Strip hidden data.Keep every pixel.
GPS positions, camera serials and timestamps — found, shown, stripped. Pixels untouched.
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PNG / JPG · METADATA STRIPPED ON YOUR DEVICE
PIXELS UNTOUCHED — NO RE-ENCODING, NO QUALITY LOSS
How it works
Clean removes hidden data at the byte level: EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comment segments from JPEG files, and eXIf, tEXt, zTXt, iTXt and tIME chunks from PNG files. Colour profiles (ICC) are kept, since they affect how colours render on screen rather than exposing anything personal about you.
Because Clean only deletes metadata segments and never re-encodes the pixels themselves, there is zero quality loss — the image data is byte-for-byte identical to the original, just without the extra chunks that carried hidden information about the camera or the photographer.
Before stripping anything, Clean shows you what it found — camera model, capture date, author, and whether GPS coordinates were present — without ever displaying the actual coordinates on screen. Everything runs in your browser, so the image never leaves your device.
Specs
- JPEG
- Removes EXIF/XMP/IPTC/comment segments
- PNG
- Removes eXIf/tEXt/zTXt/iTXt/tIME chunks
- Kept
- ICC colour profiles
- Quality
- Zero loss — pixels are never re-encoded
- GPS
- Presence is flagged, coordinates never shown
- Where it runs
- 100% in your browser — never uploaded
Questions
Does removing metadata reduce image quality?
No. Clean deletes metadata segments at the byte level without re-encoding the pixels, so the underlying image data is completely unchanged and there is zero quality loss from the process.
Does PiqPair show my GPS coordinates before removing them?
No. If a photo contains GPS data, Clean flags that a location was found so you know it was present, but it never displays the actual coordinates anywhere on screen before or after removal.
What metadata does Clean actually remove?
From JPEG it removes EXIF, XMP, IPTC and comment segments; from PNG it removes eXIf, tEXt, zTXt, iTXt and tIME chunks. ICC colour profiles are kept as-is in both formats.
Is my image uploaded to check for metadata?
No. Clean runs entirely in your browser, inspecting and stripping metadata directly on your device — the image is never sent to a server at any point in the process.
Can I see what metadata was in my photo before it's removed?
Yes. Clean shows what it found for each image, listed out with byte sizes, before you download the cleaned version, so you can see exactly what was present and what got stripped out.