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Your photos contain GPS coordinates, your name, your camera model, and timestamps — all invisible, all readable by anyone you share with. Strip it all in two seconds.
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a standard for embedding metadata inside image files. Every modern camera and smartphone automatically writes this data into every photo you take. Most people have no idea it's there.
When you share a photo — by email, on social media, in a listing, or as an attachment — the EXIF data travels with it. Anyone who receives or downloads the image can read it with free tools in seconds.
Latitude and longitude precise to within a few metres. Can reveal your home address, workplace, or where your children go to school.
Your name, contact info, and copyright string embedded by your camera or photo editing software.
Camera make and model, lens details, firmware version — useful for tracking which device captured a specific image.
Date and time the photo was taken, edited, and digitised. Can reveal your routine, schedule, or prove you were somewhere.
ISO, aperture, shutter speed, exposure compensation, white balance, and flash — the full technical record of how the shot was taken.
C2PA content credentials embedded by AI tools like DALL-E, Adobe Firefly, and Midjourney — marking the image as AI-generated.
In 2024, researchers demonstrated that a single geotagged photo shared on a public listing site was enough to identify the precise address of the photographer. The EXIF GPS tag was accurate to 4 metres. Most social media platforms strip EXIF on upload — but email, direct messages, WhatsApp, and many file-sharing services do not.
Unlike most online tools, Ghoststrip never uploads your file. Everything runs inside your browser using the same APIs that power native apps.
Drop a photo onto the page or tap "Choose a file." The file is read directly into browser memory — it never leaves your device, not even for a millisecond.
Ghoststrip walks the JPEG/PNG/AVIF marker structure and extracts every metadata field — EXIF IFD0, GPS IFD, SubExif, IFD1 thumbnail metadata, XMP packets, and ICC profiles. You see exactly what was found before anything is removed.
For JPEG files, Ghoststrip uses a byte-level segment stripper rather than canvas re-encoding. APP0–APP15 and COM segments are removed while the compressed image data is preserved byte-for-byte. Zero quality loss. This is different from every other online EXIF remover.
The diff view shows every field that was found and removed. Download the stripped file — same filename, no metadata. A built-in re-verify option is available if you want to confirm the output independently.
Ghoststrip handles every common photo format. Documents are supported too — see the PDF metadata and Word document pages.
No account. No upload. No trace. Your photos stay on your device throughout. Works on desktop and mobile.
Remove EXIF data — no sign-up needed