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Metadata Remover App For Android

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Remove any image's metadata fast and easily.

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Protect your privacy by removing metadata from your photos, videos and documents, before sharing them on the internet!

Features

 ✔️ View metadata

 ✔️ Image preview

 ✔️ Remove metadata

 ✔️ Simple and intuitive interface

 ✔️ Share directly from the app

Learn more

Whenever you take a picture, shoot a video or create a document additional metadata is saved in the image file.

Most smartphones do not inform you about this.

Metadata can look like this:

  •  🕑 On which day was the picture taken, and at what time?
  •  🗺️ And where exactly?
  •  📷 Which camera or smartphone was used?
  •  🔧 What camera settings were used?
  •  📝 Notes of the photographer or the camera?
  •  📌 More and more often, even exact GPS coordinates are saved in your photo.
  • 👥 Who created the document?

Metadata is sometimes very useful — for instance when sorting holiday photos.

As soon as you share files with others via social media, all this info is visible publicly.

Data collectors and stalkers are more easily able to discover your place of residence or workplace from the metadata or draw conclusions about your daily routine.

Tracking services create more comprehensive advertising profiles and sell your data to other organizations.

Use the Metadata Remover to easily view all that data, remove it entirely, and then share the anonymized file directly! That way you stay anonymous and safe on the Internet, while your friends can still admire your cute cat.

Those formats are supported at the moment:

  • 📷 Image: PNG & JPEG
  • 📹 Video: AVI, MP4, MPEG, OGG, QUICKTIME, WEBM & WMV
  • 📝 Docs: DOCX, DOC, XLSX, XLS, ODT, ODS & PDF
  • 🎵 Audio: MP4, MPEG (including AAC & MP3), OGG, WEBM & X-WAV

Happy sharing! 😽

Deployment

Encoding/decoding secrets

To decode the secrets, run:

cd secret
gpg --quiet --batch --yes --decrypt --output secrets.tar secrets.tar.gpg
tar -xf secrets.tar
cd ..

To encode the secrets, run:

cd secret
tar -cf secrets.tar --exclude=secrets.tar --exclude=secrets.tar.gpg --exclude=.gitignore .
gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 --output secrets.tar.gpg secrets.tar
cd ..

The same password needs to be saved as FILES_PASSPHRASE variable to this repository's secret.

Contributing

The development or a feature branch is used while developing the code, and pushed into the master branch trunk afterwards for releases. PRs to the trunk need at least one approving review before getting merged.

Help translate the app at Hosted Weblate.

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

Check out the contribution guidelines for details please.

License

Apache License 2.0