Scrambled Exif

4.0
334 reviews
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Everyone
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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://www.transifex.com/juanitobananas/scrambled-exif/ and https://www.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!
Updated on
Oct 20, 2023

Data safety

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Ratings and reviews

4.1
327 reviews
Michael Richards
May 30, 2023
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)!
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Jays
March 1, 2021
This app is meant to be as minimal as possible. When you click "share" on something and pick Scrambled Eggsif, it will silently do its job and then the exact same share screen will pop up again - this time it's from Scrambled Eggsif though - and you pick the app you actually want to share to. It won't tell you "exif cleared" "success", "" que huevos! " or anything like that. It doesn't even suggest it did anything, so that way it's literally only one minor step extra in your routine.
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nascent
October 6, 2023
This is the best exif remover. I love that you can share images to it then just get a share prompt from there without ever needing to open the app interface at all. The notification system is a mess though. If the app fails to scramble exit it shows a flash notification of "scrambled exif was unabled to scramble the image because..." and is truncated then the message dissapears. No notification is shown in the notification tray. There's no way of knowing what the issue is.
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What's new

New in 1.7.12

★ Some maintenance stuff.
★ Also had to introduce a change (not requesting storage permission) for modern Androids, which is very nice, but could cause Scrambled Exif not work with apps that share pics incorrectly. Sorry, couldn't avoid that change due to Play Store policies.
★ If everything completely breaks for you, you'll have to install an older version from F-Droid.