Drag a JPEG onto the light-table, or browse for one. It's read with
FileReader and the bytes never leave this tab. Pull your
network cable; it still works.
A from-scratch EXIF/TIFF/GPS parser surfaces every hidden field, pinned on the image. Location and identity leaks glow amber, with a map link straight to the exact spot your photo pins.
One click drops the metadata segments and hands back a clean JPEG. The compressed pixels are copied byte-for-byte, so there is no re-encode and no quality loss, just the photo minus its dossier.
Every "remove EXIF online" site asks you to upload the exact coordinates you're trying to hide. Metawipe never does. Parsing and stripping happen entirely on your device. Open the network tab and watch it stay silent.
It removes the EXIF block (camera make and model, lens, exposure settings, and the original date and time), the GPS block (latitude, longitude, altitude and GPS timestamp), and the XMP and IPTC records that carry author, copyright and editing history. In JPEG terms it drops every metadata application segment while leaving the compressed image untouched.
No. The file is read with the browser's FileReader API and
every byte stays in the tab. There is no server, no analytics and no
background request. You can disconnect from the internet, drop a photo,
inspect it and download the cleaned copy with the network still off.
No. Metawipe does not re-encode the picture. It copies the compressed scan data byte-for-byte and only skips the metadata segments, so the cleaned JPEG is visually identical to the original. Re-opening the cleaned file in Metawipe reports zero metadata fields.
A single photo can pin the spot it was taken to within a few meters and name the exact device that took it. Posted to a marketplace listing, a forum or a profile, that quietly hands strangers your home location and a device fingerprint. Removing it keeps the picture and drops the trail.
Metawipe reads and cleans JPEG files, the format almost every phone and camera saves by default. Drop a non-JPEG and it tells you instead of failing silently. PNG, WebP and HEIC support are on the list for later.