Cleanpdf — Free PDF Metadata Remover
Remove hidden metadata from PDFs — free & 100% private
Details
- External ID
- 1260540
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cleanpdf — Free PDF Metadata Remover
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity, Privacy, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Remove hidden metadata from PDF files instantly. Free, private, and processed entirely in your browser — no uploads, no servers.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document and PDF utility tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- pdf metadata remover for privacy
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Client-side PDF metadata removal can be achieved quickly in the browser using existing JavaScript libraries like `pdf-lib` to strip info dictionaries and XMP metadata.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 385 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 386 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.
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- PrivyPDF · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- MariPDF · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- DonePDF – Free PDF Tools · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- EasyPDFNex · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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