Metadata Cleaner: Photo/Video

Privacy policy

Last updated: 2026-11-03 · applies to version 1.1 and later

Policy versions: 1.1 and later (this text) · version 1.0 (still the policy of the app version 1.0). The version number of your app is shown at the bottom of its Settings screen.

Free Metadata Cleaner shows and removes the metadata hidden in your photos and videos (location, date and time, camera and lens details, thumbnails…). The short version: everything happens on your device, and we collect nothing.

What the app accesses

Your photo and video library, only after you grant permission (and, where your system requires it, the permission to read the location stored in your photos, so that it can be shown to you). The files you choose are read and cleaned on your device; the cleaned copy is saved to your library. If you choose to replace the originals, the system asks you to confirm before deleting them.

To show which photos are already clean, the app reads the metadata of the photos displayed on screen, on your device. This result is kept in memory only and is never stored.

What we collect

Nothing. No account, no analytics or usage tracking, no advertising or advertising identifiers, no crash or diagnostics reporting beyond what the app stores provide, and no third-party SDK that sends data anywhere. There is no Free Metadata Cleaner server. Cleaning a photo or video never uses the network, at all: turn on airplane mode and clean one to check for yourself. The only network request the app itself can ever make is described under “Location” below, and it only ever happens if you ask for it. The one other connection is the optional tip purchase, handled by the store (see “Optional support”).

Temporary files and history

The app keeps no history and no database. Temporary files created while cleaning are deleted after each item and purged when the app starts.

Deleted originals

Originals that are deleted remain in your system's trash (such as “Recently Deleted” or the trash) for about 30 days, with their metadata. The app cannot empty it: do it yourself if you need the originals gone at once.

iCloud and cloud photos

If a photo is stored in iCloud and not on your device, the operating system may download it before the app can process it. That transfer is made by the system, under the provider's own terms, not by the app.

Location

When a photo contains a location, the app shows the coordinates as text, which stays on your device. Three actions can send location information off your device, only when you choose them, each time: “Open in…” hands the coordinates to the maps application you select, under its own privacy policy; “Show the map” asks you to confirm first (“Showing the map sends this photo's position to a map service. Nothing else is sent.”), then loads a small map from OpenStreetMap for that one position; and, when you edit a photo's place, “Choose on the map” asks you to confirm first, then opens a full-screen map from OpenStreetMap. This map does not use your phone's location. As you move and zoom it, the app requests the map tiles of the area you are browsing, so OpenStreetMap receives the position of the area shown on screen, which starts on the photo's current place if it has one, and otherwise on a world view. The photo itself is never sent, and nothing is sent before you confirm. The place you choose on the map (or copy from another photo) is written into the photo's file only when you save, on your device. In every case OpenStreetMap receives, as with any web request, technical details like your IP address; it does not receive your name, an account, or anything else about you or your other photos. See OpenStreetMap's own privacy policy. Outside of these explicit actions, the app never sends a photo's location, or anything else, anywhere.

Optional support

The app is free. If you wish, you can leave a tip. On iPhone and in the Google Play version for Android, tips are in-app purchases processed by Apple or Google under their own terms and privacy policy; the app adds the Google Play billing permission for this, makes no network call itself, and receives no payment or personal details. Versions installed outside Google Play may instead open an external donation page in your browser, operated by a third party under its own privacy policy; nothing from the app is sent to it. A tip unlocks nothing.

Contact form on this website

If you write to us through this site, we use your message and the email address you optionally give only to reply. Bot protection is provided by Cloudflare and email delivery by Resend.

Language choice on this website

When you choose a language, or when this site opens a page in your browser's language, it stores one small functional cookie (pxl, a language code, one year) so that your choice is remembered. If this site suggests a page in your browser's language and you close that suggestion, your browser also keeps a local note (pxl-banner-off, in local storage, 30 days) so the suggestion does not come back. Neither identifies anyone, neither is used for tracking or advertising, and neither is shared. You can delete them in your browser at any time.

Website statistics

This website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits (pages viewed, country, browser type, loading speed). It sets no cookie, does not use local storage, does not fingerprint your device, does not follow you across sites and does not build a profile of you. Search engines (for example Google Search Console) give us aggregated search statistics, without any data about individual visitors. Our own web server also counts the pages it serves: for each page it keeps the page address, the site or social network that sent you (only its name, or the campaign tag written in the link), the country, the type of device and whether the request came from a robot. It keeps no IP address, no identifier and no cookie, and these counts are anonymous. We use no advertising or other analytics service. None of this concerns the app itself, which collects nothing.

