Image Metadata Remover

Every photo you take carries hidden information. This free image metadata remover lets you strip image metadata in seconds, so you can remove metadata from a photo before you post it anywhere. When you upload a picture, the tool reads its embedded data, then re-encodes the image from raw pixels - the fastest, most reliable way to erase EXIF, GPS, XMP, and IPTC fields in one pass.

Why bother? Photos from phones and cameras often embed the exact GPS coordinates of where they were taken, along with the date, time, camera model, and software used. Anyone who downloads that image can read it. Using an exif remover to remove GPS from a photo keeps your home address, workplace, and daily routine private. Our tool flags exactly what it finds, reporting messages like "GPS location found and removed" or "EXIF camera data found and removed" so you always know what was cleaned.

AI-generated images carry their own hidden trail. Tools like Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, and NovelAI store the full prompt, seed, model, and sampler settings inside PNG text chunks. If you want to remove AI metadata from an image before sharing your work, this tool detects those chunks and wipes them out, counting how many text blocks it removed. The result is a clean copy with nothing but the pixels.

As a photo privacy tool, everything happens locally. There is no upload, no server, and no signup - the entire process runs in your browser using JavaScript and the HTML canvas. You can batch process multiple files at once and export each one as PNG, JPEG, or WebP. PNG output is lossless and visually identical to the original, while JPEG and WebP apply light, high-quality compression.

Want to see what is hidden inside an image before you strip it? Try our companion AI Image Metadata Viewer, which reads and displays EXIF data and AI generation prompts instead of removing them. Together, the two tools let you inspect and then clean any image with confidence.