StripPii vs Metadata Cleaner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StripPii
An offline tool to automatically detect and redact personal information from documents and images. It offers camera scanning for physical documents and supports various file types, ensuring your data remains private on your device.
- 100% Offline operation
- Automatic PII detection
- Camera scanning for physical documents
- EXIF metadata visibility and stripping
- DOCX and PDF metadata cleaning
- Manual redaction and custom rules
- Batch processing
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Redaction that actually removes the words. Most tools draw a black box over text that is still in the file. Copy and paste from the "redacted" PDF and the name is right there. StripPii removes the text itself - what comes out has nothing underneath the black. Nothing leaves your device. Ever. StripPii makes no network requests at all. It holds no network permission. There are no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no crash reporting. Your bank statements, medical letters and passport scans are read on your device and stay there - not as a policy, but because the app is technically incapable of doing otherwise. Finds what matters, in any language. Names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, passport and licence numbers, national IDs, card and account numbers, medical record numbers - and faces in photos, covered automatically. An on-device machine-learning model reads names and addresses that have no fixed shape to match, in any of the languages it was trained on. Exact patterns handle the things that do - the ones with checksums, like an IBAN or a National Insurance number. Each catches what the other cannot. On devices with Apple Intelligence, an extra on-device pass runs alongside. Also local. Also free. Detection is the same whether you pay or not. Every PII type. The AI. The lot. We are not going to find less of your personal data because you have not paid us. You decide before anything is redacted. Review every detection, with a label saying how it was found. Deselect anything that shouldn't go. Black out anything the app missed by hand. StripPii remembers what you confirmed, so the next document is faster. Free • PDF, text and images • Every PII type, on-device AI, automatic face detection • Manual redaction, review before redacting • One file at a time, watermarked export Pro - one-time purchase, no subscription • Clean export, no watermark • Whole folders at once - files, folders and ZIP archives • DOCX and multi-image documents • Strip hidden metadata: PDF properties, DOCX authors, tracked changes and comments • Remove EXIF - GPS location, device model, camera settings • Password-protected PDFs stay protected on the way out • Search & Mask, custom keywords and rules • Blur and frosted-glass redaction • Scan and redact with the camera (iPhone and iPad) One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Metadata Cleaner
Easily remove sensitive metadata like GPS location, camera model, and capture date from your photos before sharing. This app processes everything on your device, ensuring your privacy. A free version allows single photo cleaning, with a premium option for batch processing and an ad-free experience.
- Remove GPS location, camera model, and capture date
- On-device processing, no server uploads
- Create new, clean photo copies
- Batch processing (Premium)
- Choose specific metadata to remove (Premium)
- Ad-free experience (Premium)
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Remove GPS location, camera model, and capture date from your photos in one tap, before you share them. Everything happens on your device — nothing is ever uploaded to a server. ■ Great for - Stripping location data before posting to Instagram, X, or messaging apps - Sharing photos over AirDrop or iMessage without revealing where you live or work - Protecting your kids' privacy before sharing family photos - Anyone who just wants metadata gone, without learning a complex EXIF editor ■ Features - Select a photo and instantly see 3 lines: Location (GPS), Camera model, Date taken - One button — "Remove metadata" — clears everything - A green checkmark re-verifies on-device that nothing sensitive remains - Your original photo is never modified — a new, clean copy is created - Share directly from the completion screen, or save to your Photos library - Zero server upload, fully offline, minimal ads ■ Free / Premium Removing metadata from one photo at a time is free. Premium (lifetime/yearly/monthly) unlocks batch processing for multiple photos and removes ads. Note: Live Photos are copied as still images. The video portion (which may still contain location data) is not included. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hecuhecu.github.io/apps/photo-exif-cleaner/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: StripPii at none against Metadata Cleaner's shown. Metadata Cleaner's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. StripPii sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Metadata Cleaner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
StripPii ships an update fortnightly, Metadata Cleaner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StripPii | Metadata Cleaner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jolson Da Costa | hiroki kawamura |
Customer experience
StripPii
Metadata Cleaner
In-app purchases
StripPii
- StripPii Pro$24.99
Metadata Cleaner
- Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Premium (Lifetime)$56.99








