Open a photo to read its hidden metadata: camera or phone model, lens, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, date taken, editing software, and the GPS location it was taken at, with a map link. Then strip it all in one click, losslessly. Nothing is uploaded.
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EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a small TIFF structure that cameras put at the start of a JPG. It has three main parts: the main block (make, model, software, orientation), the Exif block (exposure, lens, date taken, serial numbers) and the GPS block (latitude, longitude, altitude). Editors such as Lightroom and Photoshop also add XMP, an XML packet with edit history and ratings, and news photos often carry IPTC captions and credits. PNG and WebP files can hold the same EXIF and XMP blocks in their own chunks.
The file is read as bytes in your browser. For JPG, every metadata segment is dropped (EXIF, XMP, IPTC/Photoshop, comments, maker and multi-picture data) while the color profile and the compressed image data are copied unchanged; anything stored after the end of the image, such as the video part of a motion photo or a depth map, is removed too. For PNG, the eXIf, tEXt, zTXt, iTXt and tIME chunks are dropped. For WebP, the EXIF and XMP chunks are dropped and the header is fixed up. Nothing is decoded or re-compressed, so the cleaned file looks identical and is usually a bit smaller.
If a phone photo was stored sideways with an orientation tag, removing the tag would make it display sideways. With "Keep the orientation tag" on, the cleaned file gets a new 1-entry EXIF block with only that tag, which says nothing about you. Each cleaned file is read back and checked before you can download it.
Also useful: remove EXIF data, rotate image (bakes the rotation into the pixels), redact PDF, blur image.
Website screenshots from the Shotmint API come straight from Chromium with no EXIF, GPS or device data, at the viewport and format you ask for:
curl "https://shotmint.creasework.com/v1/screenshot?url=https://example.com&format=webp" -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" -o shot.webpEach screenshot is 1 credit. €5 buys 2,000 with no subscription, and credits never expire.
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Are my photos uploaded? No. The page reads and rewrites the bytes in JavaScript; you can even go offline after it loads.
Does removing EXIF reduce quality? No. The compressed image data is copied byte for byte. Only the metadata around it changes.
Is the color profile kept? Yes. ICC profiles (Display P3 on iPhones, Adobe RGB on cameras) are not personal data and are needed for correct colors, so they stay. sRGB, gamma and DPI chunks in PNGs stay too.
What about HEIC photos from an iPhone? Convert them with HEIC to JPG first (that conversion drops the metadata), or check the result here. iPhones send JPG when you share to most apps, often with the location still inside.
Do Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook remove EXIF? Most social networks strip it from the public copy, but they may read and keep it on upload, and sending a photo "as a file" or "as a document" usually keeps the original. Stripping it yourself is the only way to be sure.
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