Skip to content
Allin
Sign up · Sign in

EXIF metadata cleaner

Strip EXIF/GPS metadata from a photo.

10 / 10 free files today

Related tools

All Privacy tools →
File encryptionEncrypt or decrypt any file with a password (AES-256).Django Secret Key GeneratorGenerate a cryptographically secure Django SECRET_KEY with your choice of length and character set.Password generatorGenerate a strong, random password — free and secure.WordPress Secret Key GeneratorGenerate the eight WordPress salt keys as ready-to-paste define() lines for wp-config.php.WPA Key GeneratorCreate strong Wi-Fi WPA/WPA2 passphrases (8–63 chars) with chosen character types and no ambiguous letters.

EXIF metadata cleaner is free to use as often as you like, directly from this page. It sits under Privacy in our catalogue, alongside File encryption and Django Secret Key Generator.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What does EXIF metadata cleaner do?

Strip EXIF/GPS metadata from a photo.

When would I actually use this?

Before sharing something: stripping the location and device data a photo carries, removing the metadata a document keeps, and checking what is actually left behind.

What is the most common mistake?

Assuming a screenshot is anonymous. It carries the interface around the content — names, timestamps, notification previews and account details in the corners — and those are read as readily as the part you meant to share.

What else is filed next to it?

File encryption, Django Secret Key Generator and Password generator share its section. They are not variants of it — being filed together is not the same as being alike — but that is where to look if this turned out not to be the tool you wanted.

Where do the figures come from?

Metadata is removed by rewriting the file without those segments — the pixels are untouched, only the tags around them go. What a given format stores varies, and the tool reports what it found before removing it.

Further reading

All guides →
How-toWhat EXIF Data Reveals, and How to Strip It ProperlyA photo file carries coordinates, an exact timestamp, the device and lens, and on some cameras a serial number. Here is what is actually in the block, what stripping does and does not fix, and how to verify it worked.ExplainerStripping Photo Metadata: What Actually Comes OffA JPEG can carry six separate metadata blocks, not one. We built a file holding all of them — coordinates, camera serial, a hidden thumbnail, XMP, IPTC, a comment — pushed it through the cleaner, and read the output byte by byte to see what survived.ExplainerWatermarking: What It Protects, and What It Does NotA visible mark lives in the pixels, so it survives every copy — and degrades the image for every honest viewer at the same time. Measured: what a corner mark costs, what a tiled mark costs, and how each compares to metadata credit, Content Credentials and invisible watermarking.GuideHiding a Face, a Plate or an IBAN in an Image — PermanentlyBlur and pixelation are reversible — not by undoing the maths, but by guessing forwards. Against this tool's own blur and pixelate modes, a recovery attack returned the hidden value at rank 1 of 10,000. Both modes have since been removed. Here is what is left, and why it cannot be attacked the same way.GuideEncrypt a File, Then Send the Key Down a Different RoadThe encryption is the easy half. Here is exactly what the browser tool does to your file — cipher, key derivation, salt, nonce — and why an encrypted attachment with the passphrase in the same thread protects nothing at all.GuideGenerating an Application Secret Key CorrectlyHow to tell a sound secret-key generator from an unsound one, using this one as a worked example: which random source it calls, how to compute the entropy yourself, and what actually breaks the day you rotate the key.