Drop a photo and it lists the information stored inside the file, next to the picture: the camera or phone and lens, shutter speed, aperture, ISO and focal length, when it was taken (with the time zone offset when the camera wrote one), the GPS position with altitude and the direction the camera faced, serial numbers, the owner's or artist's name, the software that saved it, and the XMP and IPTC fields that editing and photo-agency software add. It reads JPEG, PNG, WebP, and the metadata of HEIC and AVIF files from iPhones and recent Android phones, even in browsers that cannot display those formats. The file is parsed by code on this page; it is not uploaded.
The privacy score
Above the details, the tool says plainly what the file gives away, most sensitive first:
- A GPS location is the big one. Phone cameras usually store it with five or six decimals, which pins the spot to a few metres, so a picture taken at home tells anyone who opens the file where home is. The tool shows the coordinates in decimal and in degrees, minutes and seconds, the altitude and the fix time, with buttons to copy them or a map link. No map is loaded: the links open OpenStreetMap or Google Maps only if you click them.
- Serial numbers of the camera body or lens link every photo from that device together, across accounts and years.
- Names: camera owner, artist, copyright, creator.
- An embedded preview (EXIF thumbnail). Some editors crop the main image but leave the old preview inside, so the part you cropped out can still be in the file.
- Dates and times, the device model, and the software are less sensitive on their own but help match photos to a person.
The score adds these up (a location alone makes it high) so you can decide at a glance whether a file is safe to post.
Remove it, without losing quality
Remove metadata and download saves a clean copy. For JPEG, PNG and WebP this happens without re-encoding: the compressed picture is copied byte for byte and only the metadata blocks are left out, so there is no quality loss at all and the file gets smaller. Two details are handled for you. The EXIF orientation is written back on its own, because many phone photos are stored sideways and rely on it to display upright. The colour profile is kept by default, because removing it makes wide-gamut photos look dull; you can remove it too. The tool then reads the copy again and confirms that no location, names or dates are left. HEIC and AVIF are re-saved as JPEG by the browser where it can decode them.
The image toolkit cleans many photos at once while converting or resizing them, and the GPS removal guide explains how to check your phone's camera settings. The article on what EXIF reveals and how apps strip it goes through every field.
