Remove metadata
Delete the hidden information in a file before you share it — a photo, a video, a recording or a PDF. What you can see, hear or read stays exactly as it was; only the descriptive data is removed, and the result is checked afterwards so you can see the proof.
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Reads metadata in: JPEG · PNG · WebP · HEIC/HEIF · AVIF · MP4 · QuickTime MOV · WebM · PDF · MP3 · WAV · M4A
Your file never leaves your device. Processing happens entirely in your browser.
Quick clean vs full clean
A quick clean removes everything that identifies you — EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, comments, embedded thumbnails and vendor blocks — while keeping the two things that affect how the file is displayed: its orientation flag and its ICC colour profile. The picture looks identical to the original.
A full clean also removes those, producing the barest valid file the format allows. Use it when you want nothing left at all and can accept that a rotated photo may need turning, or that colours may render slightly differently in some viewers.
Nothing is re-encoded
Metadata sits in separate sections from the encoded payload — the compressed picture, the audio samples, the page content. Cleaning rewrites only those sections and copies the payload across byte for byte, so there is no generational quality loss — you can clean the same file repeatedly and it stays identical.
For video and audio this also means speed: cleaning a multi-gigabyte recording is a container rewrite that finishes in seconds, not a transcode. The chunk offset tables are rewritten to match, so the cleaned file still plays and seeks correctly.
Verification, not assurance
Plenty of tools tell you a file was cleaned. This one re-reads the finished bytes from scratch, runs the same analysis it ran on the original, and shows the two side by side.
If something survived — because a format does not allow removing it, or because you chose to keep it — that field is listed by name. The success message only appears when the re-analysis actually confirms it.
What cleaning cannot do
Removing metadata does not make a file anonymous. The image content itself may identify a place or person, and uploading anything reveals your IP address and account to the receiving platform.
Some cameras also encode sensor-level characteristics into the picture data. Metadata removal addresses the descriptive fields, which is the part that carries your GPS position, device identity and timestamps.
Frequently asked questions
Will removing metadata change how my photo looks?
With a quick clean, no — orientation and the colour profile are preserved and the compressed pixels are untouched. With a full clean the pixels are still untouched, but because the orientation flag is removed a photo taken sideways may appear rotated, and without an ICC profile colours can shift slightly in colour-managed applications.
Does this reduce the file size?
Usually a little, since the metadata bytes are gone. WebM is the exception: its metadata is overwritten with padding rather than deleted, because removing the bytes would break the seek index. The data is genuinely gone, but the file size stays the same.
Can I remove metadata from a HEIC photo from my iPhone?
Yes. HEIC keeps its metadata as items in a table of byte offsets, and cleaning one means rebuilding that table — which this build now does, from where the bytes actually land rather than by patching numbers afterwards. The photograph stays a HEIC: every part of it, including the thumbnail and the HDR gain map an iPhone adds, is copied across byte for byte, and nothing is re-encoded.
Is the copyright field removed too?
By default yes, since it names a person. There is a checkbox to keep copyright and credit fields if you are publishing work you want attributed.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Everything runs in your browser using WebAssembly and modern JavaScript. Your file never leaves your machine, and you do not need to download or install any software.