Scrub: EXIF Metadata Remover

Every photo you take carries hidden data: the exact GPS location, your camera's serial number, when it was taken, which app edited it. Most apps that share photos strip none of it.

Scrub removes it. Pick a photo, see exactly what is hidden inside, remove it, and save a clean copy. Your original is never modified, and the result screen tells you plainly what was found and what was removed.

WHAT SCRUB REMOVES

- GPS coordinates and location tags

- Camera make, model, lens, and serial number

- Capture and modification timestamps

- Editing software and device identifiers

- Embedded thumbnails, which can leak the photo as it looked before you cropped it

- XMP, IPTC, and JFIF comment blocks

- PNG text chunks, including vendor-specific ones

SEE BEFORE AND AFTER

Scrub shows every field it found before you strip anything, in plain language rather than raw tag names like DateTimeOriginal or FNumber. After stripping, it re-reads the new file and reports what remains. If anything survived, it says so instead of claiming the photo is clean.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE

Photos are read, changed in memory, and written back as a new file on your phone. There is no upload, no account, no sync, and no analytics. The only network use is validating a Pro purchase. Before Android asks for photo access, Scrub explains what it reads and why, including why it needs the location permission to see and remove a GPS tag.

FREE

- Full metadata viewer, before and after

- One-tap Strip All for JPEG and PNG

- Lossless for JPEG: no re-encoding, so quality never degrades

- Save to your gallery or to a private folder

- Share the cleaned copy anywhere

- Receive photos shared from other apps

PRO ($2.99, one time)

- Selective Strip: keep specific fields, any combination

- Edit Metadata: replace GPS, timestamps, or camera details with values you choose

- Batch: clean up to 50 photos at once

- HEIC, WebP, and TIFF support

- Video support: MP4, M4V, MOV, QT, with no re-encoding and no quality loss

- Deep Scrub: color profile and orientation, kept by default

- Export a detailed privacy report

- Default keep-fields saved across sessions

Pro features are marked before you tap them, so nothing opens an unannounced paywall.

Pay once. No subscription.

WHO SCRUB IS FOR

Anyone selling items online who does not want a listing photo to carry their home GPS coordinates. Anyone posting to social media, forums, or marketplaces. Journalists and researchers sharing images that must not identify a device. Anyone who wants metadata gone before a photo leaves their phone.

Scrub is available in 20 languages, with full support for right-to-left layout and large text sizes.

Support: support@kurokistudio.com

Kuroki Studio builds small paid apps that respect your privacy.