ExifCleaner — an Ultimate Exif Tag Remover

Overview

ExifCleaner is handy software for removing individual Exif tags or stripping Exif data entirely. This protects your privacy, helps you to hide unneeded, undesirable or sometimes sensitive information — about the image, photographer and location. Did you know that every photo produced with a digital camera contains it? Cleaning metainformation saves disk space and server bandwidth, reduces download times, it’s especially evident on small-sized or large number of images. Exif cleaner can also be useful for photo professionals, to get rid of the XMP, IPTC, ICC profile, Adobe APP14 segment, JPEG comments as well as Exif metatada in photomontage works.

Key Features

Here is the list of key features that make your work with ExifCleaner productive:

• Handles the Adobe XMP, IPTC (including the whole Photoshop IRB), ICC profile, Adobe APP14 segment, JPEG comments as well as Exif metadata.
• The program can work in a batch mode.
• It can be integrated into the Windows Explorer shell for quick access to its major functions.
• ExifCleaner doesn’t alter actual image data — all operations are lossless for a picture.
• Handy viewing of Exif data before deletion. You can copy its strings to the clipboard.
• The portable version of ExifCleaner is available.
• It doesn’t leave any unnecessary records, like some other image editors and converters do

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Download Free Trial

You can download an evaluation version of ExifCleaner and try it for 30 days.

Mirrors for the installer of ExifCleaner (672 KB):
download from superutils.com
download from CNET
download from Simtel

Mirrors for the portable version of ExifCleaner (575 KB):
download from superutils.com
download from CNET

Ordering

ExifCleaner is Shareware. This means that it must be purchased before all benefits of the software will become available.

A single user license costs $14.95. It allows you to install ExifCleaner on 2 computers (e.g. on a laptop and a desktop) for usage by one person. Please follow this link to proceed to the order form:

If you need a custom license for more users or a site license for a company, please contact us and we’ll get back to you with an advantageous offer as soon as possible.

Upon registration you receive tech support via e-mail or support forums. In addition, all updates and new versions of ExifCleaner will be available for you for free and for lifetime.

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Version History

New features marked with a plus symbol (+), and improvements with an exclamation mark (!).

1.3.4 (June 1, 2010)
[!] Updated the internal graphics library.
[!] Fixed default sizes of the main form and all its elements.

1.3.3 (May 18, 2010)
[+] Added definition of the ‘Gamma’ ($A500) Exif tag.
[+] Opening of an image with a default associated viewer/editor on double-clicking a single item in the image list.
[+] A configurable option of opening an image on double clicking the image thumbnail. Thanks to John Leslie for the idea!
[+] A new extra option: Remove all JPEG comment (COM) markers, if any.
[+] Added an option on the Extras tab: Find and remove the ICC profile.
[+] Added an option for removing the Adobe APP14 segment.
[+] Buttons for quick selecting of all and of none additional metadata to remove.
[+] A new file option: Opening the destination folder when processing is finished. Thanks to Ashraf for the suggestion!
[!] Fixed an error when specifying bad output directory and a tab other than File Options is selected.
[!] Saving and restoring form dimensions, pane and column widths.
[!] Now you cannot close the Progress window when removing of Exif and of other metadata is in progress.

1.2 (February 25, 2010)
[+] Added an extra option for removing the XMP metadata.
[+] Added an option for removing IPTC if it presents in the file.
[+] Now you can copy selected Exif strings to the clipboard via the context menu or using the Ctrl+C command.
[!] Fixed detection of the shell extension on x64 systems.
[!] Fixed displaying the image icons on some Windows versions.
[!] Some minor enhancements.

1.1 (January 7, 2010)
[+] Added context menu for the image list.
[+] Shell integration with x64 Windows systems.
[!] Handling of directories on drag & drop into the image list.
[!] Handling of the whole directories on passing them as command line parameters.
[!] Displaying Exif contents for already processed images.
[!] Now filenames in the list change to final after cleaning Exif data.
[!] Redesigned the Clean Setup dialog window. Now it has two tabs (Clean Options and File Options) instead of one with two groups. This allowed to make the tag selection tree more high and convenient.

1.0 (September 24, 2009)
First public release of ExifCleaner.

Awards

The first version of our Exif tag remover was released not a long time ago, and therefore the product is currently in a state of collecting awards. Here some of them: