Photo EXIF Remover: MetaClean
Live on Google Play
MetaClean: photo and video metadata remover for Android
Erase GPS location and EXIF metadata from photos and videos before sharing.
MetaClean is a product owned, developed and published by CarrySo. It is not a client project. Read how we built it or see the services behind it.
- Product category
- Privacy tool (Photography on Google Play)
- Platforms
- Android, Android 7.0 and later
- Status
- Live on Google Play
- Pricing
- Free, ad supported
- First released
- 4 September 2026
- Current version
- 1.3.0 (updated 8 October 2026)
- Technology
- Flutter, Custom ISOBMFF, HEIF and XMP parsers, local_auth, Firebase
What problem MetaClean solves
Shared photos and videos can carry GPS coordinates, device serial numbers and hidden thumbnails, and most cleaners ignore video or report a file as clean when they could not read it.
Who it is for
- People sharing photos publicly or on marketplaces
- Journalists, activists and anyone with a privacy concern
- Users who want proof that a file was cleaned
Main features
- Detects location, device fingerprint, software trails, hidden thumbnails, timestamps and AI provenance tags
- Per-file threat score and a filter for GPS-leaking media
- Video metadata cleaning without re-encoding
- One-tap presets and custom category selection
- Batch cleaning; originals are never modified
- Field inspector, raw hex viewer and SHA-256 audit certificate
- Biometric-locked history; English, Spanish and Urdu
Typical use cases
- Scan media for location and device fingerprints
- Clean video metadata without re-encoding
- Keep a biometric-locked history with SHA-256 audit certificates
Screenshots
Screenshots from the app's Google Play listing.
Technology and links
| Technology | Used for |
|---|---|
| Flutter & Dart | UI and app logic |
| GetX | State management and translations |
| exif, image, crypto | Metadata reading, image handling and SHA-256 hashing |
| Custom ISOBMFF / HEIF / XMP parsers | Byte-level metadata removal for video and HEIF |
| local_auth | Biometric lock for the history vault |
| video_player | Original vs sanitized playback comparison |
| Firebase (Firestore, Cloud Messaging) | Remote config and notifications |
| Google Mobile Ads | Monetisation |
| carryso_growth_config (in-house) | Our shared Flutter package for remote app config, soft/hard update prompts, push notification device sync and ad frequency limits |
- MetaClean on Google Play
- Case study: MetaClean: removing hidden photo and video metadata with Flutter
- MetaClean privacy policy
- All CarrySo apps on Google Play
Store figures last checked 9 October 2026.
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Services behind this product
Flutter app development
Flutter app development for Android and cross-platform apps: architecture, state management, Firebase, on-device processing, testing and store release.
Mobile app UI/UX design
Mobile app UI/UX design that ships: user flows, wireframes, screens and a Flutter design system for Android and iOS, with onboarding, dark mode and accessibility.
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