Free EXIF Remover
NewThis free tool strips EXIF data — including GPS location — from photos in your browser without recompressing them, so the picture comes out pixel-identical and only the hidden information is gone.
Drop images here
JPG or PNG — add as many as you like
Runs entirely in your browser. Your images are never uploaded to a server.
How it works
- Drop one or more photos onto the box above, or click to choose them.
- The metadata is removed straight away and the panel lists exactly what came out of each file.
- Download the clean photo, or the whole batch as a ZIP.
Common use cases
- Removing your home coordinates from photos before listing something for sale.
- Stripping location from pictures of children before posting them publicly.
- Cleaning camera and software details from images before sending them to a client.
- Removing the original capture date from a photo before submitting it.
- Clearing metadata from a folder of images in one pass before publishing them.
Frequently asked questions
- Does removing metadata reduce the image quality?
- No, and this is the difference between this tool and most others. Many strip metadata by re-saving the photo, which recompresses it and loses quality every time. This edits the file container directly and copies the compressed image data across byte for byte, so the picture that comes out is pixel-identical to the one that went in.
- What exactly gets removed?
- EXIF and XMP blocks, comments, Photoshop and IPTC records, and any text or timestamp chunks in a PNG. That covers the camera, the settings, the dates, the software, and the GPS coordinates. The tool lists what it found in each file.
- What is deliberately kept?
- The color profile. An ICC profile in a JPG, or the gamma and color chunks in a PNG, describe how the colors should be displayed — removing them visibly shifts the image on a wide-gamut screen. They contain nothing personal, so they stay.
- Does this remove a watermark or anything visible?
- No. Metadata is invisible information stored alongside the picture. Anything you can see is part of the image itself and is not touched.
- Is the location definitely gone?
- Yes — the whole EXIF block is removed rather than blanked, so there is nothing left to recover. You can confirm it by running the result through the EXIF viewer, which should report no metadata found.
- Are my photos uploaded to a server?
- No. The files are read and rewritten entirely by your own browser. They never leave your device, and nothing is stored — which is rather the point for a tool people use on private photos.