EXIF Remover & Photo Metadata Viewer

How it actually works

It inspects and removes the metadata block stored inside JPEG files, entirely in the browser. When you add a photo it is read as a data URL and handed to piexifjs, which parses the APP1 EXIF segment and returns the 0th, Exif, GPS and Interop directories as tag entries, each a type-and-value pair. The tool walks those directories, resolves every numeric tag id to a human name through the library TAGS tables, formats the raw values - ASCII strings, integers, rationals for shutter and exposure, and degree-minute-second rationals converted to decimal coordinates - and prints them as grouped tables.

Removal calls the piexifjs remove function, which deletes the APP1 EXIF marker from the JPEG byte stream and writes the remaining image back out. Because it edits the container rather than re-encoding pixels, the picture data is unchanged and no quality is lost.

A card is built per file showing a live risk summary, a red chip when GPS is present plus detected camera, capture date and owner, and each cleaned file can be downloaded alone, in one bulk pass, or as a single ZIP packed with JSZip.

Nothing is uploaded: parsing and rewriting happen on your device, and the only network use is the one-time CDN load of the piexifjs and JSZip scripts.

Premium features: a custom output filename suffix applied to every cleaned file, batch strip of up to twenty photos in one click, and a one-download ZIP of the whole cleaned set.

What that means for your results

Tag names come from the EXIF standard tables and unrecognised tags are still listed by their numeric id rather than hidden, so the report is honest about what the file contains. GPS coordinates are decoded from their degree-minute-second rationals with the N-S-E-W reference applied, rounded to six decimal places, and a map link lets you confirm the location before you remove it.

Where it falls short - honestly

It handles JPEG only, and PNG, WebP, TIFF and HEIC store metadata differently and are not read or stripped here, so the file input rejects them. Progressive and unusual JPEGs can occasionally fail to parse, in which case the photo is shown as unreadable rather than altered. Removal deletes the EXIF block but a file can still carry other markers such as an ICC colour profile or an XMP packet, which this container-level strip does not target. Because the libraries load from a CDN, the page needs a connection the first time it is opened.

A real end-to-end workflow

Add the JPEGs you are about to publish, open each field list to see exactly what is embedded, note whether a GPS location or your name appears, then strip and download the cleaned copies - individually for one shot or as a ZIP for a whole shoot. After cleaning, resize or shrink the safe copy with Image Resizer or Image Compressor, and for iPhone originals stored as HEIC convert first with HEIC Converter.