About this tool
Most photos from phones and digital cameras carry a hidden block of EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) metadata inside the JPEG file itself — the camera or phone model, the exact date and time the shutter fired, and, if location services were on, the precise GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken. None of that is visible when you look at the image, but it travels along with the file wherever it goes.
This tool reads that metadata straight out of the raw file bytes — no upload, no server — by walking the JPEG's binary structure to find the APP1 marker segment that holds it, then decoding the camera make/model, timestamp, orientation, and GPS location (when present) so you can see exactly what your photo is quietly revealing about you. To remove it, the "download without metadata" button redraws the photo onto an HTML canvas and re-exports it as a fresh JPEG — canvas export never carries EXIF along, so the result is a visually identical copy with nothing left to find.
This is a genuine privacy tool, not just a curiosity. Photos shared to marketplaces, forums, or social media routinely leak GPS coordinates that pinpoint a home address, workplace, or a child's school — most people sharing them have no idea the data is even there. Everything here runs locally in your browser: the photo you drop never leaves your device, whether you're just viewing its metadata or downloading the cleaned copy.
Frequently asked questions
Do PNG or WebP images have EXIF data too?
Almost never in practice — EXIF is a JPEG/TIFF-era convention that phone and camera manufacturers universally use for JPEG output, but PNG and WebP rarely carry it (they have their OWN separate, much less commonly used metadata mechanisms). This tool is built specifically to read JPEG's EXIF structure; if you upload a PNG/WebP with no readable EXIF, that's expected — it usually genuinely doesn't have any metadata to show in this format, not a failure of the tool.
Does the strip feature also remove other hidden data, not just EXIF?
Yes, broadly — the "strip" feature works by fully redrawing the image onto a fresh canvas and re-encoding it from scratch, which naturally discards ALL metadata of any kind (EXIF, XMP, ICC color profiles, IPTC captions, embedded thumbnails, etc.), not just the EXIF tags this tool displays — so it's a genuinely clean copy, not a selective removal of only the visible fields.