Video Metadata Remover is a video tool that runs in your browser. Strip GPS coordinates, device info, software history, and creation timestamps from any video. The video and audio streams are copied losslessly — only the metadata is removed. Files are processed entirely in your browser with FFmpeg WebAssembly. The page you are reading is the same workspace you will use to do the work: pick a file or paste your input, choose the options that matter to you, and the tool produces the result on your device.
The processing pipeline is straightforward: your input is parsed by FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, transformed according to the options you select, and serialised back into a downloadable result. Accepted input formats are MP4, WebM, MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, and OGV. The 500 MB per-file ceiling matches what a typical browser tab can handle without paging to disk.
Common audiences for Video Metadata Remover include students submitting video assignments and educators editing lecture clips, but plenty of people land on the page through a one-off search and never come back — that is also fine. The tool is built to be useful even when you only ever need it once.
Video Metadata Remover is structured so the question "where is my file processed?" has a single answer: in your browser tab. The engine, the controls, and the result panel are all on one page. Navigating away or closing the tab clears the page's memory the way it does for every other tab.
Video Metadata Remover is shaped for the gap between "I'll do it by hand" and "I'll script it." When the job is small enough that automating it would take longer than doing it, but annoying enough to want a focused tool — that is the situation this page is built for.
When the job finishes, Video Metadata Remover hands you the result as `{name}-edited.{ext}`. Filenames are derived from your input where possible, so a quick batch of jobs leaves you with a tidy folder rather than a pile of generic "output (3)" files. Nothing is auto-saved on Favtoo's side because nothing was ever sent there.
The architecture imposes only the limits the browser itself imposes. The published 500 MB ceiling is conservative; most modern devices comfortably handle inputs up to that size, and the cap exists so the tool degrades gracefully on phones and budget laptops rather than running out of memory.
Even on its own, Video Metadata Remover composes well with the rest of your toolkit. The output is a standard MP4 file that opens in any program that handles the format, so the result of one run can become the input to whatever step you use next.
Some notes on the design of Video Metadata Remover. The page is intentionally narrow: one input, the controls relevant to the task, and one output. Adding unrelated features would make the common case slower for the majority of users, so the surface is held to what people actually use.
From a product perspective, Video Metadata Remover is one of the simplest possible expressions of "do one thing well." The catalog contains dozens of related tools that each handle a slightly different video editing and conversion task, and every one is a separate page rather than a tab inside a larger app. That separation keeps each tool fast to load and easy to bookmark.
Video Metadata Remover runs as a regular web page, so there is no install step or permission grant before the first run. The page can be audited by viewing the source or by watching the developer-tools Network tab while a job runs.
Pro tip: Video Metadata Remover works just as well in a private/incognito window as in a normal one, which is occasionally useful when you want zero browser-history footprint of the job. Another tip: if the tool ever feels slow, it is almost always because the browser tab is competing for CPU with another tab — pausing or closing the heavy ones gives the engine room to work.
For most failure modes, refreshing the page and re-running the job is enough — the engine has no persistent state to corrupt. If the same input fails twice in a row, the input itself is most likely the problem (a truncated file, an unexpected variant of the format, or a stream the engine does not recognise).
That is essentially everything Video Metadata Remover does and how it does it. Open the tool above, drop in your input, and the work happens in the page. If you find yourself reaching for it often, bookmark the page — it loads quickly on subsequent visits, and your most-recent settings are remembered for the rest of the session.
A WebAssembly build of FFmpeg loads in this page and uses `-map_metadata -1 -c copy` to copy your video and audio streams unchanged into a new MP4 while dropping all metadata tags — entirely on your device.
Because we use stream-copy: no pixels or audio samples are decoded or re-encoded. FFmpeg just remuxes the existing streams into a fresh container without the metadata. Most files finish in seconds.
Even stream-copy requires reading every byte of the source file. Server tools have faster disk and network I/O. The trade-off is total privacy — your file never leaves your device.
Title, artist, copyright, comments, software/encoder name, creation date, GPS location, device make/model, software history, custom tags, and chapter labels. The video and audio content itself is unchanged.
All metadata also clears per-stream tags (language tags, stream titles). Global only strips container-level metadata while preserving per-stream info — useful when you want to scrub privacy data but keep multilingual audio labels.
No. Stream-copy is byte-perfect for the audio and video data. Only the tag fields are removed.
Up to 500MB. Stream-copy is very memory-efficient because no decoding happens.
