EXIF Viewer & Remover

Drop a photo and the tool reads every metadata block inside it — EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, JPEG comments, PNG text chunks — and says in plain words what the file gives away: where it was taken, to a few metres, with a map link; when, to the second; what phone or camera and lens took it; and, more often than people expect, who — the owner name, artist and copyright fields, and the camera body and lens serial numbers that identify a specific device across every photo it ever took. The full tag list is there too, grouped by what each tag reveals.

Removal is lossless for JPEG, PNG and WebP. The compressed picture data is copied through byte for byte and only the metadata segments are left out, so the clean file is pixel-identical to the original — unlike re-saving through an editor, which re-compresses it. One deliberate exception: phone photos store portrait shots sideways plus a rotation flag, and stripping that flag makes the file display sideways everywhere, so a 32-byte block holding only the orientation number is kept. It contains nothing else. The colour profile is kept by default for the same reason (it describes colours, not you) and can be dropped with a checkbox.

Nothing leaves the tab. Every other “remove EXIF online” result uploads the photo — coordinates and all — to a server before stripping them, which is the one thing a privacy tool should not do. Here the file is parsed and rewritten in your browser, batch of forty at a time, and the map link is an ordinary link you may choose to open; no map tile, script or pixel is loaded from anyone. HEIC files can be inspected but not rewritten in a browser; export them as JPEG first.