Every photo your phone takes carries a hidden data trail: camera model, exact GPS coordinates, the second it was shot. This free photo metadata remover strips all of it in your browser, so you can hand off clean photos without wondering what's still attached to them.
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The Process
How to Remove Photo Metadata, Step by Step
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Drop In Your Photos
Add one photo or several at once, individually or as a batch. Whole-folder selection isn't supported yet, so pick the files themselves.
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Your Browser Does the Work
Each file is decoded and processed locally, using your own browser's image engine. Nothing is sent to a server at any point.
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Metadata Is Stripped & Rebuilt
Camera make/model, timestamps, and GPS coordinates are removed. Turn on an optional setting, and a new, minimal set replaces them.
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Download Your Clean Copies
Grab a ZIP, download photos separately, or export a CSV of filenames and alt text for every image.
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A Free EXIF Remover That Never Leaves Your Browser
You don't have to take our word for it. Any browser's built-in developer tools can show you exactly what this page does and doesn't send anywhere. Here's how, click by click.
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Right-click anywhere on this page and choose Inspect from the menu that appears.
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In the panel that opens, click the Network tab.
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Drop in a photo and click Optimize. Leave the Network panel open while it runs.
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Watch what shows up. You'll only see local blob: entries with 0 B transferred, proof nothing left your browser.
Why HEIC Is Different
Most browsers can't read HEIC photos on their own. Safari is an exception: it already knows how, so on Safari a HEIC photo processes right away, no extra step needed. On other browsers, the first time you drop a HEIC photo in, this tool quickly fetches a small, free piece of code that teaches your browser how to open that format.
That download is code, not your photo. Your photo itself is never part of it, and it's never uploaded anywhere. Everything else, reading the photo, converting it, stripping its metadata, compressing it, still happens inside your own browser, exactly like every other file type.
That one download is the only extra thing this tool ever reaches the internet for, and only on browsers that need it. JPG, PNG and WebP photos never trigger it, and your photo itself is never part of what gets sent or received.
How This Tool Removes EXIF Data
Every photo file carries a block of hidden Exif metadata: the camera model, the exact time it was taken, and often the GPS coordinates of wherever you were standing. This tool reads that file, draws the image onto a blank canvas inside your browser, and saves a brand new file from that canvas. The old EXIF block simply isn't there anymore, because the new file was never built with it.
Removing that hidden data doesn't touch the picture itself. The pixels are redrawn exactly as they were. What can change the picture is a separate setting: this tool converts to WebP and resizes larger images by default, because that keeps file sizes small for faster-loading pages. Both are optional and can be turned off in Advanced Controls if you'd rather keep the original format and resolution untouched.
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Here's exactly what this exif data remover clears from a photo by default, and what's left for you to turn on yourself.
Data Type
Removed?
Notes
Camera make & model
Yes
Stripped on every photo, no setting needed
Date & time taken
Yes
Gone unless you add your own metadata back
GPS coordinates
Yes
Unless you turn on Geo-Tagging and add your own
Software / editing history
Yes
Any trace of past edits is dropped
The image itself
Pixels unchanged*
*Resize & WebP conversion are on by default, both togglable
Bonus Feature
Geo-Tagging: A Bonus for Local SEO Professionals
This tool can also write a latitude and longitude into a photo's metadata, with a random jitter so a batch of photos doesn't all share the exact same pin. If you're building out a local SEO or rank-and-rent site and want your images to carry a location footprint, it's one toggle away. For everyone else, it stays off by default. Most people visiting this page just want their photos clean.
Comparison
Upload-Based Tools vs. GeoLocal
Most free EXIF removers work the same way: you upload your photo to someone else's server, it gets processed there, and you download the result. GeoLocal skips that step entirely.
Typical Upload-Based Tools
GeoLocal
Where processing happens
On their server
In your browser only
Account or sign-up
Sometimes required
Never
Batch limit
Often capped (5–20 photos)
No fixed limit, bounded by your device
Can you verify the "no upload" claim?
Rarely. You take their word for it
Yes, with your browser's own DevTools
Cost
Often paywalled past a few uses
Free
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Stripping EXIF data has zero effect on the image itself; it's a separate block of text, not pixels. What can affect quality is this tool's default compression settings, which convert photos to WebP and resize anything larger than 1200px to keep file sizes down for faster pages. Those are separate toggles in Advanced Controls, and you can turn either off if you want the original resolution and format untouched.
Yes. Select as many individual photos as you like in one go. Whole-folder selection isn't supported yet, so you'll need to pick the files themselves rather than a folder. There's no fixed limit built into the tool; the real ceiling is how much memory your own device can hold at once.
Yes. Most browsers can't read Apple's HEIC format on their own, so the first time you drop a HEIC photo in, this tool quickly fetches a small, free piece of code that teaches your browser how to open it. Safari already knows how to read HEIC, so on Safari this step is skipped and processing starts right away; on other browsers it takes a few extra seconds the first time, then works normally after that. The one limit: browsers can't save a photo back out as HEIC, so your result comes back as JPEG or WebP, never HEIC. If you'd rather stay on HEIC, convert on your phone first (Settings, Camera, Formats, Most Compatible saves new photos as JPEG).
It's not a bug, and it's not something this tool does. If you've converted a HEIC photo to JPEG using your phone, another app, or a different tool (this one included), you may have noticed it got bigger. That's because HEIC uses a newer, more efficient compression method, based on HEVC/H.265, than JPEG's older one. At the same visual quality, HEIC packs the same picture into fewer bytes, so converting it to JPEG or WebP for wider compatibility almost always makes the file larger, even though nothing about the image got worse.
Your photos, no. Every step (reading the photo, removing its metadata, compressing it, writing new metadata back in) happens inside your own browser's memory, and no photo or file you drop in is ever sent anywhere. There are two narrow exceptions, and neither one touches your photos: the optional city search box under Geo-Tagging sends a typed place name to OpenStreetMap's search service to look up coordinates, and the first HEIC photo you upload fetches a small, free piece of code that teaches your browser how to read that format. Nothing else on this page makes a network request. See the section above for how to check that yourself with your browser's own developer tools.
GeoLocal doesn't need an account, a subscription, or a reason. It's a photo metadata remover you drop your photos into, take out what you don't want attached to them, and the only copy that ever exists anywhere is the one sitting in your downloads folder.
