ScrubShareYour photos know where you live.
Every photo and document you share carries hidden baggage — GPS coordinates, your device, your name, the exact minute. ScrubShare shows you all of it, then removes it. On your device. Nothing collected.
Download on theApp StoreiPhone & iPad · Inspecting is free, forever
What's hiding in your files
The file is the message. So is everything stapled to it.
Cameras and office apps write details you never see into every file. Post a listing photo, send a PDF, share a Word doc — it all goes along for the ride.
Photos
- Exact GPS coordinates
- Camera and lens serial numbers
- Owner name
- A hidden thumbnail of the uncropped shot
PDFs
- Author and title
- The app and OS that made it
- Creation and edit timestamps
- Embedded XMP history
Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Author and "last modified by"
- Your company name
- Total editing time and revision count
- Custom properties and a page thumbnail
How it works
See it. Scrub it. Prove it.
Right from the share sheet, in any app. No accounts, no uploads, no waiting.
Inspect — free
Open any photo, PDF or Office file and see exactly what it reveals, ranked by how identifying it is. The map preview only loads if you tap it.
Clean
One tap removes it. JPEG and HEIC are cleaned losslessly — the container is rewritten around your untouched pixels. No re-encoding, no quality loss.
Verify
Every clean ends with a before/after report. If something couldn't be removed, ScrubShare tells you instead of pretending.
Who it's for
Anyone who shares a file with someone they don't fully know.
Which is everyone, most days.
Journalists and their sources
The documents make the story credible. The photo's metadata can identify who took it. Scrub before it's published.
Marketplace sellers
That listing photo was taken in your living room — and it says so, to within a few meters. Strangers don't need your address to buy a camera.
Everyday sharing
School photos, screenshots, the new house. Post the moment, not the coordinates and the time you're usually home.
Beyond metadata
The honest part: sometimes the picture itself is the leak.
Tools now exist that guess where a photo was taken from what's in it — signs, storefronts, architecture. No metadata cleaner can stop that, and we won't pretend otherwise.
What ScrubShare does about it
- Hide Background — keeps the people, pixelates everything else, in one tap
- On-device face detection plus box and brush tools
- Redactions are burned into the pixels — never a removable overlay
- Always optional: if the background is fine to share, just clean the metadata
What it doesn't claim
- No invisible "AI cloaking" layers — they don't survive recompression, and nobody can verify they work
- Tracked changes and comments in Office files are reported, not removed
- A few rare PDF metadata blocks can't be fully removed yet — you'll be told when that happens
The privacy promise
We can't see your files. By construction.
ScrubShare contains no networking code of its own — a check enforced on every build. There's no server to send anything to. This website follows the same rule: no analytics, no cookies, no trackers.
Pricing
One honest price.
No tiers, no add-ons, no trial that quietly converts.
Inspect
- See everything any file reveals
- Photos, PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Unlimited files
ScrubShare Pro
- Unlimited cleaning, single or batch
- Redaction and Hide Background
- Always-clean sharing from the share sheet
- Cancel anytime