A metadata tool that tells you what it cannot do
Most tools in this category promise to remove the AI label. That is not a thing any of them can promise, and the gap between the promise and the product is where users lose an afternoon.
What it does
RemoveAITags reads the container of an image or video, reports every provenance marker it finds, and produces a copy without them. C2PA credentials, XMP packets, EXIF blocks, IPTC attribution, PNG text chunks holding prompts and workflows, and the metadata boxes inside MP4 files.
What it does not do
- It does not remove pixel watermarks such as SynthID. Nothing in a browser does.
- It does not change a post that is already published.
- It does not affect what a visual classifier concludes about an image.
- It does not make a disclosure for you when one is genuinely owed.
Why it runs in your browser
A metadata cleaner that uploads your file has to be trusted with the file. This one does not, because there is no upload endpoint to send anything to. Every parser here is plain TypeScript running in your tab. Turn off your network connection and the tool still works - that is the shortest possible proof, and it is why the architecture was chosen before the design was.
Why the output is not re-encoded
Re-compressing a photo to strip its metadata is the lazy implementation, and it costs quality on every file for no reason. JPEG, PNG, WebP and MP4 all keep metadata in segments that are separate from the media, so the correct operation is a container rewrite: copy the compressed data untouched, drop the metadata segments, keep the colour profile. HEIC and AVIF are the exception - their metadata cannot be separated from the image structure - and the tool says so on each converted file rather than quietly re-encoding everything.
Check a file before you post it
The inspector is read-only and takes a second. If it comes back clear and a label still appears, the cause is not in the metadata -- and you will know that instead of guessing.