Remove metadata from images

What your photos say behind your back

A photo from your phone typically embeds the GPS coordinates of where it was taken (often to a few meters), the exact date and time, your device make and model, and the camera settings used. Post it, e-mail it, or attach it to a listing, and anyone with a metadata viewer reads all of it. Most platforms strip metadata on upload — but not all, and forwarding a file directly preserves everything.

The classic cases: selling something from home, sharing apartment photos, posting from a location you would rather not disclose, or publishing screenshots from a work machine that tags software versions.

Removal by construction, not by filter

Metadata removers that parse and delete tags can miss proprietary ones. dotwebp takes the structural route: the image is decoded to raw pixels and a brand-new file is encoded from them. Metadata lives beside the pixels, not in them — so the new file cannot contain what was never copied. Orientation is applied first, so stripping the tag does not turn your photo sideways.

And because everything runs in your browser, you are not uploading your GPS-tagged photo to a stranger’s server in order to remove the GPS tag — which would defeat the whole point.

Verifying the result

Do not take our word for it: run the downloaded copy through any EXIF viewer and compare it with the original. The clean copy shows no location, no device, no timestamps — just image dimensions and format, which are properties of the pixels themselves.