Remove Hidden File Metadata Before You Share

Yes. Odd$ Vault is free to use. There is no account, no email signup and no usage counter. The only limits come from your own browser and device, because files are processed in your device's memory.

No. Your files are read and cleaned by JavaScript running in your browser, and the encrypted ZIP is created on your device and saved through your browser's normal download. Odd$ Vault contains no upload code, and the page is configured to block itself from making network requests. Favorable Odds does not receive or store your files or your password. Opening the page does load the page itself and its fonts over the web, like any website.

It removes common metadata from JPEG, PNG, WebP, PDF, DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files: EXIF (including GPS location and camera details), XMP and IPTC data and embedded comments in images; document information fields and XMP metadata in PDFs; and author, last modified by, company, manager, dates, application details and preview thumbnails in Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. See what Odd$ Vault can clean for each format and for what it leaves alone.

Yes, for JPEG photos. Odd$ Vault removes the whole EXIF block, which is where GPS coordinates are stored, along with the camera model, timestamps and embedded thumbnail. It also removes XMP data. PNG and WebP images have their EXIF data removed the same way. HEIC photos, the default on many iPhones, are not supported, so convert them to JPEG first. On a Mac, open the photo in Preview and choose File > Export, then pick JPEG. After cleaning, the report shows whether GPS location was found and removed.

Yes. It clears the PDF's document information fields (title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, creation date and modification date) and its document-level XMP metadata. It does not edit page content, annotations, attachments or form data, and it cannot open password-protected PDFs.

Yes, for .docx files. Odd$ Vault clears the core properties (such as author, last modified by, title and dates) and extended properties (such as company, manager and application details), and removes the preview thumbnail. It does not remove comments, tracked changes, custom properties or hidden text, and it does not clean images embedded in the document. Older .doc files are not supported.

No. Removing metadata only clears hidden fields in the file. Faces, names, visible text, screenshots, logos, writing style, file names and the contents of a document can still identify you or your organization. See what Odd$ Vault does not do.

Odd$ Vault cleans JPEG/JPG, PNG, WebP, PDF, DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. Other types, such as HEIC, GIF, TIFF, video, older .doc, .xls and .ppt files, or Apple Pages, Numbers and Keynote files, cannot be cleaned. For Pages, Numbers and Keynote, export a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF copy first (File > Export To) and clean that. You can still add them to the ZIP by ticking “Also include files Vault can't clean”, but they keep whatever metadata they have.

Odd$ Vault encrypts the ZIP with AES-256. Neither the built-in Windows ZIP extractor nor the Mac's Archive Utility (what opens a ZIP when you double-click it in Finder) supports AES-encrypted ZIP files, so double-clicking it shows an error. Open it with a free tool such as 7-Zip or WinRAR on Windows, or Keka or The Unarchiver on a Mac. If you left “Hide file names inside the zip” on, extracting gives you a single file called contents.zip, which opens normally and holds your cleaned files.

Yes. It runs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Edge on a Mac, the same as on Windows, iPhone and Android, and nothing is installed. Two things work differently on a Mac: photos from an iPhone are often HEIC, which Vault can't clean, so export them as JPEG first (in Preview: File > Export); and double-clicking the encrypted ZIP in Finder won't open it, so use the free Keka or The Unarchiver app.

No. Your password is used in your browser to encrypt the ZIP and is never sent to or stored by Favorable Odds, so there is nothing for us to recover. If you lose it, the files in the ZIP cannot be opened. Save it in a password manager before you download.

Your original files are never modified; only cleaned copies go into the ZIP. Images are not re-compressed, so quality is not reduced. One visible side effect: EXIF also stores photo orientation, so some phone photos may appear rotated after cleaning. PDFs and Office files are re-saved by the tool, so their file size can change slightly.