Keep locations private
Phone photos may reveal the exact coordinates of a home, school, workplace, or travel stop.
What is a metadata remover?
A metadata remover is a privacy tool that finds descriptive information embedded inside a file and creates a clean copy without that information. A photo can contain the camera model, exact capture time, editing software, copyright text, and even GPS coordinates. Documents and videos can also carry author names, creation dates, device details, and location strings that are invisible during normal viewing.
This metadata remover works locally in your browser. When you choose files, the browser reads their binary structure on your device, displays the fields it recognizes, and rewrites supported formats without the removable metadata blocks. Nothing is transmitted to us, there is no account, and the visible image or document content stays available for download. The result is useful before posting publicly, emailing a client, or sharing files with someone who does not need the hidden history.
What metadata is removed?
The cleaner targets privacy-sensitive descriptive blocks while preserving the visible file whenever the format allows lossless rewriting.
Why remove metadata?
Share a cleaner work product
Remove author, software, and revision clues before delivering files to a customer or publisher.
Avoid accidental disclosure
Hidden comments, thumbnails, dates, and device identifiers can expose more context than the visible file.
Prepare files for review
A clean copy reduces irrelevant metadata when a platform or reviewer only needs the actual content.
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How to remove metadata — 3 steps
Choose your files
Drag up to 20 supported files into the private browser workspace, or use the file picker.
Review what was found
See metadata grouped into camera, GPS, time, software, copyright, and raw technical fields.
Remove and download
Create cleaned files locally. Multiple results are bundled into a ZIP without leaving your device.
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Frequently asked questions
Is this metadata remover really free?
Yes. You can process up to 20 files at a time, with a 50 MB limit per file, without paying or creating an account. There is no daily quota. The limits protect browser memory and keep processing reliable on phones and older computers.
Do my files get uploaded?
No. File bytes are read by JavaScript running in your browser and are never sent to our server. The site has no upload endpoint. After the page loads, supported processing continues offline, and the completion message reports that zero bytes were uploaded.
What formats are supported?
Lossless metadata removal is available for JPEG, PNG, and WebP images. PDF information fields are cleaned locally. TIFF and HEIC metadata can be inspected when the browser decoder and parser support the file; unsupported removal is reported clearly instead of pretending it succeeded.
Does it work on iPhone photos?
Yes for common iPhone JPEG files, including GPS, date, camera, and software fields. HEIC inspection is best-effort because browser support varies. If a HEIC file cannot be rewritten safely, the tool explains the limitation and does not return a falsely labeled clean file.
Does removing metadata change image quality?
For JPEG, PNG, and WebP, the tool removes metadata containers without decoding and recompressing image pixels, so visible quality does not change. PDF metadata updates may restructure the document but do not intentionally alter page artwork. Any format requiring re-encoding is rejected.
Can I remove metadata from multiple files at once?
Yes. Select between 1 and 20 files. Each file is inspected independently, and successful cleaned copies are packaged into one ZIP when more than one file is processed. Errors remain attached to the affected file so a single problem does not hide other results.
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Last updated: November 3, 2026