Privacy tools

Strip metadata and clean files before you share them.

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There is an obvious contradiction in uploading a file to a website in order to make it more private. Every tool in this category runs entirely on your own machine for that reason: the photo whose location you want removed is never transmitted anywhere, and neither is the document you are stripping author details from. The work happens in the tab, and the cleaned copy is written straight back to your downloads folder.

Tools in this category

Protect PDF with a Password Encrypt your PDF so it can only be opened with the password you choose. Encryption happens locally — we never see anything. Redact PDF (Permanent) Draw black boxes over sensitive text or images. Pages are re-rendered so the content underneath is destroyed — impossible to recover. Edit PDF Metadata Inspect the hidden document properties of any PDF and rewrite or clear them — useful for privacy and for tidy document libraries. Remove EXIF Data from Photos Drop your photos below and wipe GPS coordinates, camera model, timestamps and every hidden EXIF tag — without touching image quality. Everything runs locally in your browser. Remove Metadata from PDF Files PDFs silently store the author's name, the software used and creation timestamps. Drop your PDFs below to wipe the document properties and XMP data — locally, losslessly, privately. Photo Metadata Viewer Curious what your files reveal about you? Drop any photo or PDF to get an instant, detailed report of every embedded metadata field — then remove it all with one click if you wish.

About these tools

What a photo says about you

A picture taken on a phone typically embeds GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, the exact timestamp, the device model and serial-level identifiers, and sometimes the owner name configured on the camera. Posting it publicly can therefore publish your home address without a word of text. Messaging apps and large social platforms often strip this, but email, cloud links and direct file shares do not.

Documents remember their history

Office files and PDFs carry author names, the organisation from the licence, creation and revision times, the software version, and sometimes tracked changes or comments that were never meant to leave the building. Metadata removal clears those fields so the file communicates its content and nothing about the machine and person that produced it.

Local means local

These tools use the File and Canvas APIs to read your file, rewrite it without the metadata blocks, and hand you a new copy — with no request to any server at any point. You can verify that yourself: open your browser's network panel, run a file through, and watch that nothing is sent. That is the standard a privacy tool should be held to.