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.
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.
