CapyStrip · tool no. 4
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See what a photo carries — GPS, device, AI fingerprints — then download a clean copy. All local.
CapyStrip shows the hidden data in a photo — GPS location, camera, timestamps, AI-generation traces — and downloads a clean copy with all of it removed, without uploading the photo.
Updated · by Unfolding Dimensions
01 · The drop
Ctrl/⌘+V works too
02 · The report
DemoJPEG · 3.0 MBThis photo has a lot to say.
IMG_4128.jpg — 5 sensitive details found.
40.41680, -3.70380
40° 25′ 0.5″ N · 3° 42′ 13.7″ W
What it confesses
- Carries generation-recipe text (sampler settings in the file)
Privacy
- LocationSensitive
- 40.41680, -3.70380
- Camera make
- Capybara CyberShot Corp.
- Camera modelSensitive
- Capyber-shot DSC-H300
- Body serialSensitive
- 2718281828
- CommentSensitive
- shot from the hostel window, before the rain
Time
- Taken atSensitive
- Aug 12, 2026, 18:42
Camera settings
- Exposure
- 1/250 s
- Aperture
- f/2.8
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 24 mm
Software & AI
- Software
- Adobe Lightroom Classic
Technical
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
- Hidden thumbnail
- Yes — an embedded preview image
The guide
How to view and remove EXIF metadata from a photo
- Step 1
Drop, paste or pick a photo — JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC or TIFF.
- Step 2
Read the report: GPS location, camera and phone model, serial numbers, timestamps, editing software and AI-generation fingerprints, each flagged when it can identify you. If you only wanted to look, you can stop here.
- Step 3
To share it safely, download the clean copy. CapyStrip redraws the image, then re-scans its own output to prove nothing survived.
Every photo a phone takes carries a small file of facts about itself: where it was taken, on which device, and when. Post it as-is and anyone who downloads it can read that GPS position. CapyStrip shows you all of it before removing it.
It also reads the fingerprints AI image tools leave behind — Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI prompts in PNG text chunks, NovelAI recipes, IPTC digital-source declarations and C2PA content credentials.
The image is decoded and drawn onto a fresh canvas, which carries no metadata at all, then re-encoded. The photo's orientation is kept; everything else goes.
Questions
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. Reading and cleaning both happen in this browser tab. There is no upload route in the code, and the server never sees a pixel.
Can I just view a photo's EXIF data without changing it?
Yes. The full report appears as soon as you drop the photo, and nothing is changed or downloaded unless you choose to. It works as an EXIF viewer as much as a remover.
How do I see where a photo was taken?
Drop it in. If the photo carries GPS data, the report shows the coordinates and flags them as identifying. If there's no location in the report, the file doesn't contain one.
Does removing EXIF data remove the GPS location?
Yes. GPS coordinates are stored in the EXIF block, and the clean copy has no EXIF block at all — CapyStrip re-scans the output to confirm it.
Which formats can it clean?
JPEG and PNG come back in their own format, and WebP does too where the browser can encode it. AVIF is saved as PNG, and HEIC as JPEG, because browsers cannot encode those formats.
Can it clean HEIC photos from an iPhone?
It always reads a HEIC photo's full report. Downloading a clean copy needs a browser that can decode HEIC, which today is Safari; it is saved as JPEG.
What about TIFF files?
TIFF gets a complete report, but browsers cannot decode TIFF pixels, so there is no clean copy to download.
Does it reduce image quality?
PNG is lossless. JPEG and WebP are re-encoded, which is what removes the metadata, so expect a file that looks the same and is often smaller.