EXIF Viewer & Remover

The EXIF Viewer & Remover reads every piece of hidden metadata embedded in a photo — camera make and model, the exact date and time it was taken, exposure settings, and often GPS coordinates pinpointing where the picture was shot — and displays it all in a readable list. If you'd rather that information didn't travel with the file, one click re-encodes the image and strips every field out, leaving the visible picture untouched.

Most phone cameras and DSLRs embed this metadata automatically, and most people never see it because normal photo viewers hide it by default. That's exactly the problem: a photo shared on a forum, marketplace listing, or social media post can carry your home's GPS coordinates or the specific camera and lens you own without any visual sign that data is there. Journalists protecting a source's location, sellers not wanting to reveal their address, and anyone posting photos publicly all have good reason to check before sharing.

Viewing works by parsing the file's EXIF, TIFF and GPS metadata blocks with a dedicated parsing library, translating raw tag values into readable labels and human-friendly formats — dates as local time strings, GPS coordinates as decimal degrees, exposure as a readable fraction. Removal takes an entirely different, more reliable approach: rather than trying to selectively delete specific metadata tags (which risks missing an obscure field), the tool redraws the image onto an HTML5 canvas and re-exports it as a new file. Canvas re-encoding doesn't carry metadata forward at all, so the output file is guaranteed clean.

Both steps happen entirely in your browser — the photo is parsed and, if you choose, re-encoded locally, with nothing ever uploaded to a server. One trade-off to know: because removal re-encodes the pixel data, a JPEG stripped this way gets a fresh (very high quality) JPEG compression pass rather than a byte-for-byte-identical file with just the metadata cut out, so the exported file size may differ slightly from the original.