How many images can I do at once?

There is no hard cap. Metadata removal is far cheaper than compression because nothing is decoded, so a few hundred files is comfortable on a laptop. The practical limit is how much memory holding that many files at once takes.

Do screenshots and downloaded images have metadata too?

Often, and not the kind people expect. A screenshot rarely carries GPS, but plenty of tools write their own name into a text chunk, and an image saved from a site can arrive carrying whatever that site's pipeline attached. The listing tells you per file rather than making you guess.

Does this reduce the file size?

A little, and only by however many bytes the metadata took. That is usually a few kilobytes, occasionally more when a large embedded thumbnail or a C2PA manifest is involved. If you came here to make files smaller, the image compressor is the tool that does that.

Can I check what was in a file without deleting anything?

Yes. Adding a file lists what it found straight away, and nothing is removed until you press the button. Reading is the default and deleting is the deliberate act.

Do all the images in a batch have to be the same format?

No. A folder of mixed PNGs, JPEGs and WebPs goes through in one pass, and each file is taken apart by the rules of its own container. That matters more than it sounds, because EXIF lives in a different place in each of the three and a tool written around JPEG alone will quietly report a PNG as clean when it is not. Files in a format that is not handled are counted and skipped, and the note afterwards says how many.

Is there any point running this on images I made myself?

Usually yes, because most of what ends up in a file was not put there by you. An editor writes its own name and version, a phone writes the camera and often the location, an export pipeline can attach a signed manifest, and a downloaded asset arrives carrying whatever the site that served it attached. The listing is the honest answer for any particular file: add one and see, rather than assuming either way.

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Remove metadata from image

Built for the case where you are about to post a batch of images and would rather they said nothing about you.

Found

What this looks for

Add a PNG, JPEG or WebP and every metadata block in it is listed here by name and byte count, before anything is removed. It looks for EXIF, XMP, IPTC and Photoshop resource blocks, free-text comments, modification timestamps, and C2PA Content Credentials. The colour profile is left alone on purpose, because deleting it changes how the image looks and it says nothing about you.

A watermark encoded into the pixels themselves, such as SynthID, is a different mechanism and is not something this or any metadata tool can remove.

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Mechanism

What removing metadata from an image actually deletes

Files go through a queue and each one is rebuilt from its own surviving blocks, so a PNG and a JPEG in the same batch each get handled by the rules of their own format. Results are written back into the slot the file arrived in, which means the output order matches the order you dropped things in whatever order they finished. When the queue drains, several results pack into one zip, stored rather than deflated since image data is already compressed.

Limits

What it cannot do

Pixel-domain watermarks are out of reach. If an image carries a SynthID-class signal encoded into the picture itself, stripping metadata leaves it exactly where it was.
Duplicate filenames get renumbered inside the zip so nothing is silently overwritten, which means the names you get out may not be the names you put in.
Anything that is not PNG, JPEG or WebP is skipped and counted rather than mangled. The note afterwards says how many were left out.

Questions

Questions people actually ask

How many images can I do at once?: There is no hard cap. Metadata removal is far cheaper than compression because nothing is decoded, so a few hundred files is comfortable on a laptop. The practical limit is how much memory holding that many files at once takes.
Do screenshots and downloaded images have metadata too?: Often, and not the kind people expect. A screenshot rarely carries GPS, but plenty of tools write their own name into a text chunk, and an image saved from a site can arrive carrying whatever that site's pipeline attached. The listing tells you per file rather than making you guess.
Does this reduce the file size?: A little, and only by however many bytes the metadata took. That is usually a few kilobytes, occasionally more when a large embedded thumbnail or a C2PA manifest is involved. If you came here to make files smaller, the image compressor is the tool that does that.
Can I check what was in a file without deleting anything?: Yes. Adding a file lists what it found straight away, and nothing is removed until you press the button. Reading is the default and deleting is the deliberate act.
Do all the images in a batch have to be the same format?: No. A folder of mixed PNGs, JPEGs and WebPs goes through in one pass, and each file is taken apart by the rules of its own container. That matters more than it sounds, because EXIF lives in a different place in each of the three and a tool written around JPEG alone will quietly report a PNG as clean when it is not. Files in a format that is not handled are counted and skipped, and the note afterwards says how many.
Is there any point running this on images I made myself?: Usually yes, because most of what ends up in a file was not put there by you. An editor writes its own name and version, a phone writes the camera and often the location, an export pipeline can attach a signed manifest, and a downloaded asset arrives carrying whatever the site that served it attached. The listing is the honest answer for any particular file: add one and see, rather than assuming either way.