metadata.video

You're about to post a clip or send it to a stranger, and you have no idea what's travelling with it. A phone video carries more than the picture. metadata.video opens a file and lays out what's inside: where it was shot, shown on a map, the dates and time zone, the device, and any Content Credentials recording where the file came from. The technical side is there too, with the codec, resolution and frame rate, HDR flags and the audio tracks.

It reads MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM and AVI video, plus JPEG, HEIC and PNG photos. Each section comes with an explanation, so you aren't left decoding raw tags. A minute here tells you whether your home's coordinates are going along with the clip.

Two choices cover most needs: remove all metadata, or remove only the location. You can also change single fields such as the title, date and place. By the team's account, the usual ways to read this data were command-line tools such as ExifTool or ffprobe, or websites that need the file uploaded, and the job this tool does fastest is removing only the GPS location from an MP4 or MOV before sharing it, without re-encoding.

For MP4 and MOV, the site says only the metadata is rewritten and the picture and sound are copied byte for byte, so cleaning costs no quality and is instant even on large files. MKV and similar formats are copied stream by stream, still without re-encoding. After you download the new file, the tool reads it back and shows what changed, which is a nice touch. For a record, the full file report copies or downloads as text, JSON or CSV.

The site is plain about the limits. Metadata can't prove a file is genuine or reveal whether pixels were made by AI. Removing it doesn't hide anything visible in the picture, and it won't stop copyright or duplicate detection, because platforms match videos by picture and sound. The team adds two more. The tool reads Content Credentials records but doesn't verify their signatures, and clips that have passed through messaging or social apps have often lost their location already, so there may be little to show.

It's free, with no account or watermark. According to the privacy page, updated November 7, 2026, files are read and rewritten by your own browser and never uploaded. A few pieces load only when you ask. The speech transcription model, about 75 MB, comes from Hugging Face in the United States, and transcription then runs in the browser. Street map tiles come from OpenStreetMap only after you press Show street map, and that service then sees your IP address and the area of the file's location.

Google Analytics sets cookies, which start switched off for visitors in the EU, EEA and Switzerland. The project presents itself as independent and self-funded, and names no person or company. If you share phone videos with people you don't know well, it's worth running one through here before your next upload.