Scrambled Exif

juanitobananas

About this app

Scrambled Exif (pronounced eggsif) helps you remove the metadata in your pictures before you share them.

If you feel like it.

If you don't want the big Internet companies (or whomever) to know where your pictures were taken don't forget to remove the metadata from them before you share them.

To remove the metadata from a picture, simply share it like you'd normally do and choose Scrambled Exif. A moment later, the share 'dialog' will reappear. Now just share with the app you intended to share with in the first place.

Et voilà!

Required Android Permissions:

★ READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to read the images other apps share with it.

Source Code

★ This app is open source. You can take a look at the code (and contribute if you feel like it) here:

https://gitlab.com/juanitobananas/scrambled-exif

Translations

If you wish to help to translate this app to your own language, you can do so by translating these two projects using transifex:
https://explore.transifex.com/juanitobananas/scrambled-exif/ and https://explore.transifex.com/juanitobananas/libcommon/.

Misc Stuff and Facts

★ Basically, Exif is used by jpeg, which is the format in which your Android camera saves pictures. If you want to know more about Exif, check the Wikipedia.

★ Scrambled Exif also renames the files (this can be disabled).

★ Please don't heavily rely on the data being deleted. Scrambled Exif does its job pretty well, but it could fail. Always double-check before you share.

★ It doesn't really scramble the Exif data, it deletes it. So the name is probably stupid. But I like it. The icon doesn't depict scrambled eggs either. So the icon is probably stupid. But I like it. And I also happen to be a huge fan of eggs. So this app doesn't only have a stupid name and an equally stupid icon, it is also my (non-stupid) tribute to eggs. Especially huevos fritos. Because I love them.

★ Have fun sharing your pics!

Ratings and reviews

Really useful app! It does exactly what it says it does, and I think (literally) couldn't be any simpler or more straight-forward: share your pic -> select this app, which immediately strips all EXIF data then prompts again for where you'd like to shared the "cleaned" image. Files are optionally renamed... Absolutely zero network connections (data collection, advertising, or otherwise) are ever attempted. Search for "scrambled exif pro" to support the dev(s)!

great, messages should have this built in as an option for privacy and safety. the only improvement I wish it had was when the 2nd share menu pops up, it's just a black screen, maybe instead have some message like"you're now sharing w/ exif removed" so you have confirmation that it actually went thru scrambedexif. otherwise just androids share menu just sucks but that's not the devs problem. it solves a must needed issue

I think it works, biggest issue is that I can't edit meta Data or even save a cleaned file locally. so it's still going to log the IP address of where it was sent from and all that, kinda making it not have a function? am I mistaken?

What’s new

New in 1.8.1

★ Updated translations.

New in 1.8

★ Privacy fix: Scrambling now verifies files were properly cleaned, catching cases that could previously slip through. It can be slower, mainly when sharing several files at once.
★ Fixed some crashes that could happen while scrambling certain files.
★ You'll now see a summary if a file couldn't be scrambled.
★ New optional setting: get a notification instead of an on-screen message when something fails (off by default).

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