Just Tool It
Just Tool It / Photo Redactor
On-device — nothing uploaded

Redact any image

Drop a photo, drag across what you want hidden, download a clean copy with EXIF data removed.

Drop a photo here

or browse from your device

Why redact a photo in the browser?

Photos shared online often carry far more than what's visible — the JPEG itself can include GPS coordinates of where it was taken, the make and model of the camera or phone, the exact capture date, and an embedded thumbnail of the original frame. Uploading the same photo to a server-side editor in order to redact it leaks that data before any redaction even happens. Just Tool It handles both jobs in the same tab: it paints over the regions you mark, then re-encodes the result through an HTML5 Canvas, which drops every EXIF tag in the process.

How to redact a photo (step-by-step)

  1. Drop your photo onto the upload area, or click to browse.
  2. Check the metadata panel. If your image carries EXIF data, you'll see a summary of what's about to be removed.
  3. Pick a style — Blur, Pixelate, or Solid black — and drag across every sensitive area.
  4. Click Download clean copy to save a flat image with redactions baked in and EXIF metadata removed.

Use Undo to remove the last region, or Reset to start over.

Frequently asked questions

What kind of metadata gets removed?
Everything that lives in the JPEG file's EXIF, IPTC, and XMP segments: GPS coordinates, camera make and model, lens, focal length, ISO, exposure, capture date and time, software used, even the embedded thumbnail. The exported image is a brand new file with only pixel data — nothing else travels with it.
Is the original file on disk modified?
No. Your original file is opened read-only and loaded into the browser's memory. The redactions are painted on a canvas copy. Closing the tab discards everything; the file on disk is untouched.
Can someone recover the blurred or pixelated areas?
The export is a flat raster image — no layers, no hidden data, no original-pixel backup. A heavy enough blur or pixelate setting cannot be reliably reversed; for maximum certainty against any recovery attempt, use Solid black.
How does this differ from Just Tool It's Image Redactor?
The Image Redactor focuses purely on covering pixels. This Photo Redactor adds an EXIF scan so you can see what hidden data was attached to the file, and it confirms the metadata was dropped after export. Use this one for anything you intend to share publicly.