Remove Metadata: Photo & Video

Remove Metadata is a privacy utility. It removes the hidden metadata from photos, videos, audio and documents and changes each file's fingerprint (hash), without changing what you see.

WHAT IT IS FOR: PRIVACY
The purpose is personal privacy and data minimization, the principle behind laws such as the GDPR and Brazil's LGPD: share only what you choose to share. The app does not collect, store or send anything, so there is no data about you for anyone to process.

WHY IT MATTERS
Your files carry information you can't see on screen: GPS location, date and time, device model, author name, company and edit history. On top of that, every file has a hash, a fingerprint calculated from its bytes: two identical copies have the same hash, so the copy you share can be matched to the one you keep. The app creates a clean copy, without those traces and with a new hash, ready to share or back up to the cloud.

100% OFFLINE, AND YOU CAN CHECK IT
• Everything happens on your device. The app does not collect, store or send any data anywhere.
• The app makes no internet connections and has no account, ads, trackers or analytics SDKs.
• It works the same in airplane mode: turn it on and try.
• The privacy section of this page says: Data Not Collected.
• In the app, the Privacy guarantee screen shows how to verify each item.

WHAT IT DOES
• JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF photos: removes EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC and comments without re-encoding. Pixels stay identical.
• HEIC, AVIF, RAW, TIFF and BMP: converts to clean JPEG or PNG.
• Video and audio (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV and more): removes tags, chapters and data tracks without re-encoding.
• PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, EPUB and RTF documents: removes author, company, dates, revisions and thumbnails, keeping text and layout.
• Gives every file a new hash (SHA-256), using space the format itself allows.
• Verifies the result and shows a report: what was removed, old hash and new hash.

OPTIONAL EDITS BEFORE CLEANING
• Photo redaction: solid block, mosaic or blur on the areas you mark. The app suggests where faces are, with detection done on the device.
• Remove the audio track from videos.
• Trim the start and end when the batch has a single video.

AI-GENERATED IMAGES AND VIDEOS
Photos and videos made with AI tools usually carry, in their metadata, the tool name, the model, the prompt, the date and provenance labels (XMP, EXIF, C2PA). The app removes those labels like any other metadata and gives the file a new hash. It does not remove invisible marks embedded in the pixels themselves.

YOUR ORIGINALS STAY UNTOUCHED
The app never modifies or deletes your original files. Clean copies go to a separate folder.

WHAT THE APP DOES NOT DO
• It does not hide what is visible: people, plates and places shown in the image remain recognizable. Use redaction to cover what you need.
• It does not guarantee anonymity against every form of identification.

ALSO
• Batch processing with estimated time and a free-space check.
• Guides to upload only the clean copies to iCloud, Google Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.
• One-time purchase: no subscription, no ads and no in-app purchases.

Responsible use: this is a personal privacy app. You are responsible for how you use your files; see the FAQ in the app.