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GPS Coordinates
Every photo from your phone records your exact location. Posting on social media reveals where you live, work, or vacation. We remove every GPS tag.
Your photos contain GPS coordinates. Your PDFs reveal your name. Your Word docs leak your company. Strip it all in one click — without uploading anywhere.
Photos, PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Multiple files at once.
The hidden data your files reveal — and what we strip out.
Every photo from your phone records your exact location. Posting on social media reveals where you live, work, or vacation. We remove every GPS tag.
Photos reveal camera make, model, lens, and serial number. Useful for journalists protecting sources or anyone who values anonymity.
EXIF date taken can reveal patterns about your schedule. PDFs show creation and modification times that can be sensitive.
PDFs and Word docs embed your username, real name, and even your company. Critical to clean before sharing externally.
Files reveal which software created them — Photoshop version, Word version, OS. Useful info for attackers.
The only privacy-safe metadata tool. We never see your files. Everything happens in your browser using JavaScript.
Three steps. Zero uploads. Total privacy.
Drag and drop or pick files. Process as many as you want.
See exactly what hidden data each file contains. Decide what to clean.
Click clean. Download stripped files. Originals stay untouched on your device.
Anyone who shares files online — and especially these people.
Protect sources by stripping GPS, camera serials, and author names from photos and documents before publishing.
Don't reveal your home address through GPS data when listing items on Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, eBay.
Documents shared with clients should not leak your company info, internal authors, or revision history.
Instagram and Twitter strip EXIF — but only sometimes. Forums, marketplaces, and DMs usually don't. Be safe.
Yes, 100% free. No account, no limits, no watermarks. Works completely offline once the page loads. Process unlimited files of any size, as many times as you want.
Because it defeats the entire purpose. If you're trying to protect your privacy by removing metadata, the last thing you want is to upload your sensitive files to a stranger's server. Server-based tools see every file you process, often log them, and may retain copies. Our tool runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript — your files never leave your device, never get logged, never touch any server.
Photos: EXIF (GPS coordinates, camera make and model, lens, dates, software, owner name), IPTC (captions, keywords, copyright, byline), XMP (Photoshop edits, ratings, color labels). PDFs: title, author, subject, keywords, creator app, producer software, creation date, modification date, custom XMP properties, embedded scripts. Office docs: author, last modified by, company, manager, total editing time, revision history, comments, hidden text, tracked changes.
Drag your photos into the dropzone above. The tool automatically detects and displays GPS coordinates (highlighted in red) if they exist. Click "Clean All & Download" — your photos download with GPS completely removed, no quality loss. Works for iPhone JPG, Android JPG, DSLR photos, and edited Photoshop exports.
Drop your PDF in. You'll instantly see the current author, creator, producer, and date fields. Click clean — the PDF downloads with all author/creator fields cleared and dates reset. Works for PDFs from Word, Acrobat, Chrome, Safari, or any other source. The visible content of the PDF is unchanged.
No. We strip metadata at the file structure level — for JPG we remove the APP1/APP13 segments, for PNG we remove tEXt/iTXt/eXIf chunks, for WebP we remove EXIF/XMP/ICCP chunks. The actual image pixel data is never re-encoded. Your photos keep 100% of their original quality and file size shrinks slightly from the removed metadata.
Images: JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP. Documents: PDF. Office files: DOCX (Word), XLSX (Excel), PPTX (PowerPoint). HEIC photos from iPhones can be cleaned after converting to JPG using our image converter tool.
Yes. Drop dozens or hundreds of files at once — they're all parsed and cleaned together. Multiple files automatically download as one ZIP archive. Perfect for cleaning an entire photo shoot, a folder of documents, or a marketplace listing batch.
Instagram and Facebook strip most EXIF including GPS when you upload directly through their apps. However, other platforms (Twitter, Reddit, Discord, marketplaces, forums, email attachments, Slack, WhatsApp) often keep metadata intact. If you want a guarantee, clean before sending.
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is camera-generated technical data — GPS, exposure, ISO, lens, dates. IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) is editorial metadata added by humans — captions, keywords, copyright, photographer name. XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) is Adobe's modern XML-based format used by Photoshop and Lightroom for edits, ratings, and color labels. Our tool removes all three from images.
