Remove metadata from PNG images
Photos carry more than the picture: where they were taken, when, and on what. This removes all of it from your PNG files without touching the image itself.
- Nothing leaves your device
- No account, no email
- Free, and no watermark
Drop your files here
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Choose filesUp to 30 files at a time · 60 MB per file
What your photos are telling people
Open the properties of a photo from any recent phone and you will find more than you expected. The coordinates where it was taken, usually accurate to within a few metres. The date and time to the second. The make and model of the device, the lens, the focal length, the shutter speed. Often the software that edited it, and on some cameras a body serial number. None of that is visible in the picture, and all of it travels with the file.
The blunt way to get rid of it is to open the image in an editor and save a copy, and for PNG that is at least not destructive, since the format is lossless. It is still wasteful: the encoder rebuilds the entire image to change something that was never part of it. A PNG is a sequence of chunks, and the descriptive ones — text, embedded EXIF, a creation timestamp — are separate from the chunks holding pixels, palette and transparency. This tool drops the first group and copies the second across untouched.
How to remove metadata from a PNG
- Drop your PNG files into the box above, or click to pick them.
- Hit clean. The metadata blocks are removed and the image data is copied across untouched.
- Download the cleaned file. It will look identical, because it is.
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Frequently asked questions
Why does this matter?
A photo taken on a phone usually records exactly where it was taken, to within a few metres. Post it to a forum, send it to a buyer on a marketplace, or attach it to a listing, and you may be handing over your home address without realising. Most social networks strip this on upload — but a file you send directly, by email or messaging, keeps it.
What exactly gets removed?
Text chunks, which is where PNG keeps authorship, software names and free-form comments, plus any embedded EXIF block and the creation timestamp. The image data, palette and transparency are untouched.
Does cleaning change the image?
Not at all. This is not a re-encode: the compressed image data is copied across byte for byte, and only the metadata blocks are dropped. The result is pixel-identical to what you started with, just smaller.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly and the Canvas API. Your images are never sent over the network, never touch a server, and are dropped from memory as soon as you close the tab.
Is there a limit or a cost?
It is free and there is no account. The only limits are practical: 30 files at a time and 60 MB per file, so that the tab does not run out of memory on a phone.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, on iOS and Android. Large batches are slower on a phone because the decoding happens on the device, so stick to smaller groups if things feel sluggish.
PNG — Portable Network Graphics
PNG is lossless: what goes in comes back out pixel for pixel, no matter how many times you re-save it. Add a full alpha channel and you have the natural home for logos, screenshots, diagrams and anything with hard edges or text. The cost is weight — a photograph stored as PNG can be five times heavier than the same photo as JPG.
Other conversions
Same tool, different formats.