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Remove Image Metadata

Strip EXIF, GPS coordinates and camera data before you share a photo. Some detail is discarded to fit the target format; how much depends on the format and your settings.

Not uploaded to any serverConverted on this deviceGone when you close the tabHow this works

Drop your files here

JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and 3 more formats · up to 120 MB each

or paste files from your clipboard

Ready when you are

Strip EXIF, GPS coordinates and camera data before you share a photo. Everything happens in this tab; nothing is sent anywhere.

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How to use it

1
Add your files
Remove Image Metadata works with JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, HEIC and HEIF. Drop them in, browse for them, or paste from your clipboard.
2
Choose your options
Tune quality — or leave the defaults, which are sensible.
3
Run it and download
Press the button and save the result. Everything happens on your device, and nothing is uploaded.

Privacy, in plain words

Is it safe? Your image is not uploaded anywhere

What “uploaded” normally means. On most online converters, pressing the button copies your file across the internet onto a computer owned by that website. That copy is what the word “upload” means, and it is the part nobody explains.

What happens instead. This site does not do it. There is no server here that receives files, so your image is read, converted and handed back by the browser you are using right now. It never travels — so there is no copy to store, read, leak or hand over.

Check it yourself in ten seconds

Turn off your Wi-Fi after this page has loaded, then convert a file anyway. It still works, because everything needed is already on your device.

The longer explanation of how this works, and the full detail of what is and is not stored on the privacy page.

Why this matters more than it sounds

Photographs carry more than what is in the frame — most also carry the time, the device and often the GPS coordinates where they were taken. It matters more than it sounds, because of what images usually are:

Screenshots of bank transfers

account details, and proof of what you paid whom

Medical scans and photographs

X-rays, results, images of a condition

Photographs of children

family pictures that should stay in the family

Passport and visa photos

biometric-grade images of your face

A file that is never sent cannot be kept, leaked, subpoenaed or used to train anything. That is a property of how this works, not a promise about how carefully it is run.

How Remove Image Metadata works

Strip EXIF, GPS coordinates and camera data before you share a photo. Everything happens inside this page: the file is read from your device into memory, processed there, and handed back as a download. It is never sent anywhere, and closing the tab discards it.

What it accepts: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, HEIC, HEIF. Files are identified by their contents rather than their name, so a mislabelled file is still handled correctly.
What happens to the data: The result is re-encoded, so some detail is discarded permanently. Starting from the original rather than from an already-processed file keeps that loss to one pass.
Size limit: Up to 120 MB per file. Because the work happens on your own machine, available memory is the real constraint — a laptop handles far more than a phone.

The settings, and what each one changes

Remove Image Metadata has one setting, and the default is chosen to suit the common case.

Quality: Higher keeps more detail but produces a larger file.

Worth knowing before you start

The image is fully re-encoded from raw pixels, so no metadata block survives. That also means a small re-compression cost — check the quality slider if the file matters.

Measured, not estimated

What this tool actually does to a file

Re-saving each photograph with no EXIF, GPS or colour-profile data attached. The fixtures carry little metadata to begin with, so this is close to the floor of what the tool can save you.

It depends entirely on the content: across the samples the result ranged from 4% smaller to 17% larger, with a middle case 3% smaller.

Each row is one document, chosen because this tool behaves differently depending on what is inside the file.
Sample	In	Out	Change
Smooth gradientContinuous tone with no detail — the easiest thing to compress, and where banding shows first.	12.5 KB	12.4 KB	−1%
Hard-edged text and UIHigh-contrast edges. This is where JPEG's ringing artefacts appear and where PNG wins.	90.9 KB	88.0 KB	−3%
Film-like noiseRandom detail. Incompressible by design — the worst case for every lossy codec.	209 KB	201 KB	−4%
Flat colour blocksLarge areas of one colour — a logo or a chart. Lossless formats should crush this.	4.9 KB	5.7 KB	+17%
Soft alpha edgeA transparent gradient. JPEG cannot store it at all, which is the single most common reason a conversion surprises someone.	14.3 KB	13.9 KB	−3%

Produced by a stand-in encoder. Your browser's own encoder has no equivalent outside a browser, so this was measured with the same codec at the same quality from a different implementation. Expect the shape of the answer to hold and the exact bytes to differ.

Samples are generated from a fixed seed rather than taken from real photographs or documents, so the corpus is reproducible and carries no licensing question — and so the numbers predict the shape of your result rather than its exact size. Measured 2026-10-01. The method, and the command that regenerates every figure on this page, are on the how it works page.

About these formats

Accepts

JPEG Image

The universal lossy photo format.

Extensions: .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif
MIME type: image/jpeg
Best for: Photographs · Email and messaging · Maximum compatibility
Compatibility: Opens everywhere — every browser, OS and device.

Accepts

Portable Network Graphics

Lossless image format with full alpha transparency.

Extensions: .png
MIME type: image/png
Best for: Transparency · Graphics and logos · Screenshots
Compatibility: Universally supported.

The image is fully re-encoded from raw pixels, so no metadata block survives. That also means a small re-compression cost — check the quality slider if the file matters.

Good to know

Remove Image Metadata — questions

How does Remove Image Metadata work?

Strip EXIF, GPS coordinates and camera data before you share a photo. Add your files above, adjust anything you want to change, and press the button. The result downloads straight to your device.

Is there anything I should watch out for?

The image is fully re-encoded from raw pixels, so no metadata block survives. That also means a small re-compression cost — check the quality slider if the file matters.

Is Remove Image Metadata safe — are my files uploaded to a server?

No, nothing is uploaded. On most online tools, pressing the button copies your file across the internet onto a computer owned by that website, where it is processed and then sent back. That copy is what "upload" means. This tool does not do it: your file is read and processed by the browser you are using right now, stays on this device the whole time, and is discarded when you close the tab. Turn off your Wi-Fi after the page loads and it still works, which is the quickest way to confirm it.

Can I use this on confidential or personal documents?

Yes — that is the case it was built for. Because the file never leaves your device, a confidential document is no more exposed than it is sitting in your own folder: there is no transfer, no copy on anybody else's hardware, no retention period and no staff with access. Nothing about the file is logged either — not its name, not its size, not its contents.