No. The cleaning runs entirely in your browser tab. Nothing is transmitted, stored, or logged. Closing the tab erases the file from memory immediately.
No installation is needed. Video Metadata Remover runs as a normal web page, with no browser extension, no native helper, and no separate desktop client to download. That is partly a privacy choice — extensions can request broad permissions, while a regular page is sandboxed by default — and partly a convenience one: you can use Video Metadata Remover on any computer you have temporary access to without leaving anything installed on it.
Video Metadata Remover uses native HTML controls wherever possible, which means keyboard navigation, focus rings, and screen-reader labels work the way the platform expects. The drop zone accepts files via the keyboard-accessible file picker as well as drag-and-drop, and result downloads use standard browser download flows. If you spot an accessibility gap, Favtoo treats it as a bug worth fixing.
Video Metadata Remover is built to preserve quality wherever the underlying video format allows it. Operations that are mathematically lossless (e.g. structural transformations, lossless re-encoding) round-trip with no perceptible change. Operations that involve a lossy codec inevitably introduce small artefacts at the byte level, but the defaults aim at the sweet spot where output looks or sounds the same to a normal viewer or listener while still being meaningfully smaller or faster than the input.
Desktop apps usually have more advanced features but require installation, maintenance and (often) a licence. Paid online tools are convenient but route your file through their servers and gate downloads behind accounts. Video Metadata Remover sits in between: free, instant, and private, but intentionally narrow in scope. For one-off jobs and the common video editing and conversion operations, it is usually the lowest-friction choice; for highly specialised work, a dedicated app is still the right answer.
Failures usually fall into one of three buckets: the input is in an unsupported format, the input is over the size cap, or the input is structurally malformed (a truncated download, a partial export, or a stream the engine does not recognise). The first two are easy to confirm — check that your file is one of MP4, WebM, MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, and OGV and that it is below 500 MB. For the third, opening the file in its native viewer first is the fastest way to confirm the source is intact.
Video Metadata Remover processes one input at a time by design — it keeps memory usage predictable on lower-end devices and makes results easier to verify. To handle a folder, run the tool once per file; the page stays loaded between runs and remembers your last-used settings, so the second run is essentially instant.
Video Metadata Remover is a static page running an open-source engine in your browser, so a typical corporate firewall does not get in the way as long as it allows JavaScript and WebAssembly to load from Favtoo. For teams that need to host it themselves on an internal network, the underlying engine (FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly) is open-source and can be packaged into a private build with the same behaviour. Reach out via the Contact page if that is something you are exploring.
Your file is processed inside your browser by FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly. The engine reads the file's bytes from your tab's memory, computes the result, and writes the result back into the tab. You can confirm what the page does by opening developer tools and watching the Network tab during a run — the requests you see are for the tool's static assets only.
Inputs are capped at 500 MB per file, which keeps memory usage stable across phones, tablets and older laptops. You can run Video Metadata Remover as often as you need; every run produces a full-quality result.
Video to GIF
Convert any video clip to an animated GIF entirely in your browser. Pick the start, length, frame rate, and width — your file is processed locally with FFmpeg WebAssembly and never uploaded.
Screen Recorder
Record your screen, a window, or a browser tab directly in your browser. Optionally include system audio and your microphone. Capture, preview, and download the video without installing any app — and without uploading anything.
Webcam Recorder
Record your webcam directly in your browser with optional microphone audio. Pick the resolution (480p, 720p, or 1080p), frame rate, and mirror mode, then capture and download the result without installing any app.
Screen + Webcam Recorder
Record your screen with your webcam composited into a picture-in-picture corner — perfect for tutorials, course videos, demos, and reaction recordings. Pick the camera position, size, and audio sources, then capture and download in your browser.
Video Slideshow Maker
Turn a stack of photos into an MP4 slideshow with per-slide durations, crossfades, and an optional soundtrack. Pick the resolution (up to 1080p), frame rate, and transitions, then download a single MP4 — all processed in your browser with FFmpeg WebAssembly.
Video from Images + Audio
Combine a stack of photos with a music track or narration into a single MP4 video. Pick the resolution, per-slide duration, transitions, and let the slideshow length match the audio. All processed in your browser with FFmpeg WebAssembly.
Video Trimmer
Set precise in and out timestamps, snap to keyframes when needed, and document handles for social-safe cutdowns.
Video Splitter
Split any video into 2–10 equal-length pieces, packaged as a downloadable ZIP. Files are processed entirely in your browser with FFmpeg WebAssembly using lossless stream-copy.