Yes, removing metadata from your own files is completely legal. You own your photos and documents. Note: some specialized contexts (legal evidence, journalism source authentication, scientific data) may require preserving metadata for chain-of-custody — but for personal sharing, cleaning before posting is best practice.
No. Once metadata is stripped from a file, it's permanently gone. There is no way to recover it from the cleaned file. Always keep an original backup if you might need the metadata later (for example, GPS coordinates for trip memories or camera settings for photo learning).
Yes. After the page loads once, the cleaner runs entirely offline. You can disconnect from the internet and continue processing files. We never make any network requests with your file data — verify it yourself in the browser DevTools Network tab.
ExifTool is the gold standard but requires command-line usage and installation. Our tool covers the most common metadata removal needs (EXIF, GPS, PDF, Office) with zero install and a friendly interface. For advanced use cases (batch scripting, custom tag editing, raw camera files), ExifTool is more powerful. For 99% of privacy use cases, our browser tool is faster and more accessible.
Yes. After dropping a photo, click "View metadata" on the file card. GPS coordinates appear in red under the "Location Data" section as decimal latitude/longitude. You can copy them into Google Maps to verify before cleaning.
Every photo you take with a smartphone is tagged with hidden metadata: GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken, the exact camera model and lens, date and time, and even the software used to edit it. Every PDF you create includes your name, your software version, and timestamps. Every Word document carries your username, your company, and revision history. This invisible information is called metadata — and most people have no idea it's there until it's too late.
Our free EXIF remover and metadata cleaner strips all this hidden data from your files in seconds. Drop a photo, see the GPS coordinates, click clean — done. No upload, no signup, no waiting. Process JPG, PNG, WebP photos, PDF documents, and Microsoft Office files (Word DOCX, Excel XLSX, PowerPoint PPTX). Everything runs locally in your browser, so your sensitive files never leave your device.
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a metadata standard automatically embedded in every JPG photo by your camera or smartphone. It includes GPS coordinates showing exactly where the photo was taken — accurate to a few meters. It also stores the camera make, camera model, lens, ISO setting, aperture, shutter speed, date, time, and the software used to edit the image. iPhone and Android phones add EXIF GPS data by default unless you've explicitly disabled it in privacy settings.
This becomes a serious problem when you share photos online. Posting a photo of a sale item on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace can reveal your home address through embedded GPS. Sharing a vacation photo on a forum can show stalkers exactly where you are right now. A whistleblower photo can be traced to a specific journalist's camera through serial numbers in EXIF. Hunting and fishing photos shared online have led to poaching and illegal harvesting at the exact GPS-tagged locations.
The cleaning process is lossless — your photos retain 100% of their original visual quality. Only the hidden metadata blocks are removed. The JPG file itself is byte-identical in the image regions; just the metadata regions are stripped out.
GPS removal works the same way as full EXIF removal — just drop the photo in. The tool specifically highlights GPS coordinates in red and adds a warning banner above the file list when location data is detected. After cleaning, your photo has zero traces of where it was taken. This works for:
PDF files store metadata in a Document Information Dictionary and an XMP packet. The standard fields are: Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator (the application that created the source), Producer (the software that converted to PDF), Creation Date, and Modification Date. Office PDFs also embed your Office username and company. Browser-printed PDFs include your browser version. Many professional PDFs leak the editor's name and email through XMP custom properties.
Our PDF metadata remover uses pdf-lib running in your browser to clear all standard PDF metadata fields. The visible content of the PDF — pages, text, images, links, signatures — is preserved exactly. Only the hidden Info Dictionary entries and XMP packet entries are reset. To clean a PDF: drop it in, see the metadata, click clean. The downloaded PDF has author/creator/producer/dates all empty.
Modern Office documents (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) are actually ZIP archives containing XML files. Two of those XML files — docProps/core.xml and docProps/app.xml — contain all the metadata. Our cleaner replaces these with empty versions while preserving the document content (text, formulas, images, charts, formatting).
