See and remove the hidden data in your photos and videos (location, date, camera), entirely on your device. Nothing leaves your phone, and we collect nothing.
Last updated: 2026-09-21
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.
Your photo and video library, only after you grant permission (on
Android also 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 (on Android, in the folder
Pictures/Free Metadata Cleaner). 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.
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 can ever make is described under “Location” below, and it only ever happens if you ask for it.
The app keeps no history and no database. Temporary files created while cleaning are deleted after each item and purged when the app starts.
Originals that are deleted remain in your system's trash (“Recently Deleted” on iOS, the trash on Android) for about 30 days, with their metadata. The app cannot empty it: do it yourself if you need the originals gone at once.
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.
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.
The app is free. If you wish, a button opens an external donation page in your browser; that page is operated by a third party (Buy Me a Coffee) under its own privacy policy, and nothing from the app is sent to it. It unlocks nothing.
The app is a general-purpose tool and is not directed at children.
An updated policy will be published at this URL with a new date above.
Questions about privacy: metadata-cleaner-contact@pixeon.net
Last updated: 2026-09-21
Free Metadata Cleaner is a small independent app. Answers to the most common questions are below.
None. It keeps no history, has no account and no server. Details in the privacy policy.
To your photo library. On Android they are in the folder
Pictures/Free Metadata Cleaner. The library date of the original is kept, so a
cleaned photo does not jump to the top of your gallery.
Deleted originals stay in the system trash (“Recently Deleted” on iOS, the trash on Android) for about 30 days, with their metadata. Empty the trash to remove them immediately. If you decline the system's deletion prompt, the originals are kept and the cleaned copies are still added.
Photos in JPEG, HEIC, AVIF, PNG, WebP and GIF, and videos in MP4, MOV and 3GP (more formats are being added). A file the app cannot clean is left untouched and listed in the summary with the reason, without stopping the rest of the batch.
To list the photos you can choose from and to save the cleaned copies. On Android it also asks for the permission to read the location stored in photos: without it the system hides the location, so the app could not show you what a photo reveals. Nothing is uploaded.
Turn on airplane mode and clean a photo: it works the same. The only exception is the map: if you tap “Show the map” on a photo's location and confirm, that one position is sent to OpenStreetMap to display a map, and nothing else. See “Location” above.
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