Inspect, edit, and safely remove hidden metadata (EXIF, IPTC, location) from images, PDFs, audio, video, and office documents. Everything happens instantly in your browser. No uploads. No servers. No traces.
Understand how client-side privacy, lossless processing, and metadata sanitization work.
No, your files are never uploaded anywhere. Unlike most online metadata tools that send files to a remote server, OwnYourFiles processes everything locally in your browser using WebAssembly. Whether you are stripping EXIF data, removing GPS coordinates, or editing metadata tags, it all happens on your device. Your photos, documents, and videos stay on your machine the entire time.
Not at all. For images and PDFs, only the metadata headers are removed while the actual image data stays completely untouched. For audio and video, FFmpeg copies the audio and video streams exactly as they are without re-encoding anything. The file you get back is identical in quality to what you started with.
Images (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp, .heic, .raw), PDF Documents (.pdf), Microsoft Office files (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx), Video files (.mp4, .mov, .mkv, .avi, .webm), and Audio files (.mp3, .wav, .flac, .m4a, .ogg). Each format is handled by a different tool running in your browser: ExifTool for images, pdf-lib for PDFs, JSZip for Office files, and FFmpeg for audio and video.
No. Once you download the cleaned file, the GPS coordinates, EXIF records, camera serial numbers, author names, and revision history are gone for good. There is no undo, no hidden copy stored anywhere, and no way to get the original metadata back.
Upload your photo to OwnYourFiles and choose "Remove Location Data Only". The tool will strip all GPS tags from your image while keeping camera settings and other EXIF data intact. On both iPhone and Android, the camera app automatically embeds your exact GPS coordinates into every photo by default. To stop future photos from being geotagged, open your phone's Settings, find the Camera app permissions, and turn off location access.
Yes. Once the page loads, everything runs locally in your browser. You can disconnect from the internet and carry on inspecting, editing, or stripping metadata without any issues. The processing tools are saved in your browser after the first visit, so no internet connection is needed after that.