Processing happens entirely in your browser — your photo is never uploaded anywhere. Re-drawing the image onto a canvas and re-exporting it removes EXIF metadata (including GPS location, camera model and timestamp) that many phone photos carry by default.
Modern smartphone photos typically embed a block of metadata called EXIF data directly inside the image file, invisible when you simply look at the picture but fully readable by anyone who inspects the file itself. For travel photos specifically, this commonly includes the exact GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken, the precise date and time, and the camera or phone model used. Sharing a photo online with this data intact can reveal far more about your location and movements than most people intend when they post a holiday photo.
A photo taken at home carries the same privacy exposure in principle, but a travel photo posted while you're actively away is a more sensitive case: it can reveal in real time that your home is currently empty, or pinpoint your exact location abroad to anyone who knows how to check an image's metadata, which is a simple, widely known technique rather than requiring any special tools. Posting travel photos to public social media accounts while a trip is still ongoing is exactly the scenario where stripped metadata offers the most practical benefit.
This tool works by redrawing your photo onto a blank canvas element inside your browser and then exporting that canvas as a brand new image file. Because the canvas only ever receives the visual pixel data, not the original file's metadata block, the exported copy is a clean image with no EXIF data attached, while your original file on your device remains completely untouched. This entire process runs locally in your browser using standard web technology — your photo is never uploaded to a server at any point in the process.
The output is a visually identical copy of your photo, since only the invisible metadata is removed, not the image content itself, so there's no visible quality change beyond a very minor recompression from the export step. It's worth noting that some platforms already strip metadata automatically on upload, which means this step is most valuable for messaging apps, cloud drives or personal blogs that may preserve the original file including its metadata, rather than assuming every platform handles this for you.
Running photos through a metadata stripper before posting, particularly ones taken at or near your accommodation, is a low-effort habit that closes off a specific and often overlooked privacy gap. It's especially worth doing for any photo you plan to post publicly while a trip is still in progress, since that's the exact window in which revealing your real-time location carries the most practical risk.
A final habit worth building: check this before posting from any trip, not only ones to unfamiliar or higher-risk destinations, since the privacy benefit of removing hidden location data costs nothing and applies just as usefully to a routine weekend trip as to a longer international one.
No. The entire process, from reading the file to redrawing it on a canvas to generating the cleaned download, happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your photo is never sent to a server.
Visually, no — only the invisible metadata is removed. There can be a very minor recompression from the export step, generally not noticeable at normal viewing sizes.
Many major platforms do strip metadata on upload, but not all of them, and messaging apps, email attachments and cloud storage often preserve it. Cleaning the file yourself removes any doubt regardless of the platform.
This tool processes one photo per upload. For several photos, repeat the upload-and-clean process for each one.