DropMeta
Strip metadata in-browser — no upload
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Free client-side metadata remover for photos, PDFs, video and Office. GPS/EXIF, PDF author/XMP, and more — files never leave your device. No account. JPEG without recompress; HEIC in-place when possible; verify-after-strip can block download if residue remains.
PH · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: document and pdf metadata removers · 16 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Privacy
- Developer Tools
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More like this: all 16 launches in document and pdf metadata removers →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a purely client-side web application leveraging existing WebAssembly or JavaScript libraries (such as exiftool-wasm, pdf-lib, or piexifjs) to parse and strip metadata directly in the browser.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1008 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #791 of 1009 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 262 days after the earliest competitor.
- Image Metadata Viewer · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- PrivacyMetadata · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Remover Metadados · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Cleanpdf — Free PDF Metadata Remover · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- PDF Metadata Remover · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Barecopy · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Docfy · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- AI Metadata Remover · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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