Photo Metadata viewer and cleaner.

See what a picture gives away, such as where and when it was taken, then save a clean copy.

Runs in your browser. Your photo never leaves this device. It is read here and cleaned here.

Check a photo What it can reveal

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What is hiding in your photo?

Drop a JPEG, PNG or WebP. See the hidden details, and download a copy with all of them removed. The picture itself is not touched.

Drop a photo here, or choose oneJPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC (view only). It stays on your device.

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What it can reveal

A photo says more than it shows.

Where

GPS to within metres.

Phones record the exact position by default. A photo posted from home can show where you live, and many sites keep that data when you upload.

Which device

Make, model and serial number.

Cameras record the model and often a serial number. A serial number can tie photos from different places to one camera, or one owner.

When

The exact second.

Date and time of capture, and sometimes the time zone offset. Together with location, that gives a record of where someone was and when.

Assuming social sites remove it.Many large platforms strip location when you post, but email, cloud links, forums and messaging apps often do not. Clean photos before you share them directly.

Screenshots are not always clean.They drop the original camera data, but a screenshot of an AI image or an edited file can carry its own text and software tags.

Re-saving the picture to clean it.Re-encoding a JPEG lowers quality. This tool removes the metadata blocks directly, so the image data stays identical.

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