About Delete Image Metadata

Why this exists

Most online metadata removers ask you to upload a photo to a server in order to make it more private, then tell you the job is done without showing you anything. Both halves of that are backwards.

This tool processes images on your own device and shows you the file's contents before and after — including anything it deliberately left in place. If a format cannot be handled, it says so instead of returning a file that quietly changed nothing.

How it is built

The processing engine parses each container directly — JPEG marker segments, PNG chunks, WebP RIFF chunks — and rebuilds the file without its metadata blocks. The compressed image data is copied across byte for byte, which is why cleaning is lossless and dimensions never change.

Reading tags is handled by exifr, an established open-source parser. Removal is our own container-level code, covered by a test suite that builds real files with real metadata, strips them, and asserts on the resulting bytes rather than on UI state.

The site is a Next.js application deployed on Vercel. Pages are statically generated, there is no database, and the tool requires no server-side runtime at all.

The rules this project follows

Some of these are unusual enough to be worth stating plainly.

• Never claim a removal that has not been verified against the output file
• Never advertise a format the engine cannot actually write
• Never publish a page for a tool that does not exist — roadmap routes stay noindex
• Never send image content, metadata values or filenames to analytics
• Never make absolute security claims; state limitations in the same breath as capabilities

What is next

Batch processing, selective field removal, and support for more formats — HEIC writing, PDF and video — are the planned directions. Each will ship when its output can be verified, not when its landing page is ready.