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EXIF Viewer & Metadata Cleaner
See every camera, lens, GPS and software field hidden inside a photo — and strip them in one click.
What this tool does
Every photo your phone or camera produces carries a hidden metadata sidecar: camera make and model, lens, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, focal length, capture time, editing software, and — most importantly — GPS coordinates if location services were on when the picture was taken. This tool reads that metadata sidecar and shows everything on screen, then in one click re-encodes the file to strip every metadata field while keeping the visible pixels untouched. The whole pipeline runs locally on your device — no upload, no tracking, no logs, no copy of your photo on a third-party server. That privacy guarantee is the whole point of a metadata cleaner: if you were going to upload the photo to a stranger's server first, you would already have lost the location and serial-number information you are trying to remove. Useful before posting to social media, listing items on a marketplace, sending photos to a buyer, sharing screenshots that might leak filenames or device serials, or publishing pictures of children whose schools and homes you do not want geocoded by anyone curious.
How to view and remove EXIF data
- Drop a photo — JPG, PNG, TIFF and HEIC are all supported. The file is read locally; nothing is uploaded.
- Read the metadata — Camera, lens, exposure settings, capture time and GPS coordinates appear in the grid. Click the GPS row to open the location on OpenStreetMap.
- Switch to Strip mode — Click the Strip metadata tab, then the big button. The image is rewritten without its metadata channels — every EXIF, IPTC, XMP and GPS field is dropped while the visible pixels stay untouched.
- Download the cleaned file — Save the metadata-free version. The pixels look identical, but EXIF, IPTC, XMP and GPS are gone.
How metadata is stripped
Stripping rewrites the image at its original dimensions, but with the metadata channels left empty. Every EXIF tag, every IPTC field, every XMP namespace, every GPS coordinate, every camera serial number is gone from the output file. PNG sources are re-encoded losslessly so the pixels are bit-for-bit identical to the original; JPG sources are re-encoded at quality 95, which is visually identical for every photo we have tested. Color profiles attached as ICC chunks are also dropped, so very color-critical workflows (print prepress) may see a small shift — for those niche cases a desktop tool like exiftool is the right choice. For everyday privacy use — social media, marketplaces, family photos, screenshots — the cleaned file looks the same as the original to the human eye, just without the invisible location and device fingerprint baked in.
What metadata typically leaks
GPS coordinates are the biggest concern — modern phones embed precise lat/lng inside every photo unless you switch it off in camera settings. Beyond GPS, photos commonly carry the camera body serial number, the lens serial, the user's full name (if set in the camera), the editing software and version, the original capture timestamp down to the second, and (on Macs) the iCloud library identifier. Screenshots can leak app names, file paths and OS build numbers. Stripping metadata before sharing is the simplest privacy win — and it costs you nothing visually.