No file-processing upload
Image bytes are read and cleaned locally. They are not sent to a server for processing.
AI Metadata Remover for Photos & AI Images
Remove supported EXIF, GPS, and AI metadata locally in your browser. Download a lossless copy, re-scanned before delivery.
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Processed on your device
Drop photos hereTap to choose photos
JPEG, PNG, static WebP
Cleaned automatically on this device. You can also paste images. · Up to 3 images · 15 MB each · 30 MB total
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Your image files stay on your device
Many metadata tools send files to a processing server. This cleaner reads, rewrites, and verifies supported image containers on your device instead.
Pageview analytics may run; the file workflow itself uploads nothing.
Lossless image output
Supported metadata containers are rewritten without decoding or recompressing the image. Compressed image data stays bit-for-bit identical, and every output is scanned again.
Free, with clear limits
Clean up to 10 images per day with no account or watermark. Pro raises batch limits and removes the daily image cap.
Check it in your browser
Open the Network panel
Open browser developer tools and select Network before choosing a sample or your own image.
Inspect and clean an image
The workbench reads the file locally and starts a local worker when you approve cleaning.
Confirm the result
You should see local application resources, but no request body containing the file or its metadata.
How to remove metadata from your images
From photo to clean copy in seconds: two clicks, three steps.
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Add your photos
Drag and drop, click to browse, or paste from the clipboard. Add up to three JPG, PNG, or WebP images at a time.
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See what was hiding
The tool shows supported metadata found in each image, including GPS, camera details, timestamps, and AI prompts. It removes that data locally, then re-scans the output.
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Download the clean copy
Save photos one by one, or grab everything at once as a ZIP. Originals on your device are never modified.
Free for everyday cleanup. Pro for batch delivery.
Clean up to 10 images a day free. Pro removes the daily limit and adds folder selection plus a share-safe batch report.
Free
For occasional cleanup. No account and no card required.
$0
No card · no account
- Up to 3 images per batch
- 15 MB per image · 30 MB per batch
- Up to 10 images per day
- Individual downloads and local ZIP
Pro
Best value25-image batches, folder selection, and a share-safe delivery report.
$4.99/ monthBilled yearly
About $4.99 per month. Billed once a year at $59.90.
Save about 50% with annual billing
$118.80 with monthly billingSave $58.90
Cancel anytime. Pro stays active until the end of your paid period, then the cleaner returns to free limits.
Everything in Free, plus
- No daily image limit
- Up to 25 images per batch
- 25 MB per image · 100 MB per batch
- Select an entire folder at once
- Local ZIP with a share-safe JSON batch report
Processed locally; files stay on your device
Originals are never overwritten
Every output is re-scanned before delivery
Image processing stays local. Account and payment requests never include file content, file names, metadata values, hashes, or report contents.
What's hiding in your images?
Every image from a phone, camera, or AI generator can carry invisible metadata. When you share the original file, that data may go along:
- GPS location
Exact coordinates of where the photo was taken, sometimes precise enough to reveal a home or workplace.
- AI generation data
Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI PNGs can carry prompts, seeds, models, and workflows in plain text.
- Content Credentials (C2PA)
Provenance markers live outside ordinary EXIF. This local marker scan is conservative and is not cryptographic validation.
- Date and time
Capture and edit timestamps can reveal routines, whereabouts, and workflow history.
- Device details
Phone or camera make and model, lens details, and sometimes a serial number.
- Software traces
Editing apps, IPTC records, XMP packets, comments, and generator-specific fields.
- Hidden extras
Multi-picture and motion-photo payloads can sit outside the primary image. This tool rejects them rather than silently discarding attached media.
Do social media platforms strip EXIF data for you?
Many people assume Instagram, Facebook, or X will remove photo metadata automatically. Sometimes they do, for the copies other people see. But that behavior is not something you control, and it does not cover every way a photo leaves your device. Here is what actually happens.
Most large platforms strip EXIF from public copies
When you post a photo, major social networks typically re-encode it and remove most EXIF data from the version shown to other users, mainly to save bandwidth, not to protect you. None of this is guaranteed: the behavior is undocumented, differs between platforms and features, and can change with any update. What a platform strips today is a side effect, not a promise you can rely on.
Your uploaded original may stay on their servers
Stripping metadata from the public copy says nothing about the file you uploaded. Platforms can retain the original, including its GPS coordinates, timestamps, and device details, on their servers for processing, moderation, or analytics, subject to their own policies. Once a file leaves your device, you cannot inspect what is kept or for how long. The only version you can fully account for is the one you cleaned before uploading.
