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KillEXIF for Mac
It is in development. There is nothing to download yet and no date to promise — this is what it is going to be.
The website will not be crippled
KillEXIF in your browser cleans the same files the app will clean, and it will keep doing it free and whole. A privacy tool that hides features to push you into paying loses the very thing that makes it credible.
What the app charges for is what a browser cannot give:
- 01
Cleaning from Finder
Through the context menu, without opening a page.
- 02
Watched folders
Anything dropped in gets cleaned on its own.
- 03
No size ceiling
A browser has a memory limit; a native app does not.
- 04
Profiles and batches
Save what goes and what stays, then apply it to thousands of files.
The same engine and the same rules
Nothing is re-encoded. The metadata blocks are removed and the compressed data is left untouched, byte for byte, exactly as here.
Nothing leaves your machine. And whatever cannot be cleaned safely is said out loud, instead of handing the file back untouched and calling it clean.
The engine is being rewritten in Swift: it is not this website wrapped in a window. To keep the two implementations from drifting apart, there is a conformance suite built on real files that both have to pass, case by case.
How it will be paid for
One payment. No subscription, no account, nothing that expires.
The price will be named when there is something to buy. Announcing it earlier would be one more promise with no product behind it.
Where it stands
macOS first, and finished before anything else starts. Windows, iPad and iPhone will be looked at afterwards: today there is neither a commitment nor a date.
There is no mailing list to join, because this site neither sends nor receives anything — the same policy that keeps your files from leaving. When the app ships, it will be announced on this page.
- Specification and conformance suiteDone
- Engine in Swift: fourteen formatsDone
- macOS app: window and verificationDone
- Finder extensionDone
- Watched folders and large batchesIn progress
- Release