New exports do not copy common GPS coordinates or camera capture fields.
Privacy cleanup on this device
Metadata CleanerKeep the pixels. Leave the traces behind.
Create clean copies without common GPS coordinates, camera details, capture dates, EXIF, IPTC, or XMP fields. Images never leave your browser.
Images stay in this browser
METADATA REMOVER
Create privacy-clean image copies
EXIFGPSLocal
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Source images
Drop images to clean
JPG, PNG, WebP, SVG, and browser-readable HEIC images
Up to 50 MB each and 20 images at a time02
Clean-copy preview
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Add images to review output formats and privacy-clean copies.
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The tool keeps the original dimensions and creates a freshly encoded image.
Source files and clean copies remain inside your browser.
Remove hidden context before sharing an image outside its original workflow
A photo can carry camera details, capture time, software tags, copyright fields, and sometimes GPS coordinates. Cleaning metadata reduces accidental disclosure, but it does not blur visible information or guarantee anonymity.
Step by step
- Inspect what is present
Review detected EXIF fields and pay special attention to GPS coordinates, device identifiers, timestamps, author names, and editing software.
- Decide what the recipient needs
A public upload rarely needs capture location or device data, while an archive or professional workflow may rely on dates and rights information.
- Create a cleaned copy
Process the image and download a new file rather than overwriting the only original. The original remains useful for records and future editing.
- Verify after download
Reopen or reinspect the exported file and confirm that sensitive fields are gone before sharing it through another platform.
Decision guide
- Public sharing
- Remove GPS, device, author, and workflow details unless there is a clear reason to publish them.
- Private archive
- Keep an untouched original with meaningful dates and rights information in controlled storage.
- JPG inspection
- JPEG commonly carries EXIF and is the format with the broadest metadata support in this browser workflow.
- PNG or WebP
- These formats can contain metadata too, but field support varies across applications and browser encoders.
Important limits
- Metadata removal does not hide faces, addresses, screens, reflections, documents, or landmarks visible in the pixels.
- Social platforms may add their own processing or metadata after upload.
- File names and surrounding messages can still reveal identity, time, project, or location.
- No cleaner can prove that every proprietary application block has been understood by every receiving program.
04 · Common questions
Common questions
Does removing EXIF reduce image quality?
The goal is to rewrite the file without changing visible content, although the selected output format can still affect encoding.
Should I delete the original?
No. Keep it privately when capture dates, location, or rights information may be useful later.
Is metadata sent to OmniKit?
No. Inspection and cleaning happen in browser memory on this device.
Remove EXIF and location metadata from photos
Photos can contain invisible information such as GPS coordinates, camera make and model, lens settings, software names, capture dates, captions, or author fields. OmniKit decodes the visible pixels and exports a new file rather than copying the original metadata blocks.
The output keeps the source dimensions. JPG, PNG, and WebP inputs keep their format when the browser supports that encoder; a browser-readable HEIC or HEIF image is exported as JPG. Re-encoding means the output bytes will differ from the original.
Image metadata questions
Which metadata is removed?
Because the browser exports a new file from decoded pixels, common EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, camera, lens, author, software, and capture-time fields are not copied.
Does removing metadata reduce quality?
PNG is re-encoded losslessly. JPG and WebP use high-quality lossy encoding, so the visible result should remain close but is not byte-for-byte identical.
Does the tool remove private information visible in the image?
No. It removes embedded metadata only. Faces, addresses, documents, license plates, and other visible content remain in the picture.