See what your photos reveal
Every photo from a phone or camera can carry hidden data — including the exact GPS coordinates of where it was taken. Check what's in yours, then download a copy with it removed.
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Drop your photos here
or click to choose files — JPG or WebP, up to 30 MB each
No account, no watermark, no limit. Your photos are read and cleaned on this device and never uploaded.
Read from your device. Nothing was uploaded, and nothing will be — the work happens on your own processor.
Nothing queued yet. Add a photo to see what it reveals — camera, date, and GPS location if it carries one.
How it works
- Step 1
Add a photo
Drop in a JPG or WebP straight from your phone or camera, up to 30 MB. It is read on your device — nothing is uploaded to see what it contains.
- Step 2
See what it reveals
Camera model, the date and time it was taken, and — if location was on — the exact GPS coordinates, shown on a map.
- Step 3
Download a clean copy
The same photo, re-encoded with every one of those details stripped out. Nothing about how it looks changes.
A tool like this only makes sense running locally
Think about what a server-based version of this tool would actually be: a site that asks you to upload a photo, so it can tell you — and, in the worst case, quietly keep — the exact location it was taken. That is not a hypothetical risk to weigh, it is the literal shape of the thing.
This tool reads the file inside your browser tab and never sends it anywhere. The metadata it shows you was never visible to anyone but you, including us. When you download the cleaned copy, that file was built on your device too, from pixels decoded on your device — there is no version of this that ever left it.
It is also, honestly, the fastest way to understand why the rest of this site works the way it does. Check one photo from your own phone and you will very likely see more than you expected.
Why this matters
Selling something online
A marketplace photo taken at home hands a stranger your exact address unless the metadata is removed first.
Posting photos of your kids
A photo of your children uploaded to a forum, a group chat backup or a site that does not strip metadata can carry the coordinates of home, in the file itself.
Sending sensitive photos anywhere metadata survives
Email attachments, some messaging apps and most cloud drives keep EXIF intact. The big social networks strip it — the places in between often do not.
Just wanting to know
Most people have never seen what a photo from their own phone actually carries. Checking one is usually the most convincing five seconds of the whole argument for this site.
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Frequently asked questions
- Why not use one of the online EXIF removers?
- Because a site that asks you to upload a photo so it can strip the location data has to be trusted with the location data first. Here the file is opened on your device, you are shown the GPS coordinates it carries, and then they are removed — without anything being handed over. Compared to the online EXIF strippers
- Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
- No. The file is read and re-encoded entirely on your device — nothing is sent anywhere to check what it contains or to remove it. You can disconnect from the internet and the tool still works, which is also the only way a tool like this can be trusted: a site that asks you to upload a photo just to find its location is exactly the kind of thing worth being suspicious of.
- What is EXIF data, exactly?
- A block of information most cameras and phones embed inside the photo file itself — the make and model of the device, the exact date and time, camera settings, and, if location services were on, the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. It is invisible when you just look at the picture.
- Does every photo have this?
- Most JPEGs straight off a phone or camera do. Screenshots often carry some of it too — usually the date and the OS version, though never a location. Photos that have already passed through some social networks or messaging apps often have it stripped already, since many of them remove it automatically on upload — which is also why this looks unnecessary until you check a photo that has not been through one of those yet.
- Why does removing it not change the image?
- EXIF metadata sits in the file container, not in the pixels. Re-encoding the image writes a new file from the decoded pixels alone, so the picture looks identical while the block of text describing the camera, date and location does not exist in the new file at all.
- Which formats does this work on?
- JPG and WebP, which are the formats that carry this kind of metadata. PNG has no equivalent, and browsers cannot re-encode AVIF, so those are not offered here — if you need to check a PNG or AVIF, the file most likely never had EXIF to begin with.
- Is there a maximum file size?
- 30 MB per photo. Everything happens in your browser tab, which has far less memory available to it than your computer as a whole.
- Can I check several photos at once?
- Yes. Add as many as you like, check them together, and download the cleaned copies individually or all at once as a ZIP.