Removing metadata means deleting the header segments a file carries — EXIF, XMP, and C2PA — without re-encoding a single pixel. The tool on this page does exactly that in your browser, so the file never leaves your device and the picture or text looks identical before and after.
Metadata is data about the file, stored in separate header segments before the content. In an image that is EXIF (camera, lens, GPS, date), XMP (editing and generator fields), and sometimes a C2PA credential. Because it is a discrete block, it can be cut out without touching the picture. Strip image metadata without re-encoding → · Strip a photo's metadata before sharing →
Drop a file and the cleaner lists every metadata block, removes them on your device, and shows what it kept so the picture displays exactly as before.
Nothing cleaned yet
Paste text on the left and press Clean the file. What was removed shows up here, along with a count.
For images this panel also lists what was kept — the colour profile, for instance, so cleaning never changes how a picture looks.
| Block | Removed? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| EXIF (camera, GPS, date) | Yes | Identifies the device and place |
| XMP (editor, generator) | Yes | Reveals software and sometimes the prompt |
| C2PA credential | Yes | Signed provenance, removable by design |
| Colour profile / orientation | Kept | Dropping it changes how the picture shows |
That split is the whole point: take out the identifying data, leave the display blocks alone. What each EXIF method leaves behind →
Metadata is data about the file stored in header segments, separate from the content itself. In a photo it is EXIF (camera, lens, GPS, date), XMP (editing and generator fields), and sometimes a C2PA provenance credential. In a document it is author, software, and revision history. None of it is the picture or the text — it rides alongside.
No. Metadata sits before the compressed image data, so deleting it never touches a pixel. The picture bytes hash identically before and after removal. What reduces quality is re-encoding the image, which a segment-level tool deliberately avoids — that is the difference between removing metadata and re-saving the file.
Yes. EXIF can carry GPS coordinates from the camera or phone that took the photo. That is one of the main reasons people strip metadata before sharing: a perfectly ordinary picture can leak exactly where it was made. Removing the GPS field closes that leak without altering the image.
Not reliably. An AI detector reads the statistical pattern of how the image was generated, which lives in the pixels, not in the metadata. Stripping the C2PA credential removes the signed provenance tag, but a detector working on the image itself is unaffected. Metadata removal is about privacy, not about hiding machine generation.
Safe in the privacy sense: this tool runs entirely in your browser, so the file is never uploaded to a server. Safe in the data sense: a careful tool reports what it keeps as well as what it removes, because dropping the wrong block (a colour profile or orientation tag) can change how the picture displays. Ours lists both.
It keeps the blocks that affect how the file displays: the JPEG SOI/EOI markers, the colour profile, and the orientation tag, among others. It removes EXIF, XMP, and C2PA. The point is to take out the identifying and provenance data while leaving the picture byte-for-byte intact.