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Lossless Binary APP1/APP13 Pruning

EXIF & Metadata Privacy Scrubber

Audit hidden GPS locations, camera hardware serials, and timestamps embedded in your photos—then scrub them losslessly with zero quality loss or recompression artifacts.

100% Client-Side Privacy GuaranteeZero Cloud Uploads

Your photos are processed directly in your device's memory using binary segment slicing. Zero bytes are uploaded to any server. Completely safe for personal, confidential, and high-security imagery.

Local RAM Only

Drop photos to scrub metadata

Drag & drop single or bulk photos, paste with Ctrl + V, or click Select Photos below.

✓ JPEG / JPG✓ PNG (wipes AI prompts)✓ WebP✓ iPhone HEIC✓ Clipboard Paste✓ Unlimited Bulk Drop

Why Stripping Photo Metadata Matters for Your Privacy

Every photo snapped on a modern smartphone or DSLR camera contains invisible digital tags called EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format). Without realizing it, uploading personal photos to forums, classifieds, or messaging apps can leak your exact coordinates, hardware identity, and routine.

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Exact GPS Geo-tracking

Smartphones automatically embed satellite latitude, longitude, and elevation. Posting a photo of an item for sale or a pet can pinpoint your home address or workplace down to a few feet.

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Hardware Serial Fingerprinting

High-end cameras and phones embed unique body and lens serial numbers. OSINT investigators and tracking bots correlate serial numbers to connect anonymous online accounts to a single device.

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Sub-second Shutter Timestamps

Timestamp tags record the exact second and timezone a photo was shot. Aggregating multiple photos allows observers to map out daily routines, commute schedules, and travel patterns.

How Our True Lossless Binary Stripper Protects Image Quality

Unlike basic web tools that redraw photos onto an HTML5 canvas and recompress them—which degrades image sharpness and alters color balance—our tool uses direct binary segment slicing. It locates the metadata markers (such as JPEG APP1 and PNG tEXt chunks) in memory and removes them while leaving the compressed pixel stream 100% untouched. Your output photo maintains original resolution, sharpness, and color fidelity bit-for-bit.

GPS Coordinate Stripping

Eliminates high-precision satellite coordinates, altitude readings, and timestamp offsets embedded in EXIF and Adobe XMP packets without altering pixel blocks.

Hardware Fingerprint Erasure

Removes unique camera body serial numbers, lens IDs, and owner names to prevent hardware attribution across multi-image OSINT investigations.

Pure Client-Side Zero-Knowledge

All binary slicing and re-encoding executes directly in browser memory using Web Workers and typed arrays. No files are uploaded to any server.