Remove video metadata before you share
Erase the GPS coordinates, the device name and the recording date from an MP4 or MOV — with no re-encoding, no quality loss and no upload.
Drop videos to remove their metadata
Location, device and tags are erased. The video is never re-encoded — quality is untouched.
Clear a video's metadata on the phone itself
ExifHub does the same work inside your camera roll, entirely on the device.
What a video gives away
A clip filmed on a phone usually carries the exact coordinates where recording started, the make and model of the device, and the moment it happened, down to the second and the time zone. None of that is visible when you play the file. All of it is readable by anyone who receives it.
Large platforms tend to strip this on upload, which is why people assume it is not a problem. But a video sent directly, by email, in a cloud folder, over AirDrop, attached to a listing or a claim, arrives with everything intact.
Why nothing is re-encoded
Most tools that offer to clean a video quietly run it through a re-encode. That costs minutes of processing, throws away picture quality, and changes the file size, for a job that should touch only a few hundred bytes.
This one edits the header in place. The metadata boxes are converted into free space, a box type the format explicitly defines as ignorable, and their contents are zeroed. Because the file keeps its exact length, every internal offset remains valid and the video plays identically everywhere it did before. Your frames are the frames the camera recorded.
The recording date is optional
Timestamps sit inside structural headers rather than in a metadata box, so they are cleared separately, which is why it is a checkbox. Removing them is right for anything you are publishing anonymously. Keeping them is right when the date is the point: insurance footage, site documentation, or anything that may need to stand as evidence.
There is a third case, and it is the common one: the date is wrong rather than unwanted, because the camera clock was never set or was left in the previous time zone. Erasing it there loses information you actually want. Changing the video date corrects it instead, and can move a whole shoot by the same number of hours in one pass.
To see exactly what a file holds before and after, run it through the video metadata viewer.
Frequently asked questions
Does removing metadata reduce video quality?
No, and it cannot. The footage is never decoded or re-compressed. Only the small descriptive header is rewritten, so every frame comes out byte-for-byte identical to the original and the file size stays exactly the same.
How is the metadata removed without breaking the file?
Deleting the boxes outright would shift everything after them and invalidate the sample offset tables that tell a player where each frame begins. Instead the metadata boxes are renamed to 'free', a box type the format defines as skippable, and their contents are overwritten with zeroes. The length never changes, every offset stays correct, and the old values are genuinely gone rather than merely unreferenced.
What exactly gets removed?
The GPS coordinates, the device make and model, the encoding software, and any title or comment tags. Turning on the date option additionally zeroes the creation and modification times in the movie, track and media headers. Duration, resolution, codec and rotation are kept, because a player needs them to show the video correctly.
How do I know it actually worked?
The tool reads its own output back. The tag count shown beside each file is measured by re-parsing the cleaned result, not assumed from what was requested — so a zero on the right is a verified zero. You can also drop the downloaded file into the video metadata viewer to confirm independently.
Can it handle very large files?
Yes. Only the header is loaded and modified; the picture data is carried straight through as a reference to the file on disk. Multi-gigabyte recordings are cleaned without the browser ever allocating memory for them.