Bulk Image Metadata Remover

How to remove metadata from images in bulk

1. Add your images. Drop up to 200 JPG, PNG or WebP files onto the box above, or choose them from your computer. They stay on your machine.
2. Run it. There is nothing to configure. Each row tells you what came out of that file once it is done.
3. Download. Take the images one at a time, or the whole batch as a ZIP.

What is actually in your photographs

A photograph taken on a phone carries a great deal more than the picture. The EXIF block records the make, model and often the serial number of the camera, the lens, the exact second the shutter opened, and — if location services were on — the latitude and longitude where you were standing. Editors add their own: XMP from Lightroom, IPTC records from a photo desk, a text chunk naming the software that saved the file.

None of that is visible in the image, and all of it travels with the file when you post it, send it or list it for sale. Removing it is one of the few genuinely useful things you can do to a batch of photographs before they leave your computer.

Why nothing here is re-encoded

The usual way to strip metadata is to open the image and save it again, because that quietly discards everything the encoder was not told to keep. It works, and it costs you quality on every single file — a JPEG that has been through a decoder and an encoder is not the JPEG that went in, whatever the quality setting says.

This tool never opens the picture. It reads the file as a sequence of segments, decides which of them hold metadata, and copies the rest across untouched. The compressed image data in the file you download is byte for byte the data that was in the file you added. That also means an animated WebP stays animated and a progressive JPEG stays progressive, neither of which survives a trip through a canvas.

The one field that stays

EXIF carries a small flag called Orientation, which says how the camera was held. The picture is stored the way the sensor saw it and the flag tells your viewer to turn it. Remove the flag with everything else and every portrait photograph in the batch comes out lying on its side — which is why this tool rebuilds the EXIF block around that one value rather than deleting it. Nothing else survives: the coordinates, the camera, the serial number and the timestamp are all gone.

The colour profile is kept for a similar reason. It describes the image rather than the photographer, and dropping it can visibly shift the colours of anything shot in a wide gamut.

Where this sits beside the other tools

Metadata removal makes a file a little smaller, but it is not a compressor — if size is what you are after, the bulk image compressor is the tool that trades quality for bytes deliberately. If you need a different file format, the bulk image converter does that, and both of those re-encode by design. This one is the only tool here that promises the picture is unchanged. For removing the background rather than the metadata, the bulk background remover handles whole catalogues.

Frequently asked questions

Are my images uploaded anywhere?

No. The file is read and rewritten in your browser, on your own machine. Nothing is sent to a server, which is why the tool needs no account and has no usage limit — and it is the reason a privacy tool is worth having as a page that works this way rather than as one you have to trust.

Does this change the image quality?

No, and it cannot. The tool never opens the picture. It reads the file as bytes, works out which stretches of it hold the metadata, and writes out the stretches that hold the image completely untouched. Most tools that remove EXIF do it by decoding and re-encoding, which costs quality on every file. Here the compressed image data that comes out is byte for byte the data that went in.

Why is the orientation kept when everything else goes?

Because a photograph taken with the camera turned is stored the way the sensor saw it, and one small flag tells your viewer to turn it back. Remove that flag along with the rest and every portrait shot in the batch comes out on its side. So the orientation flag survives and nothing else in EXIF does — no GPS coordinates, no camera make or model, no serial number, no date, no lens, no software. The picture is not rotated or re-saved to achieve this; only the flag is carried across.

What exactly is removed?

From JPEG: the EXIF block apart from the orientation flag, XMP including its extended form, Photoshop and IPTC records, and comment segments. From PNG: the tEXt, iTXt and zTXt text chunks and the eXIf block. From WebP: the EXIF and XMP chunks. Everything else in the file is left exactly as it was found, including segments the tool does not recognise.

Is the colour profile removed too?

No. The ICC colour profile is kept, in all three formats. It is not metadata about you — it is what tells a screen how to render the colours, and removing it can visibly shift them on a wide-gamut photograph.

What happens to a file that has no metadata?

It comes back exactly as it went in, byte for byte, and the row says so. Nothing is rewritten to prove the tool ran, so a batch you have already cleaned can be run again with no effect at all.

How many images can I do at once?

Up to 200 per batch, at 30 MB each. Because nothing is decoded, this is the lightest tool here — a file costs its own bytes rather than the much larger bitmap it would decode to. A file that turns out to be corrupt fails on its own and the rest of the batch carries on.