Clean the metadata
See the location, device and date recorded in your photo, then strip it. The picture is never re-compressed.
What is inside the file
How to use it
Drop the photo in
Drag it into the area above or click to choose.
See what is in there
The tool lists whatever the file actually holds; it does not guess. The risky fields — location, serial number — are marked separately.
Download the clean copy
On JPG and PNG the cleaning is lossless: the picture is not re-compressed, only the metadata is taken out.
What metadata is, and why it matters
The label attached to the picture
When you take a photo your phone does not only save the picture; it writes a label beside it: the GPS coordinates where it was taken, the device make and model, the serial number, the date and time, the software used — sometimes even the owner's name.
It travels with the photo
The product photo you put on a classifieds site, the screenshot you post on a forum or the frame you send to someone can carry the coordinates of your home along with it.
Worth knowing
The orientation tag goes too
Some photos carry a “display this rotated 90°” note in their metadata. When that note is removed the photo can look sideways. If that happens, run it through Image Converter first: that tool bakes the orientation into the picture permanently.
What is in the frame stays
If your house number is visible in the photo, it is still there; this tool only cleans the file's label.
Not everywhere cleans it
Social networks already strip metadata on upload — but classifieds sites, forums, email attachments and cloud sharing links mostly do not.
Common questions
Why did the file size barely drop?
Metadata is usually somewhere between a few hundred bytes and a few kilobytes. The goal is not a smaller file, it is a clean label. If you want size, use Compress Image.
No location came up — does my photo have no GPS?
Probably not. If location services are off for the camera, or the photo has already passed through another app, the GPS block may never have been written. The tool shows what is in the file; it does not guess.
Can the removed data be recovered?
Not from the file you download — that information is no longer in it. If the original file is still on your computer, it of course still holds it.
Why would I keep the colour profile (ICC)?
The ICC profile tells a screen how to render colour. Drop it and colours can shift on some displays; since it carries no location or device information, it is kept by default.