Children

The app is a general-purpose tool and is not directed at children.

Changes

An updated policy will be published at this URL with a new date above.

Contact

Questions about privacy: metadata-cleaner-contact@pixeon.net

Privacy policy, version 1.0

Applies to version 1.0 of the app (the first release). Later versions: current policy.

Free Metadata Cleaner shows and removes the metadata hidden in your photos and videos (location, date and time, camera and lens details, thumbnails…). The short version: everything happens on your device, and we collect nothing.

What the app accesses

Your photo and video library, only after you grant permission (and, where your system requires it, the permission to read the location stored in your photos, so that it can be shown to you). The files you choose are read and cleaned on your device; the cleaned copy is saved to your library. If you choose to replace the originals, the system asks you to confirm before deleting them.

To show which photos are already clean, the app reads the metadata of the photos displayed on screen, on your device. This result is kept in memory only and is never stored.

What we collect

Nothing. No account, no analytics or usage tracking, no advertising or advertising identifiers, no crash or diagnostics reporting beyond what the app stores provide, and no third-party SDK that sends data anywhere. There is no Free Metadata Cleaner server. Cleaning a photo or video never uses the network, at all: turn on airplane mode and clean one to check for yourself. The only network request the app itself can ever make is described under “Location” below, and it only ever happens if you ask for it. The one other connection is the optional tip purchase, handled by the store (see “Optional support”).

Temporary files and history

The app keeps no history and no database. Temporary files created while cleaning are deleted after each item and purged when the app starts.

Deleted originals

Originals that are deleted remain in your system's trash (such as “Recently Deleted” or the trash) for about 30 days, with their metadata. The app cannot empty it: do it yourself if you need the originals gone at once.

iCloud and cloud photos

If a photo is stored in iCloud and not on your device, the operating system may download it before the app can process it. That transfer is made by the system, under the provider's own terms, not by the app.

Location

When a photo contains a location, the app shows the coordinates as text, which stays on your device. Two actions send that one photo's position off your device, only when you choose them, each time: “Open in…” hands the coordinates to the maps application you select, under its own privacy policy; “Show the map” asks you to confirm first (“Showing the map sends this photo's position to a map service. Nothing else is sent.”), then loads a small map from OpenStreetMap for that one position. OpenStreetMap receives the coordinates and, as with any web request, technical details like your IP address; it does not receive your name, an account, or anything else about you or your other photos. See OpenStreetMap's own privacy policy. Outside of these two explicit actions, the app never sends a photo's location, or anything else, anywhere.

Optional support

The app is free. If you wish, you can leave a tip. On iPhone and in the Google Play version for Android, tips are in-app purchases processed by Apple or Google under their own terms and privacy policy; the app adds the Google Play billing permission for this, makes no network call itself, and receives no payment or personal details. Versions installed outside Google Play may instead open an external donation page in your browser, operated by a third party under its own privacy policy; nothing from the app is sent to it. A tip unlocks nothing.

Contact form on this website

If you write to us through this site, we use your message and the email address you optionally give only to reply. Bot protection is provided by Cloudflare and email delivery by Resend.

Language choice on this website

When you choose a language, or when this site opens a page in your browser's language, it stores one small functional cookie (pxl, a language code, one year) so that your choice is remembered. If this site suggests a page in your browser's language and you close that suggestion, your browser also keeps a local note (pxl-banner-off, in local storage, 30 days) so the suggestion does not come back. Neither identifies anyone, neither is used for tracking or advertising, and neither is shared. You can delete them in your browser at any time.

Website statistics

This website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits (pages viewed, country, browser type, loading speed). It sets no cookie, does not use local storage, does not fingerprint your device, does not follow you across sites and does not build a profile of you. Search engines (for example Google Search Console) give us aggregated search statistics, without any data about individual visitors. Our own web server also counts the pages it serves: for each page it keeps the page address, the site or social network that sent you (only its name, or the campaign tag written in the link), the country, the type of device and whether the request came from a robot. It keeps no IP address, no identifier and no cookie, and these counts are anonymous. We use no advertising or other analytics service. None of this concerns the app itself, which collects nothing.

Children

The app is a general-purpose tool and is not directed at children.

Changes

An updated policy will be published at this URL with a new date above.

Contact

Questions about privacy: metadata-cleaner-contact@pixeon.net