Scan any file free and strip what it carries, in your browser. Photos, video, PDF, Word, audio, text.
Videos save best in Safari or Chrome.
Drop a file here, or click to choose
Any of the formats below, up to 500 MB each
| Group | Formats | What is found and removed |
|---|---|---|
| Images | JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG, HEIC, AVIF | EXIF, XMP, IPTC, C2PA, prompt chunks, GPS |
| Video | MP4, MOV, M4V | udta, XMP_, C2PA boxes, device and software fields |
| Audio | MP3, WAV, FLAC (Ogg: scan only) | ID3v1 and v2, APEv2, Lyrics3, LIST INFO, iXML, bext, Vorbis comments |
| Documents | DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, EPUB, PDF | Author, company, editing time, rsid session IDs, comment authors, Info dictionary, XMP, document IDs |
| Web and text | HTML, Markdown, TXT, pasted text | Generator meta tags, comments, invisible Unicode, look-alike letters, typographic punctuation in pasted text |
| Compared | StripShot Everything | Typical online cleaner |
|---|---|---|
| Where the work happens | In your browser tab, every format | Free scan in the browser, the strip on their server |
| Your file | Never leaves the device | Uploaded, often stored |
| Quality | Container edit, nothing re-encoded | Frequently re-encoded to remove metadata |
| Text | Deterministic character cleaning, shows tells, never sent to a model | Sends text to a model to paraphrase it |
| Proof | Re-scan after every strip plus a JSON report | A success message |
| Formats | Images, video, audio, Office, PDF, EPUB, SVG, HTML, text | Usually images, sometimes PDF |
Author, company, editing time, session IDs, comment authors.
Info dictionary, XMP stream, document IDs.
Zero-width characters, hidden Unicode and ChatGPT tells.
The original JPEG, PNG and WebP stripper.
MP4 and MOV container cleaning.
No. Every engine on this page takes bytes in and returns bytes out inside your browser tab. StripShot has no server route that receives file contents. Close the tab and the files are gone.
No. Images, video and audio are edited at the container level; pixels, frames and samples are untouched. Office files are unzipped and rezipped. PDFs are re-serialized, not re-rendered. If a format cannot be cleaned without re-encoding, the tool reports it and leaves the file alone.
Scans are free and unlimited. Strips share the same small daily free quota as the photo tool, except video, which is 1 free every 30 days. Pro and Full Access are unlimited and add batch: drop a whole folder, strip everything in one click and download the clean set as a zip with a JSON report.
Every strip is followed by a re-scan of the output. The findings that are gone are struck through, and anything left is listed by name. The JSON report records both.
Only the few its words need, such as soft hyphens between letters or marks on right-to-left lines. The scan lists them as kept.
It cannot remove pixel watermarks such as SynthID from images or video, inaudible watermarks from audio, or statistical token watermarks from text. Those live in the content, not the metadata, and StripShot says so rather than pretending otherwise.
Text cleaning adapted from the MIT-licensed watermarks-remover project by Guillaume Meyer. Everything else is StripShot's own engine.
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Last updated November 1, 2026.