Remove EXIF data from your photos

What is EXIF metadata?

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a block of hidden data your camera or phone writes into every photo. It records the technical and contextual details of the shot: the camera and lens, ISO and aperture, the exact capture date and time, the camera body and lens serial numbers, and — on phones and GPS cameras — your location. It rides along inside the file invisibly; you only see it if you go looking with a tool like this one.

What EXIF can reveal about you

Individually these tags seem harmless, but together they're a fingerprint. The serial number links every photo from the same body — useful for tracing a stolen camera, or for de-anonymising someone who posts under different names. The timestamp says exactly when. GPS says exactly where. The camera model narrows down who. Before you publish a photo, sell gear online, or send an image to a stranger, it's worth knowing what's attached.

Inspect first, then strip

Drop a photo above and Pixadel lays out everything it found — camera, lens, ISO/aperture, capture time, serial, GPS — flagging the privacy-sensitive ones. Then remove it: JPG and TIFF are stripped in place (pixels untouched, metadata gone); a RAW can stay RAW with GPS removed and serial masked, or be exported to a fully metadata-free JPG. Batch several files and download them as a ZIP.

No upload — it all runs in your browser

A metadata remover you have to upload to is a contradiction: you'd be handing your sensitive file to a server to make it private. Pixadel does everything locally. The file is read, shown, and cleaned by code in your browser and never transmitted, so inspecting a private photo costs you nothing.

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