Do you know what data your photos reveal about you? 🤔 Every image you share contains hidden metadata exposing your exact location, daily schedule, and technical details that can fingerprint your device. Whether you’re a photographer or privacy-conscious, you need to be aware of this risk. DropTidy lets you delete this data in your browser. 🔒 Total Privacy: Everything happens inside your browser. 🕵️ Deep Analysis: Find hidden privacy risks. ✨ Lossless: Keeps original quality and resolution.
Do you check what hidden data is inside your photos before you share them online?
I built DropTidy because I realized that every photo I take has hidden information by default. I wanted to clean my photos regularly to stay safe, but I did not want to upload my private images to someone else's server to do it.
My approach was to build something 100% private. DropTidy works entirely inside your browser. This means your photos never leave your device and never touch a server.
It can find over 28 hidden risks, including your exact location and technical details that can fingerprint your phone. It removes this data while keeping your original image quality and colors perfect.
Did you know about this? Did you know there is a hidden layer in each photo regarding the device?
I knew photos had EXIF data but I never paid much attention to it. After checking today’s launch and looking at my own photos I could see how much information is stored there. Now its time to start using DropTidy in my daily routine and also tell my friends and family about it.
It’s hard to believe that an app can keep working even after you go offline. I tried it myself and it really does work. Before this I never thought about how much hidden data is inside the pics we share every day. And Congrats on the launch.
Kinda surprising how much information gets bundled into a image without anyone noticing. Location, device details all of it just goes along when we share an image.
lol I always assumed photos were just… photos. Didn’t really think about anything extra being attached to them. DropTidy made me realise there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes and it is simple enough that you don’t need to understand all the technical stuff to still protect yourself.
When we share a photo we usually don’t think about what else goes with it. Our phones save location and device details by default. Clearing that data before post or send help us keep more control over privacy. Thanks for building an app that makes this easy to handle.
I have one further query regarding compatibility: do you plan to include .tiff files in a future update, alongside the RAW support you are currently investigating?
Congrats on the launch! Love the browser-only approach, keeping photos local while stripping metadata feels like the right default for privacy. How transparent is the cleanup process for users, can they see exactly which metadata fields were removed before exporting?
28 hidden risks is a concrete number... GPS and camera model are obvious, but lens corrections and editing software versions can fingerprint devices too. Browser-only approach is the right call here. Curious if DropTidy handles HEIC or just standard JPEG/PNG.
The 'Zero Upload' approach is the only way I’d trust a tool with my personal photos. Knowing that the scrubbing happens 100% in the browser (client-side) is a huge selling point for privacy-conscious users. Does DropTidy support HEIC files from iPhones or RAW files from professional cameras, or is it primarily focused on JPEGs and PNGs? Supporting mobile-native formats would make this an everyday tool for me.
In practice, users differ on what they want removed: some want to nuke everything; others want to preserve attribution/copyright fields—how did you decide what to strip vs keep, and what’s your philosophy on “safe defaults” vs granular control?
This is a dream tool for a naturally paranoid person like me! Congrats on the launch 🙂
Looks solid, @tomdra Does this also remove embedded metadata around AI created images?
