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Location, baked in
Phones quietly stamp every photo with the GPS coordinates of where it was taken. Post one of your home, your kid's school, your office — and that address travels with it.
[ 01 ] / hero
Remove hidden data from your photos. Without uploading them.
CleanImages strips location, camera info, timestamps, and AI tags from your images — entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your device.
CleanImages tool
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100% IN YOUR BROWSER · NO UPLOADS, EVER · NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED. Try it offline. Disconnect your network and reload — it still works.
[ 02 ] / the problem
Your photos carry more than you think.
Every image you take or download can carry invisible metadata — the exact GPS coordinates where it was shot, your camera or phone model, the date and time, editing history, and tags that mark whether a picture was AI-generated.
Most people never see it. Anyone you send the file to can.
ii.
Device fingerprints
EXIF carries make, model, lens, settings, and sometimes a unique camera serial. Enough to link a stack of 'anonymous' photos back to one device.
iii.
AI receipts
Generators like Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, Midjourney, and Firefly embed model names, prompts, and C2PA credentials. Easy to miss; easy for tools to read.
[ 03 ] / how it works
Clean in three steps. Nothing leaves your browser.
- 01
Drop in your image
Drag a file or pick one. It loads straight into your browser's memory — no server, no upload. Your file never touches a network.
- 02
See what's inside
We show you the hidden metadata we found — location, device, timestamps, AI tags, and more — labelled by source and severity.
- 03
Download the clean copy
One click strips it all and hands you back a clean image, ready to share anywhere. Lossless for JPEG/PNG/WebP — pixels untouched.
Want proof? Turn off your internet and try it — CleanImages still works.
[ 04 ] / what you get
- i.
Private by design
Your images are processed locally and never uploaded. We can't see them, store them, or leak them — because they never reach us.
- ii.
Clean without quality loss
We remove metadata while leaving your pixels untouched, so your photo looks exactly as it did — just without the hidden data.
- iii.
You decide what stays
Strip everything, or keep what's useful (like copyright) and remove only what's sensitive (like your location). Your call.
[ 05 ] / what we strip
See what's hiding in your photos.
Seven layers of metadata, surgically removed in one pass. Most of it stays invisible until someone with the right tool opens your file.
Location data
The exact coordinates baked into your photos by your phone.
Camera & device info
Make, model, lens, settings — sometimes a unique camera serial.
Timestamps
When the photo was taken, edited, or last touched.
EXIF, IPTC & XMP
All three standard metadata layers stripped in one pass.
AI-generation tags
Signatures and parameters from DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Firefly.
Content credentials
Embedded C2PA provenance manifests removed.
Hidden thumbnails
Small embedded previews that often keep their own location data.
[ 06 ] / privacy
Privacy you can actually verify.
Most “private” tools still upload your file and ask you to trust their policy. CleanImages is different: the cleaning happens entirely inside your browser using built-in web technology.
There's no upload step to trust — watch the network tab and you'll see nothing leave. The app works offline. Privacy isn't a promise here. It's the architecture.
- image bytes uploaded
- 0.
- accounts required
- 0.
- processing location
- browser.
- works offline
- yes.
[ 07 ] / questions
Frequently asked.
Are my images uploaded anywhere?+
No. Everything happens in your browser, on your device. Your images are never sent to us or anyone else. You can verify it by cleaning an image with your internet disconnected.
Will cleaning reduce my image quality?+
Not with our default method — we remove the metadata while leaving your pixels untouched. For a few formats we re-render through a canvas, which can re-compress; we'll tell you when that applies.
What metadata do you remove?+
Location (GPS), camera and device details, timestamps, EXIF/IPTC/XMP data, AI-generation tags and parameters, content credentials, and hidden embedded thumbnails.
Can CleanImages make AI images undetectable?+
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. We remove AI metadata tags and can change a file's basic fingerprint, but modern AI-image detectors analyze the pixels themselves and aren't reliably fooled by metadata removal. We focus on privacy and clean exports, not evading detection.
What formats are supported?+
JPEG, PNG, and WebP today with lossless byte-level stripping. GIF and other formats fall back to a canvas re-encode. HEIC support is on the way.
Do I need an account?+
No. You can clean images anonymously. CleanImages is free to use — no paywall, no credit card, no catch.
[ 08 ] / latest posts
Field notes on image privacy.
See all postsWhat EXIF actually is — and why it matters for your privacy
Every photo you take embeds invisible metadata. Here's what's in it, who can read it, and how to think about removing it.
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- EXIF
- GPS
- fundamentals
C2PA Content Credentials, explained without the marketing
Adobe, Microsoft, and OpenAI are pushing a new image-signing standard. Here's what it actually does, what it doesn't do, and what it means for your photos.
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- C2PA
- AI
- provenance
Why in-browser processing actually matters (and how to verify it)
"Your file never leaves your device" is marketing copy on a lot of sites. Here's what it means when it's true — and how to check.
Read the post
- architecture
- trust
[ 09 ] / your turn
Clean your first image in seconds.
No sign-up, no upload, no catch. Try it now and see what was hiding in your photos.