Redact: Photo Metadata Remover

DoubleAngels

About this app

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, and crops photos

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
• Optional update check runs only when you tap Check for Updates

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.

What’s new

New Crop tool in Censor to keep only part of a photo.
New Check for Updates button in Settings.
Strict Clean and shares now neutralize photo colour profiles, and Scan finds hidden Windows author and comment tags.
Fixed small videos failing to save when export stalled, and many reliability fixes.
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