EXIF Viewer & Remover
See what metadata your photos carry — and strip it without re-encoding
About this tool
Every photo your phone takes carries hidden metadata: camera model, capture time, editing software — and, unless disabled, the GPS coordinates of where you stood. This tool reads that metadata from JPEG, PNG and WebP files and shows it grouped and decoded: exposure values as f/2.8 and 1/250 s, orientation as words, GPS as decimal coordinates with a map link.
The cleaner produces a copy with metadata removed — losslessly. Instead of re-encoding the image (which costs quality), it removes the metadata segments byte-for-byte: EXIF and XMP blocks in JPEG, text and time chunks in PNG, EXIF/XMP chunks in WebP. Pixels, dimensions and quality are untouched; color profiles are kept so the image still renders identically.
This is the one tool category where "runs locally" is the entire point: checking a photo for GPS data by uploading it to a server would defeat the purpose. The file never leaves your browser — verifiable in the network tab.
Frequently asked questions
- Does removing metadata change image quality?
- No. The image data stream is copied bit-for-bit; only metadata segments are dropped. The cleaned file is smaller by exactly the metadata size, and pixels are provably identical.
- Why does my screenshot show no metadata?
- Screenshots and most exported-for-web images never had EXIF — cameras write it, screenshot tools mostly do not. Social media platforms also strip metadata on upload, so a photo downloaded from one is usually already clean.
- Is the GPS position exact?
- Phone GPS in EXIF is typically accurate to a few meters — enough to identify a building. The tool converts the stored degrees/minutes/seconds to decimal and links to the exact point, so you can see precisely what a recipient of the file could see.
- Why does the cleaned file keep an ICC color profile?
- The ICC profile tells software how to interpret the colors — stripping it can visibly shift them, and it contains no personal information. The cleaner removes identifying metadata (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments, timestamps) and keeps what the image needs to render correctly.