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About this tool

There are plenty of metadata removers. Most of them share the same three problems, and this one was built to avoid them.

The three problems

  1. Many of them upload your files. A privacy tool that requires you to send your geotagged photo to a stranger's server has an obvious contradiction at its centre. Some are upfront about it; some are not.
  2. Nearly all of them re-encode your image. Stripping metadata by drawing the image onto a canvas and exporting it is easy to build, and it re-compresses your photo every time. You are asked to trade quality for privacy, and the trade is never mentioned.
  3. None of them prove anything. You get a success message. You do not get to see what is left.

What this does instead

  • Nothing is uploaded. There is no server-side component at all. You can verify this in the Network panel, or by using the tool with your network disconnected.
  • Nothing is re-encoded. Each format gets a parser that understands its container, so metadata blocks are removed while the compressed pixel data is copied through byte for byte.
  • Every result is verified. The finished file is parsed again from scratch, and the pixels are compared against the original. You can download the audit as a report.

What it will not do

Some tools in this category modify your pixels slightly to break the fingerprints that platform AI detectors rely on. That is not implemented here, and it will not be. It degrades your image, and its purpose is to mislead a system built to label content accurately.

The line is straightforward: this tool exists to show you what a file says about you and to remove it cleanly. It is a privacy tool, not an evasion tool. More on that reasoning in theAI metadata and C2PApages.

Cost

The tool is free and has no paid tier. Because processing happens on your device, running it costs almost nothing — there is no per-file compute to recover. Advertising covers hosting, and is kept out of the tool's workflow.

Getting in touch

A file it handled badly is the most useful thing you can send — that is how format support gets fixed. The contact page lists what to include, and where security disclosures should go.