Check photo metadata before sharing

Cameras and phones annotate every shot with EXIF fields, and editing apps add XMP and IPTC records on top. None of it is visible in the picture, yet all of it travels inside the file.

• LocationLocation: GPS latitude, longitude, and sometimes altitude—often precise enough to identify a home, an office, or a school.
• DeviceDevice: camera make, model, and lens, plus a body serial number that uniquely ties the photo to your equipment.
• Time and processTime and process: capture time to the second, exposure settings, and the software that edited or exported the file.

The risk is not theoretical. Everyday sharing moves the whole file, and you rarely control what the receiving side keeps.

• ListingsMarketplace and classified listings: selling used gear with photos that carry its serial number and your neighborhood coordinates.
• PlatformsForums, groups, and chats: some platforms strip metadata on upload and some do not—and the ones that do rarely say which fields survive.
• Work filesWork handoffs: an exported screenshot or a phone photo of a whiteboard can reveal device details and exact working hours.

EXIF Metadata Viewer opens a JPEG or PNG in the browser tab and lists exactly what the file says—no upload, no account, no guesswork.

Six whitelist groups show GPS coordinates as plain decimal text with no map request, camera and lens details with the body serial flagged highly sensitive, capture times, exposure settings, and file facts. JPEG files also report XMP, IPTC, comment, and color-profile segments; PNG files list their text and EXIF chunks. WebP and GIF carry no segments the tool can read, and the workspace says so instead of pretending otherwise.

Removal happens in the same tab. The default tier rebuilds the file keeping only what decoding needs, so the pixels stay byte-identical while the metadata is gone.

• Verified removalLossless strip is verified: every cleaned copy is parsed again to prove the fields are empty, with before and after byte sizes shown as measured.
• Disclosed trade-offsOptional tiers are disclosed, not hidden: removing the ICC color profile can shift color on some displays, and baking orientation into pixels re-encodes the image.
• Batch cleaningA whole trip's photos can go in one batch—up to 12 photos and 96 MiB—cleaned one at a time and downloaded as a single zip.

Some sensitive details are in the picture itself: a face in the background, a license plate, an ID number on a desk, a colleague's email on a screen.

Photo Censor pixelates or blurs a precise rectangle inside the same browser tab, leaving the rest of the photo untouched. Strip the hidden layer and mask the visible one; the two jobs take about a minute together.

Run this sequence on any photo before it goes to a stranger, a platform, or a public channel.

• ViewView: open the photo in the metadata viewer and read the location, device, and time groups before deciding anything.
• StripStrip: remove the metadata in the default lossless tier, and mask any sensitive detail visible in the pixels.
• Verify and keepVerify and keep: trust the re-read verification, download the cleaned copy, and keep the original—its metadata is often valuable to you.