EXIF Remover
Strips camera, GPS and editing metadata from photos while leaving the pixels untouched.
Removing metadata by opening a photo in an editor and saving it again works, and it also re-encodes the image — you lose quality to solve a problem that has nothing to do with the pixels. This rewrites only the container around the compressed data, so the JPEG comes out at exactly the quality it went in.
The pixels are copied through byte for byte. Nothing is decoded and nothing is re-encoded, so a JPEG comes back at exactly the quality it went in at — only the framing around the compressed data is rewritten.
Drop JPEGs or PNGs
Other formats need a re-encode to strip, which would change the pixels — so they are not accepted here.
How to use it
Decide about the colour profile
It names the software and often the device, so it is metadata — but dropping it makes a Display P3 photo render over-saturated on a wide-gamut screen. A real trade, which is why it is a checkbox rather than a default.
Drop JPEGs or PNGs
Only these two, because they are the formats whose metadata can be removed without decoding. Anything else would need a re-encode, which changes the pixels.
Read what each row says it removed
The tag count, the named segments, and specifically whether GPS coordinates and an embedded thumbnail were among them.
Common questions
Does this reduce the image quality?
No. The compressed image data is copied through byte for byte; nothing is decoded and nothing is re-encoded. Only the framing around it is rewritten.
Why will it not accept my HEIC or WebP?
Their metadata cannot be lifted out without rebuilding the file, which in practice means decoding and re-encoding — the loss this tool exists to avoid. Convert to JPEG first if you need to, and strip after.
Is stripping enough to make a photo anonymous?
It removes what the file says about itself, not what the picture shows. A street sign, a window reflection or a visible screen is still in the pixels, and sensor noise patterns can identify a camera even with every tag gone.
Feed it from
PNG Compressor
Quantises the palette and rewrites the deflate stream to shrink a PNG without changing its dimensions.
JPEG Compressor
Re-encodes a JPEG at a chosen quality with a live before/after size and a difference view.
Rotate & Flip
Rotates by 90° steps or an arbitrary angle and mirrors horizontally or vertically.
EXIF Viewer
Shows camera, lens, timestamp and GPS metadata embedded in a photo, as coordinates rather than on a map — drawing one would send the location to a tile server.
Next
These accept what this tool produces, so the result can go straight in.
EXIF Viewer
Shows camera, lens, timestamp and GPS metadata embedded in a photo, as coordinates rather than on a map — drawing one would send the location to a tile server.
Face Blur
Proposes face boxes from a skin-colour heuristic — no model, so it also finds hands and misses shaded faces — for you to confirm or draw over, then mosaics them by rewriting the pixels.
Metadata Scrubber
Removes author, device, GPS and revision metadata from documents, images, audio and video in one pass.
PNG Compressor
Quantises the palette and rewrites the deflate stream to shrink a PNG without changing its dimensions.
Background Remover
Keys out a flat or single-colour background in OKLab and returns a transparent PNG, with a brush for fixing the edges.
Favicon Generator
Produces the whole favicon set — ICO, PNGs, Apple touch icon, web manifest — plus the HTML to paste.