See whether your photo gives away where it was taken — then strip the GPS coordinates and every other hidden tag, on your device.
See whether your photo gives away where it was taken — then strip the GPS coordinates and every other hidden tag, on your device.
Photos taken on a phone usually record the exact GPS coordinates of where they were taken — often precise enough to identify a house. That location travels inside the file's EXIF metadata whenever the original is emailed, AirDropped, attached to a listing, or uploaded to a site that doesn't strip it. GhostImage reads the photo's metadata in your browser, shows you whether it contains a location (with a map link so you can see exactly where it points), and removes it along with the rest of the EXIF, XMP, and IPTC data: camera model, capture time, editing software, and author fields. No upload — checking a photo for location data by uploading it to someone else's server would defeat the purpose.
How it works
It opens in the GhostImage studio with the metadata X-ray pre-selected.
If the photo has GPS coordinates, you'll see them along with a map link, plus the camera, dates, and software tags — each graded by sensitivity.
One click re-encodes the photo with every metadata block removed. Share the clean copy.
Screenshots are different
Screenshots generally don't carry GPS, but they can show location in the picture itself — a map, an address, a street sign. Use Redact to black those out.
Check the whole file
The X-ray (ghostx.tools/x-ray) checks photos, PDFs, audio, and video for location and other hidden data in one scan.
Many large platforms strip EXIF from the public copy, but behavior varies and changes, and email attachments, file-sharing links, marketplaces, and messaging apps sending "original quality" often keep it. Stripping it yourself removes the guesswork.
Turn off location access for the Camera app in your phone's privacy settings. iOS also offers an option to exclude location from a photo when sharing it. Photos you've already taken still contain it.
No. The metadata is read and removed in your browser; the photo never leaves your device.
Yes — all EXIF, XMP, and IPTC metadata: camera and lens, timestamps, editing software, author and copyright fields. The picture itself is unchanged.
Where a photo’s location lives, what stripping removes, and how to check the result.
Strip metadata
Remove EXIF location, camera, and timestamp data before sharing.
Redact a screenshot
Black out emails, IDs, and names — auto-detected, burned into the pixels.
Watermark a photo
Burn in your name or a “copy” stamp — nine positions, any opacity.
HEIC to JPG
Convert iPhone photos to JPG — decoded locally, never uploaded.
Every GhostImage tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded — there's no upload endpoint to send it to.