Direct sharing skips platform stripping entirely
Email attachments, cloud-drive links, AirDrop, and messenger options that send the "original" or "document" version deliver your file byte-for-byte, metadata included. Forwarding a photo someone sent you passes their metadata along too. These everyday channels involve no platform re-encoding at all, so GPS positions, capture times, and device details travel exactly as they were stored in the file.
Clean locally before sharing: the step you control
You cannot audit a platform's servers, but you can verify a file on your own device. Removing supported metadata from photos locally, before they leave your machine, is the one step in the chain you fully control and the only one you can independently double-check. This AI metadata remover does that in your browser and re-scans every cleaned copy so you can see the result.
How to verify your metadata is really gone
This tool re-scans every cleaned copy with the same scanner that inspected the original. But a privacy tool should not ask for blind trust. You can confirm the result yourself with independent, third-party tools on your own computer. Here are three common ways to check.
exiftool photo.jpgExifTool: the reference command-line check
ExifTool is the free, widely trusted standard for reading image metadata. After installing it, run exiftool photo.jpg on your original and again on the cleaned copy, then compare the two listings. GPS positions, timestamps, camera details, and other supported metadata removed by this tool should no longer appear in the cleaned file. A few structural fields, like image dimensions, are part of the image itself and always remain.
Windows: check file properties in Explorer
On Windows, right-click the cleaned file, choose Properties, then open the Details tab. Explorer lists common EXIF fields such as camera model, date taken, and GPS. Compare it with the original file's Details tab; entries that held personal information should now be blank. Explorer shows only a subset of metadata, so ExifTool remains the more complete check.
macOS: use the inspector in Preview
On a Mac, open the cleaned image in Preview, choose Tools, then Show Inspector, and click the info tab. If the original showed EXIF or GPS panes, compare the two files side by side: the GPS tab should be gone and the EXIF listing reduced to structural basics. Preview reads the file directly, so it is a quick independent confirmation.
What the built-in re-scan does and doesn't
After cleaning, this tool automatically re-scans the output with the same scanner used for inspection and shows what remains. That confirms the supported metadata categories, including EXIF, XMP, IPTC, PNG text, comments, and consented provenance markers, were removed. It cannot vouch for anything outside its supported scope, such as pixel watermarks, so independent checks are always welcome.
Batch remove EXIF from up to three photos
Cleaning photos one by one gets tedious fast. This image metadata remover accepts a small batch of up to three JPEG, PNG, or static WebP files and cleans them automatically in your browser. Every clean copy is re-scanned before download, and your original files are never overwritten.
Automatic cleaning, one file at a time
Add up to three images and the cleaner processes them sequentially, entirely on your device. Each file gets its own summary: what supported metadata was found, what was removed, and what the re-scan of the output shows. Nothing hides behind a single "done" message. You can review the result for every photo before downloading it.
Download the whole batch as one ZIP
With two or more cleaned images, the workbench can package all the clean copies into a single ZIP archive built locally in your browser, like everything else. One download instead of three, with each file inside remaining an individually cleaned, re-scanned copy. You can still download any file on its own if you prefer.
Paste images straight from your clipboard
Screenshots and copied images don't need to be saved first. Copy an image, focus the page, and paste. Supported files enter the same inspect-and-clean flow as dropped or browsed files. It's a quick way to strip supported metadata from a screenshot before it goes into a chat, a bug report, or a post.
Honest limits, checked before anything runs
Free includes up to 10 images per day. Each image may be up to 15 MB, with a 30 MB total batch limit. The local usage record contains no file details. A separate pre-check rejects images above 40 megapixels. Unsupported formats such as HEIC, RAW, or animated images are refused clearly and never uploaded.
Guides
Understand what metadata removal covers, where it stops, and how to verify the result.
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Three-layer verification
Confirm metadata removal with the built-in re-scan, an ExifTool cross-check, and file sanity checks.
Read the guide02
AI image metadata boundaries
See what ComfyUI, AUTOMATIC1111, and InvokeAI may embed, where C2PA fits, and what lives beyond metadata containers.
Read the guide03
PDF Info vs XMP metadata
Learn how Info dictionaries and catalog XMP differ, what the qpdf rewrite covers, and where signatures set the boundary.
Read the guide