Why Browser-Local Tools Protect Your Privacy

Traditional online converters store files on servers, sometimes for hours. That exposes location metadata and personal images to third parties.

Phone photos often embed GPS coordinates, device model, and timestamps in EXIF. Sending that file to a cloud converter means a third party can read it even if you never meant to share location.

ExactPic processes images in your browser. Re-encoding for compression or resize typically strips EXIF in the output file. Your original never leaves your machine.

When ExactPic draws your image to a canvas and exports JPG/PNG/WebP, the download is a new file. Typical camera EXIF tags (GPS, lens, orientation metadata) are not copied into that output.

That is useful before you upload to a form, but it is not a forensic wipe guarantee for every edge case — keep your original offline if you need a pristine archive.

We do not sell a dedicated “metadata scrubber” product, and we do not inspect or store your files. Privacy comes from local processing, not from uploading to us for cleaning.

If a form requires an unaltered original (some passport renewals), do not re-encode — use a check-only portal page instead of compress/resize tools.