Convert and compress photos between JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC and TIFF, and read, edit or remove their metadata, location included. Everything runs in your browser: your photos are never uploaded.

Prefer it without the site around it? Open the Image Converter on its own page.

What it does

Converts to JPEG, WebP, AVIF, PNG and TIFF. It also opens HEIC photos from iPhones, GIF and BMP.
Compresses: move the quality slider and see the real file size and the real picture, side by side with the original. Or give it a target, such as 500 KB, and it finds the best quality that fits. PNG can be reduced to 256 colours or fewer, which often makes graphics much smaller.
Resizes, rotates and mirrors. Photos are only ever made smaller, never stretched.
Shows what a photo gives away: where it was taken, the camera and its serial number, the date, a hidden preview, an attached motion photo video. Every tag can be read in full.
Removes or edits metadata: remove the location only, or everything. Title, description, author, copyright, keywords, date, location and camera can be edited, and a change reaches every copy in the file (EXIF, XMP and IPTC), so no old value stays behind.
Changes metadata without touching the image: with “Same file”, JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and HEIC photos keep every pixel exactly as it was, because nothing is encoded again.
Handles many at once: drop several photos or a whole folder, set one author or copyright for all of them, and download everything as one ZIP. A file that fails does not stop the rest.
Checks the result: the new file is read back before you download it, so what it reports is what you get.

Which format should I pick?

To open anywhere: JPEG. This is also the answer for an iPhone HEIC photo that someone cannot open.
For a website: WebP, or AVIF for the smallest files if you can wait for it to encode.
For logos, screenshots and anything with transparency: PNG, or WebP.
For print and archive software that asks for it: TIFF, uncompressed, so expect a very large file.

Saving a JPEG again costs a little quality each time, so keep your originals. A photo saved as PNG keeps every pixel, but is usually several times larger than the JPEG it came from.

Why remove metadata?

A phone photo can hold the exact place it was taken, to within a few metres, along with the time and the device. Many social networks strip this when you post, but an email, a messaging app sending the original file, or your own website usually does not. Removing the location before you share a photo takes one click here, and the photo itself stays as it was.

Does anything get uploaded?

No. Your photos are read, converted and handed straight back on your own device, and andu.ro never receives them. The one link that leaves the page is “open in a map”, which sends the coordinates to OpenStreetMap only if you click it.

What it does not do

It cannot save HEIC, only open it and clean or edit its metadata in place.
It does not open camera raw files such as CR2, NEF or ARW.
Converting produces standard 8-bit sRGB images. Wider colour is converted to fit, HDR layers are not carried over, and only the first frame of an animation is kept. The tool says so before you convert whenever one of these applies. “Same file” keeps all of them, except that removing the location also removes attached extras such as a motion photo video, which can hold their own location.

How it works

The encoders run as WebAssembly in a background thread: MozJPEG, libwebp, libavif and oxipng, through jSquash. HEIC is read with libheif and TIFF with UTIF.js. The metadata code is written for this tool and works directly on the structure of each file format, which is how it can change metadata without touching the image.

Each codec downloads only when it is needed, between about 100 KB and 2 MB, and then your browser keeps it. It needs a browser from 2023 or later, on a computer or a phone.