Metadata Removal Tools

MAT2

MAT2 is free software, which allows the metadata to be removed from image, audio, torrent, and document file types. It provides both a command line tool and a graphical user interface via an extension for Nautilus, the default file manager of GNOME, and Dolphin, the default file manager of KDE.

For Linux users, a third party graphical tool Metadata Cleaner powered by MAT2 exists and is available on Flathub.

ExifCleaner

ExifCleaner is a freeware, open source graphical app that uses ExifTool to remove EXIF metadata from images, videos, and PDF documents using a simple drag and drop interface. It supports multi-core batch processing and dark mode.

Scrambled Exif

Scrambled Exif is a metadata removal tool for Android. It can remove EXIF data for many file formats and has been translated into many languages.

Imagepipe

Imagepipe is a a paint app for Android that can be used to redact photos and also delete EXIF metadata. It has been translated into many languages.

Note

Imagepipe is only available from F-Droid and not in Google Play. If you’re looking for a paint app in Google Play we suggest Pocket Paint.

Exiftool

Exiftool is the original perl library and command-line application for reading, writing, and editing meta information (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and more) in a wide variety of file formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PDF, RAW, and more).

It’s often a component of other EXIF removal applications and is in most Linux distribution repositories.

To delete data from a directory of files:

exiftool -all= *.file_extension