Danilo Fortunato

Strip EXIF/GPS, zero re-encoding

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Independent developer building small Windows tools that do one thing properly. MetaClean strips EXIF, GPS and PNG text at the byte level: no re-encoding, no quality loss, and a self-check in every release. I write about the byte-level details on dev.to.

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Photo MetaCleanStrip hidden EXIF & GPS, no re-encoding
Oct 2026

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Joined Product HuntOctober 1st, 2026

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1d ago

Photo MetaClean: EXIF/GPS removal at the byte level, no re-encoding

Launching Photo MetaClean on Product Hunt tomorrow (2 Oct), and I would rather start the technical conversation now.

The problem.

Most metadata strippers re-encode the image. That means a second generation of JPEG compression: you pay a quality loss you did not ask for, on pixels you were not trying to change.

The approach.

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1d ago

Photo MetaClean - Strip hidden EXIF & GPS, no re-encoding

Photo MetaClean strips hidden EXIF, GPS and PNG text metadata from images with byte-level removal. No re-encoding, so zero quality loss. Works on JPEG and PNG. Single Windows executable with self-check.