I'm looking for an Android app that strips EXIF from photos before I upload them somewhere. I really care mostly about removing geolocation. I searched on F-Droid, I didn't find much. Has anybody used Scrambled Exif ?

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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I use scrambled exif. Works well but only when sharing photos, it can't erase metadata from your library.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    "Photo Metadata Remover" by Syrupy on the Play Store was the tool recommended by the security team at a previous workplace. I rarely need it, but I see it's added ads, so I'd be more tempted to check for a FOSS alternative.

    There's always ImageMagick on PC, if you don't mind dealing with them there. It strips EXIF and Adobe metadata from images very well. Or the old "screenshot of a digital photo" trick is still peerless.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I use ImagePipe, which has worked well for me

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    Yeah, ImagePipe also resizes large images to defined dimensions and quality, which typically reduces the file size. And the app takes all of one megabyte, instead of over 150 that Image Toolbox takes.

    Although I have a weird issue that it currently seems to resize smaller images to the target dimensions too, even though 'max w&h' is selected.

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    I am using scrambled exif, its great and easy to use

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You could open the photo and take a screenshot?

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    I've not used it for this purpose, but the (excellent) Photo Editor has a batch edit function and removing metadata appears to be an option:

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Scrambled Exif is simple and works well in my experience. You can also try ExifEraser, which I've found works about the same, maybe with a few extra features.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You can turn off geotagging in the camera settings.

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    [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I have not used that part of this tool, but here is one. https://f-droid.org/packages/ru.tech.imageresizershrinker/

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I use Piktures it allows you to remove location data before sharing. This way it only removes the data when you want to as opposed to removing it from all pics

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