Open photos to see every tag they carry — capture date, camera and lens, GPS position, software, rights — grouped and in plain words. Save them without the location, without any metadata, or with your own policy; JPEGs keep every pixel.
Reading, then deciding
The Metadata panel lists every tag the selected photo carries, grouped so the sensitive ones are easy to find: Location (coordinates, altitude, GPS time), Capture (dates, exposure), Camera (make, model, lens, serial numbers), Software and Rights. The queue's ledger counts the same things across every open file — how many carry a date, a camera, a GPS position — and a block this reader cannot parse is reported as unknown, never as “no GPS”.
Three buttons then write the files: without the location, without any metadata, or with the policy you set in the switches. For JPEGs all three are lossless — only the metadata segment changes.
Step by step
- Drop one photo or many. The Metadata panel is already open.
- Read the tags for the selected photo; the ledger above the queue counts them across all files.
- Press Save without location, Save without any metadata, or Save as JPG with my policy.
- Check each row's read-back line, or download the Tag report (CSV) for the whole set.
What “removed” means here
Removing the location drops the whole GPS directory and keeps everything else; removing all metadata drops the EXIF block, the embedded thumbnail and comments. The orientation is kept correct either way. Every written file is parsed again and the row prints what it really carries — capture date kept, camera kept, location removed — read from the saved bytes, not from what was intended.