Stable
Metadata Stripper
Native Windows app for removing embedded metadata from photos, videos, audio files, and documents.
Overview
Metadata Stripper provides a focused local workflow for cleaning embedded metadata while keeping the original files safe by default. It uses ExifTool, FFmpeg, and FFprobe-backed processing paths to strip metadata from supported media and document formats, validate outputs, and produce clear reports for review.
Key features
- Remove embedded metadata from supported photos, videos, audio files, and documents
- Save cleaned files as new outputs by default
- Support batch metadata stripping workflows
- Use ExifTool for metadata-focused cleanup
- Use FFmpeg and FFprobe for supported media workflows
- Validate cleaned outputs where supported
- Generate clear reports for review
- Keep processing local to the machine
- Built as a native Windows desktop app
Technical details
Images use ExifTool conservative stripping. Most audio and many video containers prefer FFmpeg stream-copy remux. Hybrid MP4/MOV flows validate original source to final output when ffprobe is available. Default output writes a new file beside the source.