EXIF Viewer & Stripper

Photos carry GPS coordinates, device model and capture time by default. This tool shows you every EXIF tag stored in a JPG, PNG, WebP or TIFF image, flags location data, and saves a clean copy with no metadata. As our guide to removing EXIF without uploading puts it, metadata hygiene should come from the workflow, not from a server's promise to delete your file later. That is why the reading and the stripping both run in your browser, a point that matters most for journalists handling photos from sources.

What EXIF data reveals

EXIF is a block of tags written by the camera or phone into the image file. Depending on the device and its settings, it can include:

• Location: GPSLatitude, GPSLongitude and often GPSAltitude, precise enough to point at a house.
• Time: the original capture date and time, plus GPS date and time stamps.
• Device: manufacturer, model, sometimes lens details and the software or firmware version.
• Shooting settings: exposure time, aperture, ISO, focal length, flash.
• Orientation: how the picture should be rotated for display.

Shared together, a few photos from the same phone can reveal where someone lives, works and travels, and when.

How to view and remove EXIF data

1. Drop a photo on the drop zone or click to select it. The tool reads the metadata immediately and lists each tag with its value in a table.
2. If the image contains GPS fields, a warning appears ("location data found in this image") and those rows are highlighted.
3. Click Strip EXIF Data. The tool writes a new copy of the image without any metadata.
4. Check the original and stripped sizes, then click Download. The file is saved as name-stripped.jpg (same format as the source).
5. To confirm, drop the stripped file back into the tool: it reports that no EXIF metadata was found.

Auditing a whole folder

Select several images at once and a batch summary appears: for each file, whether it was read successfully, how many EXIF tags it contains and whether GPS data is present. You can export this summary as exif-summary.csv or exif-summary.json, which is useful to document what was checked before publishing a set of photos. Clicking Strip EXIF Data then cleans every file and delivers them together in stripped-exif-images.zip.

How stripping works

Rather than editing tags one by one, the tool decodes the image to pixels and encodes it again in the same format, writing no metadata blocks at all. That has a few consequences worth knowing:

• Everything goes: EXIF, but also XMP, IPTC and embedded color profiles are not carried over. There is no option to keep selected tags.
• Orientation is preserved visually: before encoding, the rotation stored in the EXIF orientation tag is applied to the pixels, so the clean photo still displays upright even though the tag is gone.
• JPEG is re-compressed: JPG files are re-encoded at high quality (95). The difference is not visible in normal use, but it is not a bit-for-bit copy of the original image data.
• WebP becomes lossless: WebP files are written as lossless WebP, which can be larger than a lossy original.
• PNG, TIFF and BMP are re-encoded losslessly.

Limits

• The viewer reads EXIF from JPG, PNG, WebP and TIFF. BMP files have no EXIF block.
• Only EXIF tags are listed. XMP or IPTC metadata is not displayed, although stripping removes it.
• AVIF images cannot be stripped yet. Convert them to JPG or PNG with the image converter, which also writes no metadata.
• iPhone HEIC photos are not accepted here. Convert them with HEIC to JPG first.
• Metadata in PDF documents is a different format. Use the PDF metadata editor for those.

Compared with other ways to remove EXIF

ExifTool on the command line (exiftool -all= photo.jpg) removes metadata without touching the compressed image data, which makes it the reference for archives and professional workflows. Windows offers "Remove Properties and Personal Information" in a file's Properties dialog, and the iPhone share sheet has an Options toggle to drop location when sending a photo. This tool sits between them: nothing to install, it works on any operating system, and it shows you exactly what is in the file before you remove it.

Why strip EXIF in your browser

The whole point of removing EXIF is to keep your location and device details private. An online stripper that requires an upload receives the original file, GPS coordinates included, before it removes anything. Here the image is read and rewritten in your tab by Rust compiled to WebAssembly, and no request carries the file to a server. You can verify it in the Network tab of your browser's developer tools, or go offline after the page loads and keep working.

Frequently asked questions

How do I remove the location from a photo?

Drop the photo here, check the highlighted GPS rows, click Strip EXIF Data and download the clean copy. The new file contains no GPS fields and no other EXIF tags.

How can I check that a photo has no EXIF data?

Drop it into the tool. If the file contains no metadata, it shows "No EXIF metadata found in this image." That is also the quickest way to verify a stripped file before sharing it.

Does removing EXIF reduce image quality?

JPG files are re-encoded at quality 95, which is visually indistinguishable in normal use. PNG, TIFF and BMP are re-encoded losslessly. If you need the original compressed data untouched, use a dedicated metadata editor such as ExifTool.

Will my photo turn sideways after stripping?

No. The rotation stored in EXIF is applied to the pixels before the metadata is removed, so the photo keeps its correct orientation everywhere.

Can I keep some tags, like the date, and remove only GPS?

No. The tool removes all metadata in one pass. Selective editing requires a metadata editor.

Can I strip EXIF from many photos at once?

Yes. Select several files, review the batch summary, then click Strip EXIF Data. The cleaned copies download as a single ZIP.

Is my photo uploaded?

No. Reading and stripping happen locally in your browser. The image and its metadata never leave your device.