Remove EXIF Data Online — Free Photo Metadata Viewer & Stripper

Most folks only discover EXIF the hard way. You send a “clean” listing photo to a client, or post a weekend hike, and somehow the file still knows your street name. Phones are generous with that stuff: GPS, camera model, lens, even which editing app touched the file last.

Instagram and a few other apps strip a lot of it on upload. Email attachments, Slack downloads, client portals, and “share original” flows often do not. If you care about the copy that leaves your machine, strip it yourself before it travels.

What this page actually does

Drop a JPG, PNG, WebP, or (when the browser can decode it) HEIC. We read the fields with a client-side EXIF parser, show them in a boring but readable table, then re-encode the pixels through the canvas so the download no longer carries that baggage. Your original on disk stays put. We never see the bytes — there is no upload step to “accidentally” keep.

Honest caveat: re-encoding a JPEG is not bit-identical. For social posts and client proofs that is almost never a problem. For archival masters, keep the raw/original elsewhere and treat the stripped file as the share copy.

Situations where stripping is worth the thirty seconds

• Real-estate or home-office shots that still have GPS from the phone camera
• Creator portfolios going to strangers on Discord or freelance platforms
• Screenshots that somehow inherited metadata from an export pipeline
• Travel photos you are fine sharing visually but not as a map pin

When you should reach for something else

If you need surgical edits — keep the lens info, drop only GPS — a desktop tool like ExifTool is still king. Same if you are wiping thousands of files on a schedule. This page is for the common case: look at what is inside, nuke it, download, move on.

A habit that saves headaches

Turn location tagging off in the camera app if you do not need it. Strip before you upload, not after you wonder why a map showed up. And if you keep Pro unlocked here, the batch run and the quick risk score are mostly for people who do this every week, not once a year.

Still stuck? Mail support@toolkite.net with the format and what you expected to disappear. We cannot open your photo (by design), but we can tell you whether the browser path supports that container.