Image tool
Remove metadata from images
Photos carry more than the picture. A phone snapshot typically records where it was taken, when, and on which device. This removes that data and leaves the image itself untouched — not re-compressed, not re-encoded, identical to the byte.
- 100% free
- No signup
- Batch convert
Drop your files here
or click to browse from your device
Supports JPG, PNG · Max 50 MB per file · Up to 100 files
You can also paste a copied image with Ctrl+V / ⌘V
- Secure & privateYour files are never shared
- Lightning fastMost images in under a second
- High qualitymozjpeg and libvips under the hood
- Works everywhereAny device, any browser
Output quality
There is no quality setting here because there is no quality decision to make. Every other tool on this site decodes your image and encodes it again; this one does not. It walks the file structure, drops the segments that carry metadata, and writes the remaining bytes out unchanged. A JPG comes back with the identical compressed scan data it arrived with, so you can run it on a photo you have already edited without spending another generation of compression. Colour profiles are deliberately preserved.
See what this tool actually did to real files — median size change, speed and sample size, published whichever way the numbers fall.
Privacy and file deletion
- Your image is never decodedWe edit the file structure and copy the compressed picture data across untouched. No decoder ever sees your photo.
- Deleted on a timerUploads are removed within 2 hours and finished results within 24 hours, whichever comes first.
- Nobody looks at themNo one browses uploads, nothing is shared with third parties, and no file is used to train anything. The only thing kept past deletion is the size and timing of the job.
- Encrypted in transitEvery request runs over HTTPS, so the file is encrypted between your device and our server.
Full privacy policyHow the system is builtWhat we measure, and why it is kept
Input, output and limits
Every figure below is read from the same configuration the server enforces, so this page cannot promise a limit the system will refuse.
- Input formats
- JPG, PNGWhat is JPG?What is PNG?
- Output format
- Same format as the input file
- Maximum file size
- 50 MB per file
- Maximum resolution
- 80 megapixels (about 8,944 × 8,944 pixels)
- Batch processing
- Yes — several files at once, downloaded as one ZIP
- Price
- Free, with no account and no watermark
- Processing
- On our server in Singapore (AWS ap-southeast-1), then deleted automatically
- Engine
- Direct container editing — the image data is never decoded
- File retention
- Uploads deleted within 2 hours, results within 24 hours
Common use cases
Posting a photo taken at home
Most phones write the exact coordinates into every picture. Some platforms strip that on upload and some do not — removing it first means you do not have to know which.
Sending images to a client or a marketplace
Camera serial numbers and editing history are in there too. For anything sent to a stranger, the picture is what you meant to share and the rest is not.
Cleaning a folder before archiving it
Batch mode applies the same removal to every file at once, and because nothing is re-encoded the originals lose nothing in the process.
Troubleshooting
- It says the file was already clean
- That is the honest result — the image carried no metadata blocks to remove. Screenshots and images exported by web tools usually have none to begin with.
- My WEBP or AVIF file was rejected
- Only JPG and PNG are accepted here. Those two have container formats we can edit safely without re-encoding; for the others, converting with WEBP to JPG or WEBP to PNG also drops the metadata, at the cost of one encode.
- The photo still shows a date in my file manager
- That is usually the filesystem timestamp, not EXIF — it comes from when the file was written to your disk, and it is not part of the image.
Something else went wrong? Tell us what happened — a person reads every report, and that is how this list gets longer.
Frequently asked questions
Browse image toolsWhat exactly gets removed?
The EXIF block, which is where GPS coordinates, capture time, camera make and model and serial numbers live; XMP and IPTC records, which carry author and copyright fields; and plain-text comments. In PNG files that means the tEXt, zTXt, iTXt and eXIf chunks.
Does it re-compress my photo?
No, and that is the point. We read the file structure and remove the blocks that hold metadata, then copy the compressed image data across untouched. The pixels in the file that comes back are bit-for-bit identical to the ones you sent.
Is anything kept?
Yes — colour information. The ICC colour profile and the Adobe colour transform block are kept, because removing them changes how the image looks on a calibrated screen. They are not personal data. The same applies to gamma and transparency records in PNG.
Why does the file size barely change?
Metadata is usually a few kilobytes against a photo of several megabytes. A small drop is normal and does not mean it failed. If nothing was removed at all we say so, which means the file was already clean.
What do you see of my photo while removing its metadata?
Less than any other tool here — the image itself is never decoded. We read the file structure, drop the blocks holding EXIF and comments, and copy the compressed picture data across untouched. Files up to 50 MB are accepted, several at a time. Your upload is deleted within 2 hours and the result within 24, whichever comes first.
About these formats
- JPGJPG (also written JPEG) is a lossy image format that discards visual detail the eye is least likely to notice, which is why photographs stored as JPG are typically 5–15 times smaller than the same image stored losslessly..
- PNGPNG is a lossless image format: it stores every pixel exactly as it was saved, supports a full alpha transparency channel, and never degrades no matter how many times the file is opened and saved again..