How it works
Three steps, no account required to try it.
Load your file
Drop an image or video into the browser. It is read into memory locally — there is no upload request, which you can confirm in your network tab.
Review what was found
The engine walks the actual byte structure and lists every metadata segment it finds: C2PA manifests, EXIF blocks, XMP packets and text chunks.
Export a clean copy
Metadata segments are dropped and the remaining bytes are rewritten. Pixels are untouched, so there is no re-encode and no quality loss.
What this tool handles
PNG chunk walker
Parses the real chunk list rather than pattern-matching bytes, so critical chunks are never damaged.
Prompt text removal
Text chunks frequently contain the full prompt you used. Those are removed along with the rest of the metadata.
Colour profile preserved
The iCCP profile is deliberately kept — dropping it visibly shifts colour on wide-gamut images.
Readable previews
Each detected chunk shows a preview so you can see what was embedded before removing it.
Batch scrubbing
Drop an entire upscale batch in and strip every file in one pass.
Sub-second results
Chunk rewriting is fast because there is no image decoding involved at all.
What gets removed
| Format | Removed | Preserved |
|---|---|---|
| PNG | tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, eXIf, caBX (C2PA/JUMBF), tIME | IHDR, IDAT, IEND, iCCP colour profile |
| JPEG | APP1–APP15 (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, C2PA) | SOI, APP0/JFIF, ICC profile, scan data |
| MP4 / WebM | Visible watermark across every frame, container metadata | Audio track, full clip length (real re-encode) |
Frequently asked
Does Midjourney embed my prompt in the file?
PNG text chunks on generated images commonly carry prompt text, job identifiers and generator attribution. Scan a file with the tool above and you will see exactly what your own exports contain.
Will this reduce my image quality?
No. Metadata scrubbing rewrites the container around your image data — it drops the metadata segments and copies the pixel data through byte for byte. There is no decode and re-encode step, so the output is pixel-identical to the input. ICC colour profiles are deliberately preserved so colours do not shift.
Do my files get uploaded anywhere?
No. The scrubbing engine is JavaScript running in your own browser tab. There is no upload endpoint and no server-side processing queue, so your media never leaves your device. You can verify this by opening your browser network tab while you scan a file.
What about the invisible pixel watermark?
This tool removes embedded metadata segments — it does not attempt to defeat steganographic or pixel-level watermarking, which is a fundamentally different problem. We would rather tell you that plainly than overstate what the engine does.
Is it legal to remove watermarks and content credentials?
It depends entirely on the media and your intent. Removing marks from work you own or are licensed to edit is normally fine. Stripping provenance data to pass AI-generated media off as authentic in journalism, elections, legal evidence or identity documents is prohibited by our terms and may be unlawful where you are. You are responsible for how you use the output.
Is there a free tier?
Yes. You can scan and inspect files without an account at all. A free account adds a daily cleaning quota, and paid plans raise that quota and unlock batch processing and API access.
Other tools
Generator-agnostic
Inspect any image byte by byte and remove its embedded provenance data — C2PA Content Credentials, EXIF records, XMP packets and PNG text chunks — whichever tool produced it.
Open toolGoogle Veo & Flow
Veo powers both the Gemini app and Flow, Google’s AI filmmaking tool — and everything they render carries a corner watermark plus SynthID provenance.
Open toolGoogle Gemini · Nano Banana
Gemini image generation attaches provenance metadata and a SynthID mark to everything it produces.
Open toolRunway Gen-4 & Aleph
Runway exports carry a corner watermark plus embedded provenance metadata that identifies the clip as AI-generated.
Open toolOpenAI Sora · discontinued
Sora has been discontinued, but the clips people generated with it have not gone anywhere — and they still carry C2PA Content Credentials and a visible watermark.
Open toolGPT Image & DALL-E 3
Images generated by DALL-E 3 through ChatGPT carry C2PA Content Credentials identifying them as AI-generated.
Open toolYour files never leave your device
Every scrub runs in your browser tab. There is no upload endpoint, no queue, and no copy of your media on our side — by architecture, not policy.