Free metadata scrubber · nothing is uploaded
See what your photo is carrying. Then take it out.
Every photo holds more than the picture: where it was taken, when, on what device, sometimes by whom. Drop a photo below to read all of it in plain language — then download a cleaned copy with the metadata stripped out, and a re-scan that proves the copy is clean.
Drop an image here, or click to choose one
JPEG, PNG and WebP get a byte-level strip (image data untouched). Other formats can be cleaned by re-encoding. The file is read locally — it is never uploaded.
What gets removed — and what never does
The scrubber removes the metadata stores: the EXIF block (camera settings, timestamps, artist, serial numbers, the GPS block and the embedded thumbnail), the XMP packet (creator names and edit history), Photoshop's data block, JPEG comments, PNG text chunks, and the C2PA/JUMBF provenance store. It keeps the structural pieces a file needs to stay a valid image — and, for formats like JPEG, the colour profile, so the picture looks exactly the same.
One honest limit: metadata is not the only thing that can identify a photo. The image content itself — a street sign, a reflection, a distinctive room — is still in the picture, and no scrubber can remove that. Scrubbing removes what the file says about you, not what the scene shows.
Questions
What metadata can a photo reveal about me?
A typical phone photo can carry the exact GPS coordinates where it was taken, the date and time, the phone or camera model, the app that edited it, the photographer's name if one was set, and in some cases the device's serial number. Any of it can be read by anyone you send the file to — the scrubber above shows you every field in plain language before you share.
Does stripping metadata change my photo's quality?
No. For JPEG, PNG and WebP files this tool removes metadata segments and chunks at the byte level and copies the image data itself untouched — there is no re-encoding, so pixels and quality are identical. For other formats the fallback is a re-encode, and the tool says so clearly before you use it.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The reader and the scrubber are JavaScript that runs in your browser; the file never leaves your device. You can confirm it in your browser's network panel — dropping a photo makes no upload request.
How do I know the cleaned copy is really clean?
The tool proves it instead of asking you to trust it: when you download the cleaned copy, the file is re-scanned with both of this site's readers — the metadata reader and the disclosure checker's provenance engine — and the before/after field counts and remaining signals are shown. If anything survives the strip, the proof box says so.
Do messaging apps remove metadata for me?
Some do and some don't, and it varies by how you send: many apps strip EXIF from photos sent as compressed images but keep everything when you send the photo as a file or document, and email generally keeps it all. The only reliable approach is to check the actual file — which is what the reader above does.
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