isc-labs/exifcleaner

Cross-platform desktop app to clean image metadata

ExifCleaner

Desktop app to clean metadata from images, videos, PDFs, and other files.

Benefits

• Fast
• Drag & Drop
• Free and open source (MIT)
• Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Supports popular image formats such as PNG, JPG, GIF, and TIFF
• Supports popular video formats such as M4A, MOV, and MP4
• Supports PDF documents
• Batch-processing
• Multi-core support
• Dark mode (automatic)
• No automatic updates or network traffic

Downsides

• Executable size ~190MB (Electron app)
• Memory usage ~120MB (Electron app)

Install

Linux, macOS 10.10+, and Windows 7+ are supported (64-bit only).

• Linux: Download the .AppImage or .deb file
• macOS: Download the .dmg file
• Windows: Download the .exe file

For Linux, The AppImage needs to be made executable after download.

Links

• Official Website
• Source Code
• Issue Tracker

Supported File Types

Below is a full list of supported file types that ExifCleaner will remove metadata for. It's based on which file types ExifTool supports write operations for.

• 3G2, 3GP2 – 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 a/v (QuickTime-based)
• 3GP, 3GPP – 3rd Gen. Partnership Project a/v (QuickTime-based)
• AAX – Audible Enhanced Audiobook (QuickTime-based)
• AI, AIT – Adobe Illustrator [Template] (PS or PDF)
• ARQ – Sony Alpha Pixel-Shift RAW (TIFF-based)
• ARW – Sony Alpha RAW (TIFF-based)
• AVIF – AV1 Image File Format (QuickTime-based)
• CR2 – Canon RAW 2 (TIFF-based) (CR2 spec)
• CR3 – Canon RAW 3 (QuickTime-based) (CR3 spec)
• CRM – Canon RAW Movie (QuickTime-based)
• CRW, CIFF – Canon RAW Camera Image File Format (CRW spec)
• CS1 – Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot RAW (PSD-based)
• DCP DNG – Camera Profile (DNG-like)
• DNG – Digital Negative (TIFF-based)
• DR4 – Canon DPP version 4 Recipe
• DVB – Digital Video Broadcasting (QuickTime-based)
• EPS, EPSF, PS – [Encapsulated] PostScript Format
• ERF – Epson RAW Format (TIFF-based)
• EXIF – Exchangeable Image File Format metadata (TIFF-based)
• EXV – Exiv2 metadata file (JPEG-based)
• F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V – Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video (QuickTime-based)
• FFF – Hasselblad Flexible File Format (TIFF-based)
• FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
• GIF – Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
• GPR – GoPro RAW (DNG-based)
• HDP, WDP, JXR – Windows HD Photo / Media Photo / JPEG XR (TIFF-based)
• HEIC, HEIF – High Efficiency Image Format (QuickTime-based)
• ICC, ICM – International Color Consortium color profile
• IIQ – Phase One Intelligent Image Quality RAW (TIFF-based)
• IND, INDD, INDT – Adobe InDesign Document/Template
• INSP – Insta360 Picture (JPEG-based)
• JP2, JPF, JPM, JPX – JPEG 2000 image [Compound/Extended]
• JPEG, JPG, JPE – Joint Photographic Experts Group image
• LRV – Low-Resolution Video (QuickTime-based)
• M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V – MPEG-4 Audio/Video (QuickTime-based)
• MEF – Mamiya (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based)
• MIE – Meta Information Encapsulation (MIE specification)
• MOS – Creo Leaf Mosaic (TIFF-based)
• MOV, QT – Apple QuickTime Movie
• MP4 – Motion Picture Experts Group version 4 (QuickTime-based)
• MPO – Extended Multi-Picture format (JPEG with MPF extensions)
• MQV – Sony Mobile QuickTime Video
• NEF – Nikon (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based)
• NRW – Nikon RAW (2) (TIFF-based)
• ORF – Olympus RAW Format (TIFF-based)
• PDF – Adobe Portable Document Format
• PEF – Pentax (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based)
• PNG, JNG, MNG – Portable/JPEG/Multiple-image Network Graphics
• PPM, PBM, PGM – Portable Pixel/Bit/Gray Map
• PSD, PSB, PSDT – PhotoShop Document / Large Document / Template
• QTIF, QTI, QIF – QuickTime Image File
• RAF – FujiFilm RAW Format
• RAW – Panasonic RAW (TIFF-based)
• RW2 – Panasonic RAW 2 (TIFF-based)
• RWL – Leica RAW (TIFF-based)
• SR2 – Sony RAW 2 (TIFF-based)
• SRW – Samsung RAW format (TIFF-based)
• THM – Thumbnail image (JPEG)
• TIFF, TIF – Tagged Image File Format
• VRD – Canon DPP Recipe Data
• X3F – Sigma/Foveon RAW
• XMP – Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file

Development

Built with Electron. Uses node-exiftool as a wrapper for Exiftool binaries.

Run the app in dev mode

Clone the repository and cd into the directory.

git clone https://github.com/szTheory/exifcleaner.git
cd exifcleaner

Next, install the NPM package dependencies.

yarn install

Finally, launch the application. This supports Hot Module Reload (HMR) so you will automatically see your changes every time you save a file.

yarn run dev

Contributing

This app is mostly feature complete. I want to keep it simple and not add a bunch of bloat to it. And I want to avoid release churn. That said, there are a couple small features that might be worth adding. And there are a few minor bugs or points of cleanup that would be worth polishing. If you'd like to help check out the Issue Tracker which contains an exhaustive list of known issues. Just pick one and submit a Pull Request or leave a comment and I can provide guidance or help if you need it. Make sure to test the app out to see if it still works though. There isn't much going on this app so it should be easy enough to do. I might add some automated tests later on to help with this. For now it's just been me working on the app so manual testing has worked out fine.

Publishing a new release

This section is really for my own reference when publishing a new release.

yarn run release
yarn run dist

Or instead of yarn run dist, after Travis finishes building your app, open the release draft it created and click "Publish".