Redact: Photo Metadata Remover

Your photos can reveal where you live. Every photo and video can carry the exact GPS location, the date and time, and your phone's make and model. Anyone you send the original file to can read it. Redact is a metadata remover and EXIF remover. It shows what a file reveals and strips it, entirely on your device. No account, no uploads and no ads. Who it's for • Selling online without giving away your home address • Sending photos to a date, a landlord or someone you just met • Sharing pictures of your kids, your home or your car • Journalists and activists, as one step in protecting a source • Emailing photos or sending them as files, which keeps every hidden detail See what a photo reveals with Scan • Every hidden field in a clear, searchable EXIF viewer • A Location badge marks anything that shows where it was taken Remove GPS, location and EXIF data with Clean • Clean up to 100 photos and videos at once • Removes GPS and geotags, device details and timestamps • Removes XMP, IPTC, comments and video tags • Removes hidden extras like preview images and Motion Photo clips • Keeps full quality: most photos are cleaned without recompressing • Optionally keep the date taken, location, camera settings or Motion Photo video • Tells you exactly what it removed • Your originals stay untouched unless you ask Redact to trash them Share safely from any app Share a photo or video to Redact from your gallery or any other app. It cleans the file and hands it straight back to the share sheet. Or share it to Scan with Redact to check it first. Convert formats and hide details • Convert HEIC to JPG, plus PNG and WebP images • Convert H.264, H.265, VP9 and AV1 video • Every converted file is stripped and checked • Censor pixelates, blacks out or blurs faces, plates and addresses Private by design • Everything runs on your phone, no internet needed • No ads, no analytics, no tracking and no account • Your photos, videos and personal information are never collected or shared • Open source under GPL-3.0, so anyone can read the code on GitHub • Works with the system file picker, so access to your whole library is optional • Optional crash reports stay off unless you turn them on Handy extras • Quick Settings tile and home screen shortcuts • Your own output folders and Keep Original File Names • Strict Clean • Hide Redact from screenshots and recents • Automatic clearing of copied metadata • Statistics counted only on your phone Pay once, keep it No subscription, no ads and no in-app purchases. Your purchase supports an independent developer. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Hindi and Arabic.

Censor now uses coarser blocks on large areas, so things like number plates stay unreadable. The introduction now points to Hide Content in Screenshots and Recents. Removed Secure Deletion Passes; files are still overwritten once before they are deleted. Safer Faster Video Cleaning and stricter checks on files shared into Redact. Fixed a false error when cancelling a share.