EXIF viewer & remover
See the hidden metadata your camera or phone tucked into a photo — including the exact GPS location — then download a clean copy with all of it removed. Everything happens in your browser; the photo is never uploaded.
What EXIF data is
Every time a camera or phone takes a photo, it writes a block of hidden information into the file called EXIF. It records the camera or phone model, the date and time, the exposure settings, and — on most phones — the precise GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken. You never see it, but it travels with the file.
That location data is the part worth thinking about. A holiday photo is harmless, but a picture taken at home carries your home's coordinates, and sharing it directly can hand that address to anyone who looks. Removing the metadata before you post or send a photo closes that gap.
How this tool works
Drop in a photo and the tool reads its metadata and lists it, so you can see exactly what the file was carrying. To remove it, it redraws the image onto a fresh canvas and re-encodes it — a process that produces a file with no metadata at all, because canvas output never includes any. The photo's orientation is baked into the pixels first, so a picture that relied on a rotation flag still appears the right way up.
Because everything runs on your own device, your photo and its location are never sent anywhere. That matters most for exactly this task: it would defeat the point to upload a picture to a server in order to strip the location out of it.
A note on quality
For JPEG photos, re-encoding applies compression once more at high quality, which is visually identical to the original in normal use. PNG output is lossless. If you need to keep a byte-for-byte original as well, save the clean copy alongside it rather than replacing your master file.