Remove EXIF Data
See exactly what your photos are carrying — GPS coordinates, camera serial, editing software, copyright — then strip it out. The image data itself is copied byte for byte, so removing metadata costs you no quality at all.
What is actually inside your photos
Every photo a phone or camera writes carries an EXIF block alongside the pixels. At minimum that is the make, model and firmware of the device and the exact second the shutter fired. If location services were on, it also holds latitude and longitude accurate to a few metres — enough to point at a home address. Editing apps add their own layers on top: XMP blocks, IPTC credits, Photoshop resource blocks, and plain text comments.
Most social networks strip this on upload, which lulls people into assuming it is gone everywhere. It is not: a file sent over chat, attached to an email, uploaded to a forum or handed over as evidence usually arrives with everything intact. This tool shows you the whole block first, so you can see what would have travelled with the file.
Why this is lossless, and when it is not
- JPEG, PNG and WebP all store metadata in containers that sit beside the compressed image data. We rewrite the container and copy the image data across untouched, so the result decodes to exactly the same pixels.
- That is different from re-saving a photo in an editor to clear metadata, which re-compresses it and permanently costs quality every time you do it.
- The one exception is the rotation option. Baking orientation into the pixels requires re-encoding, so it is off by default and clearly marked.
- The colour profile is kept unless you ask for it to go, because dropping it can visibly shift colours on wide-gamut screens.