Cleaned fields include: Author, Last Modified By, Manager, Company, Application name, Application version, Total Editing Time, Revision count, Template used, custom properties, and creation/modification dates. The document content is byte-identical to the original — only the docProps metadata files are replaced. Track changes and comments are NOT removed (use Word's "Inspect Document" for those).
Most "free EXIF remover" websites require you to upload your photos to their servers. This is a privacy paradox: you're trying to protect your privacy by removing GPS coordinates and personal data, but you're handing the original file (with all that data intact) to an unknown third party. The remote server sees your full unaltered file. They can log it, store it, analyze it, sell access to it, get hacked, or comply with legal data requests.
Even worse, some "free" services bundle adware, phish for emails, watermark your photos, limit file size, or simply log everything for "service quality" purposes. The only safe metadata removal is one that runs entirely in your browser. You can verify our tool never uploads anything by opening browser DevTools → Network tab — you'll see zero outbound requests with your file data.
Many metadata removers re-encode your image, which means decoding the JPG, then re-encoding it. Even at "100% quality," this introduces generation loss because JPG compression is not bit-exact. Our tool uses a different approach: we parse the JPEG file structure, identify the metadata segments (APP1 for EXIF/XMP, APP13 for IPTC, COM for comments), and skip them when writing the output. The actual image data segments (DQT, SOF, DHT, SOS) are copied byte-for-byte. Result: zero quality loss, slightly smaller file size from the removed metadata.
For PNG, we parse chunk-based file structure and skip tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, eXIf, tIME, and iCCP chunks while preserving IHDR, IDAT, IEND, and other essential chunks. For WebP, we parse the RIFF container and skip EXIF, XMP, and ICCP chunks while preserving VP8/VP8L bitstream chunks. All three formats produce visually and pixel-perfect output.
JPG/JPEG: Removes EXIF (camera, GPS, settings), IPTC (caption, keywords, copyright), XMP (Photoshop edits, ratings), Photoshop resources, and JPEG comments. Preserves JFIF basic format info, color profile (unless ICCP is selected), and image data.
PNG: Removes tEXt, iTXt, zTXt (text comments), eXIf (embedded EXIF), tIME (timestamp), and iCCP (color profile). Preserves all image and palette chunks.
WebP: Removes EXIF, XMP, and ICCP chunks. Preserves VP8/VP8L bitstream and animation chunks. Properly recalculates RIFF container size.
PDF: Clears Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, CreationDate, ModDate, and any custom Info Dictionary entries. Resets dates to epoch.
DOCX/XLSX/PPTX: Replaces docProps/core.xml and docProps/app.xml with minimal empty versions. Removes docProps/custom.xml if present.
Photographers sharing portfolios online often want to remove camera serial numbers (used by some agencies to track unauthorized use), client information from IPTC, and GPS coordinates of private shoots. Real estate agents sometimes accidentally reveal seller info or photographer details in property listings. Marketplace sellers on Craigslist, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, and Vinted should always strip GPS to avoid revealing home addresses to strangers.
Journalists protect sources by removing camera serial numbers (which can be traced through camera registration databases) and GPS data from photos used in investigations. Activists protect protest participants by stripping GPS, dates, and times before publishing photos. Whistleblowers use metadata cleaners to remove identifying information before leaking documents — the Reality Winner case famously involved printer dot codes, but Word document metadata also routinely deanonymizes leakers.
Lawyers and consultants clean documents before sharing with opposing counsel or external parties to avoid leaking firm names, internal authors, edit history, or hidden tracked changes. Job applicants sometimes clean resume PDFs to remove the names of recruiters who created the formatted version. Anyone sharing a screenshot on social media should be aware that screen captures often contain device fingerprints in EXIF.
BrowserCrunch is a collection of privacy-first file tools. Every tool — metadata cleaner, photo editor, PDF editor, image compressor, video compressor — runs 100% in your browser. We have no backend that processes your files. We don't use cloud functions, edge workers, or any server-side processing. Our analytics (Google Analytics) only see page visits, not file content. We never upload, store, log, or analyze your files. This is the only sustainable model for a true privacy tool.
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