AVIF Cove

exif · gps · xmp · iptc

EXIF remover

Photos often carry the exact place they were taken, the camera’s serial number and the time to the second. See what yours reveal, then strip it without touching a single pixel.

Runs in this tab. Nothing is uploaded.

Drop photos to inspect and clean

JPEG, PNG or WebP · as many as you like

How the EXIF remover works

Drop photos and each one gets a card listing what it reveals: location (GPS coordinates, altitude, city names), camera (make, model, lens, serial numbers), dates, author details, editing software and any hidden preview image. A cleaned copy is ready to download straight away.

Lossless: the picture is never re-encoded

Image files keep metadata in separate blocks next to the compressed picture. The remover deletes those blocks and copies everything else byte for byte, so the picture is exactly the same as before, with no quality loss.

  • JPEG: removes EXIF and XMP (APP1), IPTC/Photoshop data (APP13), comments, Content Credentials, maker data and extra images stored after the end of the picture. Quantisation tables, Huffman tables and the compressed scans are untouched.
  • PNG: removes tEXt, zTXt and iTXt text (including XMP), eXIf, tIME and other non-image chunks. IDAT image data, palette and transparency chunks stay.
  • WebP: removes the EXIF and XMP chunks and updates the file header to match.

The colour profile and orientation tag are kept by default because they change how the photo looks, not who took it. The orientation is rewritten as a tiny block that holds nothing else.

Questions

Does removing EXIF data reduce image quality?

No. The compressed image data is copied unchanged and only metadata blocks are dropped, so the pixels are identical to the original. The file just gets a little smaller.

What is the embedded preview image?

Many cameras and editors store a small JPEG thumbnail inside the EXIF block. Some editors don’t update it, so it can show the picture before it was cropped or retouched. It is removed together with the rest of the EXIF data.

Why keep the colour profile and orientation?

The ICC colour profile tells viewers how to show the colours; without it, wide-gamut photos from recent phones can look dull. The orientation tag keeps portrait photos upright. Neither identifies you, but you can untick both to remove them as well.

Can I clean many photos at once?

Yes. Drop a whole batch, review the cards and download every cleaned file in one ZIP. Cleaned files keep their original names.

Are my photos uploaded?

No. The files are read and rewritten by JavaScript in this browser tab. Nothing is sent to a server, which matters for exactly the kind of photo you want to clean.

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