Open a photo
This page shows you the metadata a camera or phone wrote into a JPEG or PNG — the make and model, the exposure settings, the date, and often the exact GPS coordinates where the picture was taken — and lets you save a copy with all of it removed. It needs JavaScript, because the file is read in your browser rather than on a server: that is the whole reason your photo never leaves the page.
.jpg or .png. It is read in the page;
nothing is sent anywhere.
Metadata blocks in the file
Every tag found
Why this matters
A photo taken on a phone usually carries far more than the picture. The EXIF block routinely holds the date and time to the second, the camera make, model and sometimes its serial number, and — if location services were on — the latitude and longitude to about a metre. Posting an unmodified photo of something in your home can publish your home address. Most social networks strip this on upload; email attachments, file shares and messaging apps generally do not.
What stripping actually does here
The file is treated as what it is: a chain of length-prefixed blocks. The
metadata blocks are dropped and every other block is copied
byte for byte. The image is never decoded and never
re-encoded, so the stripped copy is pixel-identical to the original and
loses no quality. For a JPEG that removes the EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comment
segments; for a PNG, the tEXt, iTXt,
zTXt, tIME and eXIf chunks.
What it deliberately leaves alone
- Colour profiles. An ICC profile is not metadata about you, and removing it changes how the picture looks on screen.
- The pixels. This tool cannot help with what is in the photograph — a street sign or a reflection identifies a place just as well as a coordinate does.
- Other formats. Only JPEG and PNG are understood. HEIC, WebP, TIFF and RAW files are refused rather than passed through untouched, because handing back a file this tool did not modify while implying it did would be the worst possible failure.
Privacy
There is no server side. The page makes no network requests once it has loaded, sets no cookies, stores nothing, and carries no analytics, no tag manager and no webfont. Your photo is read into memory in the tab and never sent anywhere. You can confirm all of that by reading the source of this page — it ships unbundled and unminified for exactly that reason.