Every photo and video carries information you cannot see by looking at it: when it was taken, what device took it, camera settings, editing history, and very often the exact place it was taken.
That information travels with the file. Send someone a holiday photo and you may be sending them the coordinates of where you were standing. Post a picture taken at home and you may be posting your address.
This tool removes it.
Using it
- Open the tool and drag your files in, or click to choose them.
- It processes them and tells you how much was removed.
- Download the clean copies.
You can do several files at once.
What you have already cleaned
The tool keeps a History of files it has processed, and shows a running total of how much hidden data it has stripped across all of them.
Anything you no longer want in that list can be archived, which moves it to an Archived view rather than deleting it. Archived items can be restored back to History at any time — archiving is tidying, not disposal.
What is removed
The hidden data attached to the file — location, timestamps, device and camera details, and similar embedded records.
The picture itself is unchanged. This is not a quality setting and nothing is re-encoded to look worse. You get the same image with the invisible attachments taken off.
When to use it
- Before publishing anything you photographed yourself, especially at home
- Before sending files to someone you do not know — a client, a marketplace, a forum
- Before posting a file elsewhere on a site you have not checked the behaviour of
Some sites strip this automatically when you upload. Many do not, and the ones that do not rarely say so. Checking each time is more effort than simply stripping it yourself.
When you do not need to
- Things generated here. They were never near a camera and carry no location.
- Files you are keeping to yourself. The information is only a problem when the file leaves.
- When you want the information kept. Photographers often rely on camera settings being embedded; stripping them loses that permanently on that copy.
Work on a copy
Removal is not reversible. Once it is gone from a file, it is gone.
If the original information matters to you, keep the untouched original and strip a copy for sharing. The tool gives you a new clean file rather than altering what you put in, but the file you then keep and use is the clean one — so hold on to the original if you want it.
What it does not do
- It does not remove visible things. A street sign, a house number or a reflection in a window are part of the picture. Use the eraser for those — see editing and upscaling.
- It does not affect files already published anywhere. Cleaning a local copy does nothing about a copy someone else already has.
- It does not make a file anonymous in every sense. It removes what is attached to the file, not what can be worked out from what the picture shows.
Cost
Free. It costs no credits — nothing is being generated.