pixelate.run

See and remove the metadata in a photo

Open a photo to see what it gives away: where it was taken, when, and with what. Then save a copy that is drawn from scratch, with no EXIF, GPS or any other hidden field. The photo never leaves your device.

Drop or paste an image herePress Ctrl+V (⌘V on a Mac), or click to choose a file.

What a photo can carry besides the picture. None of it is in the copy you save here.

How it works

  1. Open an imageChoose a file, drop it anywhere on the page, or paste it from the clipboard.
  2. See what it carriesLocation, date, camera and software are listed as soon as the photo opens. Faces and private text are pointed out in yellow but left alone; tap one if you want it covered as well.
  3. Save itDownload the copy, or share it straight from the page. It has no EXIF, GPS, XMP or IPTC data in it.

Questions

What exactly is removed?
Everything that is not the picture itself: EXIF fields such as GPS position, date, camera and lens, XMP and IPTC blocks, the embedded thumbnail and the colour profile.
Does saving change the picture?
It is encoded again: a JPEG is saved as a JPEG at high quality, anything else as a PNG. Colours are converted to standard sRGB. Photos larger than 16 megapixels are scaled down to that size.
Is my image uploaded?
No. Text recognition, the privacy model, face detection and code scanning all run inside this page. Its security policy only lets it talk to pixelate.run itself, and once the models are cached it works with the network switched off. If you choose fast cloud recognition instead of the on-device model, the text read from the image, and only that, is sent to pixelate.run, checked by an AI model on Cloudflare and not kept.
Can a pixelated number be recovered?
Not from an image made here. An ordinary mosaic or blur can sometimes be reversed by matching it against known fonts. Before text is pixelated or blurred, this tool shuffles the blocks at random, which leaves nothing to match. A solid block removes the pixels outright.
What about the location stored in my photo?
The saved image is drawn from scratch, so GPS position, camera model and every other piece of metadata stay behind.
Will it work on my phone?
Yes, in current versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Edge. The first image takes a few seconds longer while the recognition models download (about 11 MB); after that they load from your device.
Why does it download a large model on a computer?
To tell a name, a nickname or an address from ordinary words, it uses OpenAI Privacy Filter, an open model of about 917 MB that runs in the page like everything else. It downloads once, in the background while the patterns give a first answer, and then stays on your device. Phones and tablets use the patterns alone.

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