Remove Metadata From Photos, PDFs & Media
See what your files reveal — EXIF, GPS, author names, hidden timestamps — and download clean copies. Photos are cleaned right in your browser.
Photos: 100% in-browser, never uploaded. PDF & media: cleaned over HTTPS, deleted instantly.
Drop a file here, or click to choose
Images · PDF · video · audio — one file up to 50 MB free, no sign-up
Photos never leave your browser (watch the Network panel). PDF, video and audio are cleaned over HTTPS and deleted immediately.
What a metadata remover does
Every file has two layers: the content you see, and a hidden record about it — when it was made, on what device, with what software, frequently where on Earth you were standing at the time. A metadata remover deletes that hidden record while leaving the content itself untouched, so you can share the file without sharing its paper trail.
This one handles more than photos. Drop a file in, see exactly what it's carrying — camera, timestamps, editing software, author names, GPS on a map — and download a clean copy. JPG, PNG and WebP are stripped losslessly right in your browser; PDFs, video and audio files are cleaned server-side over an encrypted connection and deleted the moment your download starts.
Why people clean their photos
The common cases are mundane and personal: selling furniture photographed in your living room, posting on forums under a pseudonym, sending documents to strangers, sharing family photos beyond the family. In each one, the image is meant to be seen — the coordinates of your home, the model of your camera, and your editing history are not.
Professionals have their own versions: agencies scrub client files before delivery, journalists protect sources, e-commerce sellers avoid mapping their own warehouse. The mechanics are identical, and so is the fix.
Privacy by architecture, format by format
Uploading a private photo to a server in order to make it more private is backwards. So for images, this site ships the cleaning code to your browser: photos are parsed, inspected and stripped on your own machine, and you can open DevTools and watch the Network panel while it happens — zero uploads, auditable on every visit.
Formats that browsers can't safely rewrite — PDF, video, audio — take the shortest server path possible: encrypted in transit, processed in a temporary workspace for the seconds the cleaning takes, streamed back, and deleted immediately. Nothing is stored, logged, backed up, or seen by anyone. The privacy promise is the same everywhere; only the mechanics differ by format.
Lossless by design
Image formats store metadata in separate, labelled sections of the file — EXIF and XMP segments in JPG, text and eXIf chunks in PNG, EXIF and XMP chunks in WebP's container. The remover deletes those sections whole and copies everything else through byte for byte. Your pixels are never decoded, never recompressed, never resized: the cleaned file renders identically to the original and is a little smaller.
If a damaged file can't be parsed structurally, the tool falls back to re-encoding and says so clearly — quality is never silently traded away.
Frequently asked questions
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No — photos are cleaned entirely inside your browser tab using JavaScript. You can verify this yourself: open DevTools, switch to the Network panel, and watch it while you clean a photo — zero file transfers. Only non-image formats (PDF, video, audio) use our cleaning server: encrypted in transit, processed immediately, deleted immediately, never stored.
What metadata gets removed?
The full hidden layer: EXIF (camera, lens, exposure, capture time, GPS coordinates and altitude, embedded thumbnails), XMP editing records, IPTC author/copyright fields, PNG text chunks and timestamps, and WebP EXIF/XMP chunks. The per-file report itemises what was found before you download.
Is it really free? What's the catch?
Cleaning one file at a time, up to 50 MB, is free with no account — that covers most everyday sharing. The paid tier exists for the heavy jobs: batches of files at once and files over 50 MB, via a subscription or credit packs that never expire. No ads, no watermarks either way.
Which formats are supported?
Images (JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP) are cleaned losslessly in your browser. PDFs and common video and audio formats (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, M4A) are cleaned server-side and deleted immediately. HEIC and Office documents are next on the roadmap.