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Remove metadata from a video

Drop a video to see what its file reveals — where it was filmed, on which phone, and when — then strip all of it in one click. The picture and sound are not re-encoded. Free, in your browser: the video never leaves your device.

100% local — the video never leaves your device.

How it works

  1. Drop or pick a video — from your phone, a camera, a dashcam, or a file someone sent you.

  2. See what the file reveals: GPS location, phone or camera model, software and recording time. Everything is read on your device.

  3. Remove all of it in one click and download the clean copy in the same format. The picture and sound are copied as they are, not re-encoded.

What a video gives away

Phones and cameras write a record of every clip into the file. It travels with the video wherever the file goes:

  • Where it was filmed

    iPhones and many Android phones store GPS coordinates in every clip. A video filmed at home and sent as a file points to your door.

  • Which phone filmed it

    Make, model and software version — enough to tell clips from the same phone apart from everyone else's.

  • When it was filmed

    The exact recording date and time, with the time zone, even if the video is shared months later.

  • What else is in the file

    Titles, comments, editing software and custom tags apps leave behind, which you never see in a player.

Some platforms strip metadata when you upload; many ways of sending a video do not. A file sent as a document in a messenger, attached to an email or shared from a cloud drive usually arrives with everything intact.

What is removed, and what is kept

Removed: every metadata tag in the file — location, device make and model, software, recording date, title, comments, cover art and any custom tag, in both the Apple and the classic QuickTime formats. The new file is then read again, and it is only offered if no tag is left.

Kept: the picture and sound, copied packet for packet with no quality loss, and the rotation. Text burned into the picture itself — a dashcam's date stamp, a watermark — is part of the image and is not touched; blur it out instead.

Nothing is uploaded

The video is read and rewritten by code running in this tab. There is no server it is sent to, and because nothing is re-encoded, even a large clip is cleaned in seconds.

Faces in the clip too? Blur the faces in the video — its MP4 carries no metadata either.

Just a photo? Remove metadata from a photo.

Share your screen, not your data

The DataBlur extension blurs emails, names and numbers on the live page before a screen share or recording picks them up.

FAQ

Information stored in the video file besides the picture and sound: often the GPS location where it was filmed, the phone or camera model, the software and the recording date and time. Players do not show it, but anyone with the file can read it.

No. The picture and sound are copied exactly as they are — nothing is re-encoded — so the clean file looks and sounds the same.

Drop the video here and press Remove all metadata: Apple's location, make, model and date tags are all removed. On the iPhone itself, Photos lets you turn location off when sharing, but that applies only to that share, not to a file you send in other ways.

Many do on upload, but not every platform and not every way of sending. Messengers that send a video as a document, email attachments and cloud links usually keep everything.

No. A date or speed burned into the picture, as many dashcams do, is part of the image, not metadata. Use the video blur tool, or crop it out.

MP4, MOV (including iPhone HEVC video), WebM and MKV, up to 1 GB. The clean file keeps the same format.