Image Metadata Viewer and Remover
See every metadata field in a JPEG, PNG or WebP, including GPS, camera serial numbers and generator prompts, and strip it without re-encoding the image.
Drop images here, or click to choose
JPEG, PNG and WebP. Files are read by your browser and never uploaded.
What this tool is for
Images carry more than pixels. A photo from a phone holds the location it was taken, the camera serial number and the time. A picture from an image generator often holds the full prompt, the model name and sometimes a signed provenance record. This reads all of it, marks which fields are personal and which name a generator, and writes a clean copy with those blocks cut out. The cut is done at the byte level, so pixel data is identical to the original: unlike tools that redraw the image, nothing is re-compressed.
How to use it
- Drop in one or more JPEG, PNG or WebP files.
- Read the report: every field, with personal data and generator traces marked.
- Download the clean copy. The image itself is untouched, only the metadata blocks are gone.
Frequently asked questions
Does removing metadata make an AI image undetectable?
No. Metadata is not how AI images are identified. Detectors look at the pixels, and systems like SynthID embed a watermark into the image content itself, which survives metadata removal, resizing and screenshots. Treat this tool as what it is: a way to see and remove the data attached to a file.
What is actually worth removing?
GPS coordinates first: a holiday photo can carry your home address. Then camera and lens serial numbers, which link separate photos to one device, the author and copyright fields, and prompts, which often contain more than you meant to publish.
What are Content Credentials, and should I strip them?
C2PA Content Credentials are a signed record of where a file came from, and they exist so that people can check provenance. Removing that record does not turn a generated image into a photograph, it just leaves the file with no history, which platforms that read these manifests can also see. If you are publishing something as a real photograph, removing its provenance record is deception, and that is worth naming plainly.
Is the image quality affected?
Not at all. The pixel data is copied byte for byte and only the metadata blocks are dropped, so the result is identical to the original image. Most online metadata removers re-encode the picture and quietly lose quality.
Are my files uploaded?
No. Reading and rewriting happen in your browser. Nothing is transmitted, which matters here more than usual, since the whole point is that these files contain private data.