EXIF data from a photo
1
Choose an image
Drop in a JPEG, PNG or WebP, or click to browse. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded.
2
Read what is in it
The report lists every metadata block and decodes the camera, timestamp and GPS fields. A location, if present, is shown in decimal degrees.
3
Decide about the colour profile
Everything strippable is removed by default. The ICC profile is kept unless you ask for it, because removing it changes how colours render.
4
Download the clean file
Save the stripped image. Re-open it here to confirm the report comes back empty.
What it reads and removes
GPS coordinates in plain decimal degrees
Latitude and longitude are converted from the raw degree/minute/second rationals so you can see the actual position, not three unlabelled numbers.
Lossless removal, not a canvas re-encode
Metadata blocks are cut from the container while the compressed image data is copied byte for byte, so the pixels are unchanged.
JPEG, PNG and WebP
JPEG APP segments and comments, PNG tEXt/iTXt/zTXt/eXIf/tIME chunks, and WebP EXIF/XMP RIFF chunks - including the VP8X flag bits that must be cleared with them.
Colour profile kept by default
An ICC profile describes the display, not the photographer. It is preserved unless you explicitly opt to remove it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not here. This tool cuts the metadata blocks out of the file container and copies the compressed image data through untouched, so the pixels are bit-for-bit identical. Tools that re-draw the image on a canvas do lose quality, because that re-encodes every pixel.
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