Remove EXIF and GPS data from your photos
Every photo your phone takes carries hidden data: where it was taken, when, and with what. Strip all of it here — without sending the photo to anyone.
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Nothing here is uploaded. Disconnect from the internet and the page keeps working.
What is actually hidden in a photo
A JPEG from a phone typically carries an EXIF block containing:
- GPS coordinates — often accurate to a few metres, which for a photo taken at home means your home address.
- Date and time the shot was taken, to the second.
- Device make, model and serial-level identifiers, plus lens and firmware.
- Exposure settings, orientation, and sometimes an embedded thumbnail that survives cropping — an old and genuinely dangerous quirk, because the thumbnail can still show what you cropped out.
- Editing history and author fields added by photo software.
Big social networks strip most of this on upload. Almost nothing else does: files sent over email, chat apps in "send as file" mode, marketplace listings, forums, job applications and cloud folders all pass EXIF through untouched.
Why doing this offline matters
There is a contradiction at the heart of every online metadata remover that uploads your file: to hide the location of a sensitive photo, you first send that photo — location intact — to a stranger's server. Whatever the privacy policy says, the data has left your control.
This page never sends it. The image is decoded to raw pixels in your browser and re-encoded from those pixels alone; every metadata block is left behind in the process. You can verify it: load the page, disconnect from the internet, and strip your photos anyway. It still works, because there was never a server involved.
How to check the result
On Windows, right-click the file → Properties → Details. On macOS, open it in Preview and choose Tools → Show Inspector. The camera, date and GPS sections that were populated in the original will be empty in the cleaned copy.
Questions
+ Does this remove GPS location?
Yes. GPS latitude, longitude and altitude are part of the EXIF block, and the output is rebuilt from pixels only, so none of it carries over.
+ Is the visible image changed?
The pixels are re-encoded, so at the default 92% quality the difference is invisible in normal viewing. Choose PNG output if you want a mathematically lossless copy with no metadata.
+ Does it remove the embedded thumbnail?
Yes. The stale thumbnail that can reveal a pre-crop version of the photo does not survive re-encoding.
+ Can it strip metadata without recompressing?
Not in a browser, no — an honest answer rather than a marketing one. Editing the JPEG container in place requires a desktop tool such as exiftool. Re-encoding at 92% or exporting to PNG gets you a clean file with no perceptible loss.
+ Is anything logged?
No. There is no server-side processing, no analytics cookie and no account. The page cannot log what it never receives.