Your Files Are Talking Behind Your Back. Meet Metadata Cleaner.

Every file you create is a small act of self-disclosure.

That photo you shot on your iPhone? It knows exactly where you were standing — latitude, longitude, altitude — and it's quietly embedding that into every pixel. That video you exported from Premiere? It's carrying your software version, your machine's unique identifiers, and timestamps that trace back to the moment you hit record. That audio file you just mastered? Same story.

None of this is visible to the naked eye. But anyone who knows where to look can read it in seconds.

That's what metadata is — and until now, dealing with it has been either a technical headache or something most creators simply never thought about.

Today, that changes.

Introducing Metadata Cleaner

We just added a new tool to Creator Tools: the Metadata Cleaner. Upload any image, video, or audio file, and you'll instantly see every piece of hidden data baked inside it — color-coded by how much of a privacy risk it actually poses.

Then, with one click, strip it all out completely.

That's it. That's the tool.

What's Actually Hiding in Your Files

You'd be surprised. Here's a taste of what a single smartphone photo can contain:

• GPS coordinates — precise enough to identify your home, your office, or a private location
• Device serial numbers and unique identifiers — used to fingerprint your specific hardware across platforms
• Owner name and copyright fields — sometimes pulled straight from your OS account settings without you realizing
• Software fingerprints — which apps and versions you used to create or edit the file
• Timestamps — creation date, edit history, and export time

Some of this is useful when you're organizing your own library. All of it becomes a liability the moment you share a file publicly.

How It Works

View Metadata — Free

Drag and drop any file (up to 75MB) and the tool instantly surfaces everything hidden inside. Each field is color-coded so you can see at a glance what's sensitive:

🔴 Privacy Risk — GPS coordinates, serial numbers, owner names, software fingerprints

🟡 Caution — Timestamps, camera models, creation dates

🟢 Safe — Resolution, format info, codec details

No account required. No credits needed. Just upload and see.

Clean & Download — 1 Credit

When you're ready to strip it all out, click "Clean & Download." Your file is processed server-side using FFmpeg, re-encoded or re-muxed to ensure zero traces remain — no EXIF, no GPS tags, no ownership data, no software fingerprints. Nothing.

The cleaned file is returned to you, ready to share.

Why This Matters for Creators Specifically

Privacy tools are often marketed toward journalists or activists. But the reality is that creators are some of the most exposed people on the internet — and most don't know it.

If you share photos online, your GPS coordinates can reveal exactly where you live, work, or spend time. This isn't hypothetical. It's happened.

If you post content to social media, embedded device identifiers can be used to link your accounts together — even across platforms where you intended to stay anonymous.

If you distribute creative work, residual software metadata can expose what tools you use, what versions you're running, and details about your production workflow that you may not want competitors or clients to see.

None of this requires a sophisticated attacker. Basic metadata readers are free, widely available, and easy to use.

Supported File Types

Metadata Cleaner works across a wide range of formats:

Images — JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP Videos — MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM, MPEG Audio — MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC, M4A

Try It Now

Head to creatorframes.com/metadata-cleaner, drop in a file, and see what it's been carrying around. The inspection is completely free.

If you want a clean version, it's one credit — and you'll wonder how you ever sent files without checking first.

Look for the card with the animated rainbow border in Creator Tools. You'll know it when you see it. 🌈

Metadata Cleaner is available now as part of the Creator Tools suite at CreatorFrames. Your Files Are Talking Behind Your Back. Meet Metadata Cleaner.