Photo EXIF Remover: MetaClean

About Photo EXIF Remover: MetaClean

Every photo your phone takes carries hidden data you never see. Inside the file sit the exact GPS coordinates where it was taken, the time, your camera's make, model and serial number, the app that edited it, and a small uncropped preview of the original frame. Videos carry the same thing inside their container.

Share that file on a marketplace listing, a forum or a chat, and you may be handing over your home address.

MetaClean finds that data and removes it.

WHAT METACLEAN LOOKS FOR
MetaClean inspects six separate categories of hidden metadata:

• Location — GPS latitude and longitude, altitude, speed, bearing, and IPTC location names
• Device fingerprint — camera make, model, body serial number, lens model and lens serial
• Software trails — the app that edited the file, original file paths, system usernames
• Hidden thumbnails — the small uncropped preview EXIF keeps, which can still show what you cropped out
• Timestamps — original capture time, digitised time and UTC offset
• Personal and AI tags — creator, copyright, caption, keywords, and the IPTC 2025.1 AI provenance fields

Every file gets a threat score, so the risky ones are obvious at a glance. One tap filters your gallery down to just the photos and videos that are leaking GPS.

VIDEO, NOT ONLY PHOTOS
Most metadata cleaners stop at images. MetaClean also reads MP4, MOV, M4V and 3GP video, and neutralises the GPS, device, encoder and creation-date atoms inside the container.

Video is cleaned in place. Nothing is re-encoded, no frame is touched and the file length never changes, so the cleaned clip plays exactly like the original at full quality. You can play both copies inside the app and switch between ORIGINAL and SANITIZED to confirm that for yourself before you delete anything.

ONE-TAP PRESETS
• Social Media — strips GPS, hidden thumbnails and device serial numbers
• Marketplace Seller — adds seller telemetry and file paths
• Strict Anonymous — purges all six categories

Or open Customize and pick exactly which categories to remove.

BATCH CLEANING
Select as many photos and videos as you like and clean them in a single pass, with live progress and a cancel button. Your originals are never modified — MetaClean always writes a separate cleaned copy.

IT TELLS YOU WHAT IT CANNOT SEE
This is the part most cleaners get wrong. When MetaClean cannot parse a file's container — AVI, MKV and WebM among them — it says so and marks the file UNVERIFIED, instead of quietly reporting "no metadata found". When a scan has only covered part of an album, it shows you exactly how much. You are never told a file is safe just because the app failed to read it.

CHECK THE WORK YOURSELF
• Field-by-field inspector — see every tag found, and delete them one at a time
• Raw hex viewer — look at the actual bytes
• SHA-256 audit certificate — export a JSON record with before and after hashes
• History vault — locked behind your fingerprint or face unlock

PROCESSED ON YOUR DEVICE
Your photos and videos are read, inspected and cleaned entirely on your phone. No image or video is ever uploaded. There is no account, no sign-in and no cloud sync.

MetaClean is free and supported by ads. The app uses the internet only to load those ads, send anonymous crash diagnostics and check for updates — never to send your media or your metadata. Settings states this in the app at any time.

ALSO INCLUDED
• Keep original gallery dates so your timeline stays in order
• OLED true-black theme
• English, Spanish and Urdu

Open MetaClean and look at what your last photo is carrying. Most people are surprised.