Image Metadata Remover: Strip EXIF and GPS Data

Photos carry more than pixels. Phones and cameras embed EXIF metadata in every shot: the date and time, the device model and settings, often the exact GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken, and sometimes a preview thumbnail. Share such a file on a forum, a marketplace or by email and anyone who opens the details can read where you live or work.

The Metadata Remover rebuilds each image from its pixels only. The photo is decoded in your browser, drawn onto a clean canvas and encoded again, so EXIF, GPS, XMP and embedded thumbnails are simply not carried over. Camera orientation is applied first, so portrait photos stay upright. JPG and WebP are re-encoded at quality 95, which looks the same as the original; because the image is still the private file it was, nothing is uploaded at any point.

How to use the Image Metadata Remover (EXIF & GPS)

1. Drop your images onto the upload area, click it to choose files, or paste an image with Ctrl+V. This page accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and BMP files, many at once and up to 80 MB each.
2. Add the photos you want to clean. Quality 95 is preset so the result looks like the original; for PNG files set quality to 100 to keep them fully lossless, because lower values reduce PNGs to a 256-colour palette.
3. Download the cleaned files. To confirm what was inside before, open an original in the EXIF data viewer, then check a cleaned copy: the location and camera fields are gone.
4. Check the result with the before/after slider: drag the divider across the preview and read the new dimensions, file size, quality and percentage saved underneath. Any change to the settings re-processes every image automatically.
5. Download a single image, or use Download all (ZIP) for the whole batch. Under More options you can also set a DPI value and a file-name pattern with {name}, {w} and {h}.

When to remove metadata

• Selling online. Product photos taken at home can reveal your address through GPS coordinates.
• Forums, blogs and social posts. Some platforms strip EXIF themselves, many smaller sites and messaging by email do not.
• Sending files to clients or employers. Remove device details and timestamps you do not intend to share.
• Slightly smaller files. Metadata and embedded thumbnails can add several kilobytes; for real size savings combine this with the image compressor.

Removing metadata also removes information you might want to keep, such as the capture date. Keep your originals in a private archive and share only the cleaned copies.

Private, free and fast

The whole job runs in your browser: images are decoded, resized and re-encoded on your own device, so nothing is uploaded to a server. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit, and location and camera data (EXIF) are removed from every result.