MetadataScrubber

about

description

MetadataScrubber shows what a photo carries besides the picture itself, lets you choose what to remove, and then reads the new file back so you can see what is left: GPS position, camera serial numbers, owner names, dates, a built-in preview image and more. It asks for one Android permission, the camera, and only when you tap Take a photo. There is no internet permission, so it cannot send your photos anywhere, and no storage permission either: pictures come in through the system file picker, a share from your gallery or the app's own camera, and go out through the system save screen, a share or the clipboard. Check it yourself before installing: aapt dump permissions <the APK you downloaded> The only lines you should see are the package name and android.permission.CAMERA. - Shows every detail with its value before it removes, grouped in a Red, an Amber and a Green section. - Only red details are ticked for removal to start with. Amber (dates, time zone, camera, lens and editing software) is kept unless you tick it. Captions, titles, descriptions, keywords, comments and Content Credentials are red, because they can name people. - Amber keeps a date or device name only in the form it should have: text hidden after it, in a field the page does not show, or in the file's own structure is a red detail and is removed. - Green (rotation, colour profile, size and exposure) is kept too, and holds only numbers, fixed words and well-known profile names: a name hidden in a colour profile or a technical field is a red detail of its own. - HDR photos keep their gain map by default, so Ultra HDR JPEGs and iPhone HDR JPEG and HEIC photos stay bright on HDR screens; anything else in it or around it is still listed and removed. When your choices remove the colour profile or the gain map, a note says that colours may look a little duller and bright areas less vivid on HDR screens. - XMP, IPTC and PNG text that stay are always written again in a standard form, so their layout cannot carry hidden information. - Tick a whole colour at once, or open it to choose single details. - Lossless by default: the picture is not saved again unless you crop, resize, convert or remove a sideways rotation. - Crop, resize and convert JPEG, PNG and WebP when you need to. - Reads the result back, so you see what remains before you share. - Neutral file names such as image.public.jpg. - Take a photo in the app: a shutter, a front or back switch, a flash button where the camera has a flash, and pinch to zoom, nothing more. The photo is made without a location or device details, is not added to your gallery, and goes straight to Save, Copy or Share. - Share a photo in from your gallery, then Save, Copy image or Share the clean copy, as on the website. Copy image puts a fresh copy without file details on the clipboard, where it can be pasted for 2 minutes before the app deletes it, and a note under Share reminds you that once a picture is online, you cannot take it back. JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC. HEIC metadata can be removed, but cropping and resizing HEIC are not available in the app, because Android's web engine cannot open HEIC pictures. It cannot remove anything visible in the picture, the file name you choose, a camera's sensor fingerprint, or invisible watermarks in the pixels. The app runs the same files as metadata.stormberry.as, bundled and offline. The build checks that every one is byte for byte identical to the website's copy, apart from one added line in index.html that loads a small Android bridge for saving, sharing and the camera. Privacy page: https://metadata.stormberry.as/privacy.html (also inside the app).

publisher

108aef782a95a65a2df059578e67a71366a65a697e163711b54574e8da0e6e30

first seen

2026-10-03T12:10:42.361089+00:00

last event

2026-10-12 03:19 UTC

website

https://metadata.stormberry.as

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#exif #metadata #offline #photos #privacy

source & build

repository

https://github.com/StormberryAS/MetadataScrubber

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a android-armeabi-v7a android-x86 android-x86_64

manifest

zapstore.yaml ok checked 2026-10-03T13:09:00.456896+00:00

{
  "icon": "./fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/icon.png",
  "images": [
    "./fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/01-loaded.png",
    "./fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/02-reveals.png",
    "./fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/03-result.png",
    "./fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/04-save-share.png"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "match": "MetadataScrubber-.*\\.apk$",
  "name": "MetadataScrubber",
  "repository": "https://github.com/StormberryAS/MetadataScrubber",
  "summary": "Remove location and other hidden details from photos, on your device",
  "tags": [
    "privacy",
    "photos",
    "metadata",
    "exif",
    "offline"
  ],
  "website": "https://metadata.stormberry.as"
}

releases (kind 30063)

6 releases indexed; latest 1.1.0.

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

1.1.0 — MetadataScrubber-v1.1.0.apk

sha256

df31953ad2026bd90cf4aa9114f8eef2ef7cb1d932d8efa4bc571d1fbd0cf9da

size

6.2 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

6

apk cert sha256

30e916e7d44860a2c00c839ad2a6b5806e15d14d59b2811c962866959f3e3a98

download

MetadataScrubber-v1.1.0.apk

1.0.1 — MetadataScrubber-v1.0.1.apk

sha256

edc50761cdd3abe05290da9eb858a02f49e44203774e83f226f3d2eddff30f57

size

5.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

5

apk cert sha256

30e916e7d44860a2c00c839ad2a6b5806e15d14d59b2811c962866959f3e3a98

download

MetadataScrubber-v1.0.1.apk

1.0.0 — MetadataScrubber-v1.0.0.apk

sha256

ab28cecf504c512ba1f52d0fe4ad9b7c089a51d9927548588f5e8b4e84501cf5

size

5.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

4

apk cert sha256

30e916e7d44860a2c00c839ad2a6b5806e15d14d59b2811c962866959f3e3a98

download

MetadataScrubber-v1.0.0.apk

0.0.3 — MetadataScrubber-v0.0.3.apk

sha256

10f768e830ee1c877239af8c917e6106d8ae305d3f2cc2d8da16d87060165550

size

5.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

3

apk cert sha256

30e916e7d44860a2c00c839ad2a6b5806e15d14d59b2811c962866959f3e3a98

download

MetadataScrubber-v0.0.3.apk

0.0.2 — MetadataScrubber-v0.0.2.apk

sha256

e4fdf1d15fb7c93d8ca6325feb97d7082995dadbd347f4b7651597d8fb0138e5

size

5.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

2

apk cert sha256

30e916e7d44860a2c00c839ad2a6b5806e15d14d59b2811c962866959f3e3a98

download

MetadataScrubber-v0.0.2.apk

0.0.1 — MetadataScrubber-v0.0.1.apk

sha256

444332b3ebb54ff6be3419c828c74bdf7a148f78d54383db024069eeb582e899

size

5.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

1

apk cert sha256

30e916e7d44860a2c00c839ad2a6b5806e15d14d59b2811c962866959f3e3a98

download

MetadataScrubber-v0.0.1.apk

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