A Scrambled Exif alternative that works everywhere
What Scrambled Exif is
Scrambled Exif is a free, open-source Android app by Juan Garcia Basilio. It hooks into Android’s share sheet: you share a photo, pick Scrambled Exif, and it deletes the EXIF data before passing the picture on to whatever app you were sending it to.
It is a focused, well-liked tool that makes no network connections at all. If you are on Android and metadata is all you need removed, it is genuinely hard to beat for convenience — it lives exactly where the sharing decision happens.
What Scrambled Exif does well
- Free and open source, on F-Droid as well as Google Play
- Sits in the Android share sheet, so it is zero extra steps at the moment you share
- Makes no network connections whatsoever
- Deletes metadata rather than obscuring it, and can rename files as well
Where it stops
- Android only — nothing on iOS, desktop or the web
- Metadata only: it does not look at what is visible in the picture
- No faces, no barcodes, no card or ID numbers in the frame
- Nothing for documents — Word, PDF or spreadsheets
- It strips without showing you what was there, so you do not learn what the photo was carrying
Side by side
| Scrambled Exif | IncognitoShare | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Android only | Any modern browser — desktop, iOS, Android |
| Convenience at the moment of sharing | In the Android share sheet — one tap | Open a page and drop the file in |
| Removes photo metadata | Yes | Yes |
| Shows you what was found first | No — it strips silently | Yes, with masked previews and what each thing could be used for |
| Finds things visible in the picture | No | Card numbers, IBANs, passport MRZ, QR codes and barcodes |
| Finds and covers faces | No | Yes, optional, on device |
| Word documents | No | Yes — author, comments, tracked changes, hidden text |
| PDF and Excel | No | Built and tested, but not switched on in the website yet |
| Open source | Yes | No — the detection library is not public today |
| Price | Free | Free tier; paid plans for higher limits |
The bolded cell is the one we think wins each row — including the rows we lose.
Which should you use
If you are on Android, you only care about metadata, and you want it to happen without thinking — keep Scrambled Exif. It is good at that, it is free, and the share-sheet integration is something a website cannot match.
Come here when you are not on Android, when you want to see what a photo was carrying rather than strip it blind, when the problem is a face or a card number in the picture rather than a tag in the file, or when the file is a document rather than a photo.
They are not really the same tool. One is a stripper; this is a checker that also cleans.
Questions
No, the detection library is not public today. If that is a requirement for you, that is a real reason to prefer Scrambled Exif and we are not going to argue you out of it. What we do instead is make the privacy claim testable: an automated test records every request the page makes while scanning a real file and fails if any carries the bytes.
No. The check runs in a web worker in your browser, using a library that cannot make a network request — the lint configuration bans fetch, XMLHttpRequest, WebSocket and every node module in that package.
Sensibly, yes. Scrambled Exif for routine Android sharing, this for anything where you want to see what is in the file first, or where the file is not a photo.
No — it is an EXIF tool and does not claim to. That is the main functional gap between the two, and it is the reason this site exists: the data in the file and the data in the picture are different problems.
Sources
Everything said above about Scrambled Exif comes from its own documentation, so you can check it: