EXIF Remove - Strip, Randomize & View Metadata
file being worked on, so a large batch no longer looks frozen. Progress is
weighted by file size, so the bar reflects the time left rather than just
how many files are done.
* Verification can be turned off in settings if you prefer speed. It stays on
by default, and files cleaned without it are not marked as verified.
* Verification is about twice as fast, so it costs less than it used to.
Share files to EXIF Remove from any app, pick a template, and pass the cleaned copies on. Or open the app and pick files directly.
Templates control what happens to each category:
* Location (GPS): keep, remove or randomize
* Date and time: keep, remove or randomize
* Camera, software and author info: keep or remove
* Other metadata: keep or remove
Three built-in templates come ready to edit: Remove everything, Remove location only, and Scramble location and date. Add your own, set a default, and skip the picker to clean in one tap.
What gets cleaned
JPEG, PNG and WebP are cleaned without re-encoding, so the pixels are untouched. HEIC and AVIF are converted to clean JPEGs. Videos (MP4, MOV and 3GP) are cleaned in place, also without re-encoding, so even large recordings finish instantly.
XMP, IPTC, comments and embedded thumbnails are always removed. ICC color profiles are kept, so colors never change. Cleaned files can be given random names, because file names leak information too.
Phones also hide whole files after the end of an image: a motion photo's video, an Ultra HDR gain map, a second copy of the picture. Each carries its own record of where you were and what device you own. EXIF Remove drops those as well.
See what was removed
After each clean you get a report for every file: what was removed, what was kept, and what was hidden inside. Each cleaned image is then re-parsed from scratch and withheld if it cannot be proven free of metadata.
The built-in metadata viewer lets you inspect any photo or video yourself and preview exactly what a template would do to it.
No network access: the app does not request the internet permission, so Android blocks it at the system level. No tracking, no ads. Free software under the GNU GPL v3 or later.
- Author: Jakob Kreft
- License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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* Each file shows what was removed, including hidden payloads that no
metadata viewer can show
* Anything that can't be proven clean is withheld, not shared
Leak fixes:
* Motion photos and Ultra HDR hid a second copy of your location and
device after the image. Now dropped
* HEIC and AVIF were mistaken for videos and passed through uncleaned
* Orientation and embedded thumbnails are removed too
* Tutorial buttons no longer sit under the navigation bar