Remove metadata from a JPG

What hides inside a JPG

A JPG straight from a phone or camera carries an EXIF block — GPS location, the device model, the capture date and time, and sometimes a serial number — tucked into an APP1 marker near the start of the file. Editing apps can add more (XMP, Photoshop data). None of it shows in the picture, but it's all readable by anyone who opens the file in a metadata viewer.

Stripped in place — same JPG, metadata gone

Because a JPG is already a finished, shareable image, Pixadel doesn't re-encode it. It removes the metadata markers (EXIF/XMP/Photoshop) and writes the rest of the file back untouched — so the image data is byte-for-byte identical and you get a .jpg, not a converted copy. No quality loss, no format change, no re-compression: just the same photo without its hidden tags.

One file or a whole folder

Drop a single JPG to inspect what it exposes and clean it, or drop a batch and strip them all into a ZIP. Pixadel also handles TIFF the same way (stripped in place) and camera RAW files (CR2/CR3/NEF/ARW/DNG), so you can clean a mixed folder of photos in one pass — each file keeps its own format.

Nothing leaves your browser

Uploading a JPG to a website to make it private would defeat the point. Pixadel reads and strips the metadata locally, in your browser, so the file you're trying to protect is never sent anywhere. It works offline once the page has loaded.

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