Codegrain

Remove image metadata & EXIF online — free, no upload

Remove EXIF, GPS location, XMP and IPTC metadata from JPG, PNG and WebP photos — free, in your browser. No upload, no quality loss; your image never leaves your device.

Drop an image to remove its metadata

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What gets removed — and where it happens

  • EXIF: camera model, lens, date & time, exposure settings
  • GPS location — the coordinates of where the photo was taken
  • XMP, IPTC and Photoshop editing history
  • Embedded text comments and other hidden tags

All of this happens in your browser by rewriting the file's bytes. Your photo is never uploaded — unlike most EXIF removers, which send your file to their servers.

Your image pixels are left untouched, so there is no quality loss.

Colour-management data (ICC profile, gamma) is kept so the image still looks correct — that's about rendering, not privacy.

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Is my photo uploaded to a server?

No. The metadata is removed entirely in your browser by editing the file's bytes directly. Your image never leaves your device — unlike most EXIF removers, which upload your file to their servers.

Does removing metadata reduce image quality?

No. We don't re-compress or re-encode the picture. We surgically cut out only the metadata segments (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, comments) and keep the original image data byte-for-byte, so the pixels are identical to the original.

What exactly gets removed?

For most photos this is EXIF data — camera model, date and time, exposure settings, and often your GPS location — plus XMP, IPTC and embedded text comments. We keep colour-management data (ICC profile, gamma, colour space) so the image still looks correct; that's about rendering, not privacy.

Which formats are supported?

JPG, PNG and WebP. HEIC, TIFF, AVIF and GIF aren't supported yet — rather than hand back a file we didn't actually clean, we tell you the format isn't supported.

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