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EXIF Inspector & Cleaner

See all photo metadata (EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, MakerNotes) and download a cleaned copy.

JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, HEIC, AVIF or GIF (RAW files can be inspected but not cleaned), max 50 MB.

Try an example: JPEG with camera and GPS tags → remove all · Remove only the GPS location

How it works

Lists every metadata tag in a photo, grouped into EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, MakerNotes and colour profile, and warns when the picture reveals where it was taken. Creates a cleaned copy without re-compressing the image: remove everything, only the GPS location, or everything except orientation and colour profile, then checks the cleaned file to prove it.

  • exiftool reads every metadata block (-a -G0:1). Tags are grouped by where they live: EXIF (IFD0/ExifIFD), GPS (the GPS IFD plus XMP GPS tags), XMP, IPTC, MakerNotes (manufacturer data such as serial numbers), the ICC colour profile and file structure. Server-side file system entries (temporary names, dates) are not shown.
  • GPS coordinates are shown as decimal degrees so you can see what others could see. No map service is contacted.
  • Cleaning edits the metadata only; the compressed image data is copied unchanged (no re-encoding, no quality loss). "Remove all" deletes every writable tag (including the colour profile); "Only GPS" deletes the GPS IFD and all GPS* tags; "Keep orientation and colour profile" deletes everything, then copies back Orientation and the colour-space tags (ICC profile, ColorSpace).
  • Verification re-reads the cleaned file with exiftool and counts remaining tags per group; for JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and TIFF ImageMagick also compares a hash of the decoded pixels before and after.
  • RAW files are inspect-only: deleting their metadata can make them undecodable.

Metadata is only one way photos leak information: faces, street signs and reflections in the picture itself are not removed.

For scripts and AI agents

  • JSON API: POST https://exifinspectorcleaner.usefulweb.site/api/v1/calculate (same calculation as this page)
  • Interface description: OpenAPI 3.1 · AI guide: llms.txt
  • MCP server (Streamable HTTP): https://exifinspectorcleaner.usefulweb.site/mcp · tool name exif_inspector_cleaner
Example request
curl -s -X POST https://exifinspectorcleaner.usefulweb.site/api/v1/calculate \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{…see OpenAPI examples…}'

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