🧹 Image Metadata Stripper

Photos from phones and cameras often embed EXIF data — including GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. This tool redraws your image onto a blank canvas and re-exports it, which removes that hidden metadata. Everything happens in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Choose an image

How the metadata is removed

There is no clever editing of the file's headers. The photo is decoded on your device, painted onto a blank canvas and exported again from the pixels alone - so everything that was not pixel data is simply absent from the new file. Nothing is uploaded, and the page works with the network off.

PNG in   -> PNG out,  lossless
anything else -> JPEG out, quality 0.95

That takes out GPS coordinates, the camera and lens, serial numbers, capture date, IPTC and XMP fields, the embedded preview thumbnail and the colour profile. Width and height are unchanged, and the download is named stripped-yourfile.jpg.

What it costs you

A JPEG is re-compressed, not repacked. Quality 0.95 is high, but it is still a second generation of lossy encoding on top of the camera's.
Transparency is lost on anything but PNG. A clear background in a WebP or GIF flattens to black, since no backing colour is painted first.
The reported output size is an estimate, worked out from the length of the base64 preview rather than a real file measurement.

The EXIF orientation flag goes too. Browsers rotate a photo as they decode it, so the upright version is what gets redrawn - but a very old browser that ignores the flag will bake in a sideways image. Check the preview before you download.

Frequently asked questions

How do I remove GPS location from a photo?

Choose the picture and download the stripped copy. The coordinates live in the EXIF block, which is not carried across when the canvas writes a new file, so the download has no location in it at all.

Can anyone still tell where the photo was taken?

Only from what is visible in it. Stripping metadata does not blur street signs, house numbers, reflections or anything else in the frame - crop or paint those out separately.

Will my photo look worse afterwards?

A PNG is untouched pixel for pixel. A JPEG is re-encoded at quality 0.95, which is visually close but not identical; keep your original if the file is ever going to be edited or printed.