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ExifCleaner is a metadata removal tool for photos, videos, and PDFs, available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Files are dropped onto the window and metadata is stripped. It offers batch processing, metadata inspection with before-and-after diffs, and options to preserve orientation or save copies. It is open source and states no network access or telemetry.
Privacy and web security resource for checking data exposure, metadata, and online traces.
Cwtch is the official cwtch.im peer implementation, written mainly in Go. Its README describes it as privacy-preserving infrastructure for asynchronous, decentralized and metadata-resistant applications, extending the metadata-resistant Ricochet protocol to support asynchronous, multi-peer group communications through discardable, untrusted, anonymous infrastructure. The README notes that a server section is out of date and that no current docker container exists.
Image Scrubber is a browser-based tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests. It removes identifying metadata (Exif data) from photographs and allows selective blurring or painting over of parts of an image to cover faces and other identifiable information. All processing happens in the browser and the tool works offline.
Metacleaner is an online tool that strips hidden metadata from PDFs, Office and OpenDocument files, images, audio and video. It runs in the browser, keeps file contents intact, and the first file is free without signup. A premium tier offers traffic, API access and cleaning history.
VerExif is a website for viewing and removing EXIF metadata from pictures online without downloading software. It accepts a public image up to 20MB, shows GPS information on a map when present, and states that no copy of the image is stored.
Website information page for traffic estimates, site metadata, and audience insights.
Cwtch is a decentralized, privacy-preserving, metadata resistant messaging app. Communication is end-to-end encrypted and takes place over Tor v3 onion services. Participants can host their own safe spaces or lend infrastructure to others. The protocol is open, and anyone is free to build bots, services and user interfaces.
Online steganography and image analysis tool for hiding, extracting, and inspecting data in images.
The Canadian Urban Data Repository hosts the Canadian Urban Data Catalogue (CUDC), a platform that catalogs urban datasets with metadata organized across six maturity levels covering basic information, access parameters, content details, privacy information, Indigenous data considerations, and data quality metrics.
Grapper is an alternative to the official Vine archive that uses the Vine archive's APIs. It offers searching for Vine creators, direct video input, random vines, and viewing people's bios and other information. Profile and video metadata are cached on retrieval, but thumbnails and video files are not.
Steganography Online is a browser-based tool that encodes a text message into an image and decodes hidden messages from images. It notes that larger images are needed for more text, and that neither the image nor the message is transmitted over the web.
Stingle Photos is a gallery and camera application with backup and sync for photos and videos. Files are encrypted before being stored or backed up. The open source software is released under the GPLv3 license and uses Libsodium as its encryption backbone. Registration requires only an email and password, and each account includes 1 GB of free cloud storage.
