Every photo from a phone or modern camera carries GPS coordinates, device identifiers, and enough metadata to identify where and when it was taken. Sharing that with a photo online is a privacy leak — often unintentional. The Rankato EXIF Stripper removes every metadata tag (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and JPEG comments) while keeping the pixel data byte-identical. Batch up to 50 files.
What gets removed
Every EXIF tag, every IPTC field, every XMP element, JPEG comments, and thumbnail. What's kept: the image color profile (ICC profile — needed for correct colors), the orientation flag (converted to a physical rotation to avoid sideways-rendering elsewhere), and every pixel exactly as it was.
Selective stripping
Toggle groups: GPS only removes just location while preserving camera info. Personal only removes GPS, serial numbers, and creator fields. All is the default and safest. Every mode preserves pixels perfectly.
Lossless for JPEG
JPEG metadata sits in dedicated header segments — stripping only touches those bytes; the compressed image data is unchanged. That's bit-for-bit lossless. Other formats (PNG, WebP) require a re-encode to strip metadata, but at max quality the result is visually identical.