EXIF viewer and metadata stripper
Read the camera, date and GPS coordinates buried in a photo, then download it stripped clean.
Nothing leaves your browser. This tool does its work on your own machine — there is no upload, no server request, and nothing is stored.
Choose an image, drop one here, or paste with Ctrl+V
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC. The image is read on your own machine and never uploaded.
What a photo knows about you
When a camera writes a file, it writes far more than pixels. The EXIF block records the make and model of the device, the exact date and time to the second, the exposure settings, often the lens and its serial number, sometimes the camera's own serial number, and — if location services were on — the latitude and longitude where the shutter fired, usually accurate to a few metres.
None of that is visible when you look at the picture. All of it travels with the file when you email it, upload it, or send it as a message attachment.
The consequences are not hypothetical
- A photograph taken at home and posted anywhere carries your address.
- A serial number links every photograph a camera has ever taken, including ones posted under a different name.
- A timestamp contradicts a story about when something happened — useful when checking somebody else's claim, and a problem when it is yours.
- For anyone whose safety depends on their location staying unknown, this is the single most common way it stops being unknown.
Why not just re-save it?
Opening a JPEG in an image editor and saving it again does remove the metadata, but it also re-compresses the picture and degrades it slightly every time. This tool removes the metadata blocks from the file structure directly and leaves the compressed image data untouched — so the file that downloads has exactly the same pixels as the one you loaded, with nothing written around them. The result is usually a little smaller, and never visibly worse.
Does uploading somewhere strip it for me?
Usually, but not reliably enough to depend on. The large social platforms strip EXIF from the image they display. They do not always strip it from the original if the file is downloadable, they do not strip it when the file is sent as a document or an attachment rather than as a photo, and smaller sites, forums, marketplaces and messaging apps vary enormously. Stripping it yourself means never having to know which case you are in.
When you want to keep it
Metadata is evidence as well as exposure. If you are documenting damage for an insurance claim, recording a scene, or keeping a photo as proof of when something happened, the timestamp and coordinates are the valuable part. Keep the original somewhere private and share the stripped copy.
Common questions
What personal information is inside a photo?
Typically the camera or phone model, the exact date and time, the editing software, and on phone photos taken with location on, GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres. A picture posted from home can carry your address.
Does posting to social media remove EXIF?
The big platforms usually strip it from the displayed image, but not always, not on every upload path, and not when the file is sent as a document or attachment rather than as a photo. Strip it yourself and you do not have to know which case you are in.
How do I remove EXIF from a photo?
Load it here and use the strip button. The image is re-encoded without any metadata block and downloaded straight from your browser. The pixels are unchanged; everything written around them is gone.