The one tool where local processing is the entire product
Think about what an upload-based EXIF remover asks of you: to protect the GPS coordinates of your home, you first transmit them, attached to your photo, to a stranger's server, and trust that their deletion actually happens. The architecture contradicts the purpose. Here the photo and its metadata stay in your browser's memory; the FBI's warning about malicious converter sites is one more reason that difference matters. Load the page, go offline, and it still works.
How rebuilding beats deleting
EXIF strippers that edit the file in place must know every metadata container: EXIF blocks, XMP packets, IPTC records, vendor maker notes, embedded thumbnails that keep their own copy of the GPS data. Miss one and it leaks. This tool takes the opposite approach: it decodes the pixels and writes a brand-new file that never contained anything else, the same way our converters work. There is nothing to miss, and the embedded preview thumbnail, a classic leak in edit-in-place tools, is gone by construction.
Common questions
What exactly is in my photo's EXIF data?+−
Typically: GPS coordinates of where it was taken, the exact timestamp, your phone or camera model, serial numbers on some cameras, editing software used, and dozens of technical fields. On a photo of a for-sale item or a child, the GPS field alone can reveal your home address.
Is everything removed, including GPS?+−
Yes, structurally. This tool does not selectively delete fields; it rebuilds the image from raw pixels, so GPS, timestamps, device identifiers and vendor-specific maker notes are all absent from the output because they were never copied. You can verify with any EXIF viewer.
Does removing EXIF change the image quality?+−
Minimally. JPGs are re-encoded at 95% quality via MozJPEG, which is visually transparent; PNGs are rebuilt losslessly. The orientation flag is baked into the pixels first, so a photo that relied on the rotation field still displays upright everywhere.
Don't social networks strip EXIF anyway?+−
Major platforms remove it from what other users see, but they read it first and you are trusting each site's pipeline. Marketplaces, forums, email and cloud links often preserve metadata intact. Stripping before the file leaves your device, which is literally what happens here, removes the trust question entirely.