EXIF viewer & remover
See the hidden metadata in a photo (camera, GPS, date) — and download a clean copy with it stripped. No upload
Click to choose or drag & drop a photo
JPG, PNG, WEBP
How to use the EXIF viewer & remover
- Drop in a photo — JPG, PNG or WebP.
- Read the metadata table: camera make and model, lens, the exact date and time the photo was taken, editing software, exposure settings (aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length) and — if present — GPS coordinates.
- Treat a 📍 GPS location row as a red flag: coordinates are shown to five decimal places, which pins the spot to about a meter.
- Click Download cleaned image to save a copy rebuilt without any metadata. It's named like
photo-clean.jpg, so your original isn't overwritten. - See “None found”? The image carries no readable EXIF — screenshots and images exported from most apps are usually already clean.
Common uses
- Strip GPS coordinates before posting marketplace photos — pictures of furniture taken in your living room can otherwise reveal your home address.
- Clean photos before uploading them to forums, blogs or a personal site, which — unlike most big social networks — publish files exactly as given.
- Check what a photo will reveal before you send it: the when, where and even the editing software travel silently inside the file.
- Sanity-check images you receive — a “Date taken” or “Software” field can confirm (or contradict) when and how a picture was made.
Tips & limitations
- Cleaning rebuilds the file from raw pixels, so everything embedded goes — EXIF, GPS and any other metadata, including fields this viewer doesn't display.
- PNG input stays PNG (lossless). JPG and WebP are re-saved as JPG at 92% quality — a re-encode that's normally indistinguishable, but it is a second compression pass, and WebP transparency gets flattened onto white.
- Don't rely on platforms to do this for you: email attachments, cloud-drive shares and many messengers' “send as file” option pass metadata through untouched.
- Metadata is also how photo apps sort by date and place — keep your originals and share the cleaned copies.
How it's built & why it's safe
Metadata is parsed with exifr, an open-source EXIF library, which reads the TIFF/EXIF/GPS blocks directly from the file in your browser. Cleaning doesn't edit those blocks — the image is redrawn onto an HTML Canvas and re-encoded with toBlob, producing a brand-new file that contains pixels and nothing else. Both steps run entirely on your device: the photo is never uploaded, which is exactly what you want when the whole point is privacy.
Related tools: Image Converter · Image Compressor · Image Cropper
Further reading: What your photos reveal: EXIF data, GPS and how to remove them · Why Toolkit runs entirely in your browser (and why that matters)
Frequently asked questions
What personal data can hide in a photo?
Phones and cameras write EXIF automatically: GPS coordinates, the exact timestamp, camera and lens models, and often the software used to edit. None of it is visible in the picture, but anyone who gets the file can read it.
How precise is the GPS data in photos?
Typically within a few meters — easily enough to identify a building. This tool shows coordinates to five decimal places, about one-meter precision, so you can see exactly what a photo would give away.
Does cleaning reduce image quality?
PNGs are re-saved losslessly. JPGs (and WebP, which becomes JPG) are re-encoded at 92% quality — a subtle second compression you're unlikely to notice. Pixel dimensions never change.
Do social networks strip EXIF for me?
Most major platforms remove metadata from the copies they serve publicly — but they still receive your original, and email, file transfers and your own website don't strip anything. Cleaning before sharing is the only way to be sure.
Why does my image show no metadata?
Screenshots, exported graphics and images re-saved by apps usually carry no EXIF in the first place. Photos straight off a phone or camera are where metadata piles up — including location, if geotagging is on.
Is my photo uploaded for processing?
No. Reading and removing metadata both happen in your browser, and the file never leaves your device. That's deliberate — a metadata-stripping service that makes you upload private photos would defeat its own purpose.