Xfill: Photo Metadata Remover

Your motion photos have a video inside them.
It knows where you were.

Every photo your phone takes carries hidden data — exact GPS coordinates, your phone's make and model, the second it was taken. If you shoot motion photos, that's not one file: it's a photo with a short video hidden inside it, and that video has its own copy of your location. Xfill is the only app that cleans it without deleting it.

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Xfill showing the hidden metadata found in a photo, then verifying it's been stripped clean
6 fields stripped
// the part other apps miss

A motion photo isn't one file. It's two.

If you have a Pixel or a Galaxy, your camera is probably shooting motion photos — the ones that move when you press and hold. That's a photo with a short video hidden inside it, and the video has its own, separate copy of your GPS location.

Every other metadata remover

Cleans the photo half and leaves the video's location sitting untouched inside the file — or "fixes" it by deleting the video outright, so your photo stops moving and you lose what you shot.

Xfill

Cleans the video's location and keeps the photo moving. As far as we know, nothing else does both.

Tool Video's location removed Video survives
Ordinary EXIF removers —
ExifTool & similar scripts —
Xfill
The best part

You never have to open Xfill.

Share any photo to Xfill from any app. It comes back clean and goes straight on to wherever you were sending it — Xfill – Clean & Share shows up as its own destination, right alongside Bluetooth and Mail.

  • Works from your Gallery, Messages, or any app with a Share button
  • No copy-paste, no extra app switch, no extra steps
  • Same free monthly allowance as cleaning inside the app
Android's own share sheet, with Xfill – Clean & Share listed as the first option
// what xfill removes

Six things your camera writes down without asking.

Your picture is never re-encoded — same image, same quality, same file, minus what it was telling people about you.

GPS location
Coordinates, altitude, direction, speed — enough to map your home, workplace, and daily routine.
REMOVED BY XFILL
Camera & device
Make, model, lens, and serial numbers — enough to link photos back to one physical device, and to you.
REMOVED BY XFILL
Timestamps
When it was taken, digitized, and edited. Matched against GPS, it's a precise log of where you were and when.
REMOVED BY XFILL
Author & copyright tags
Artist, copyright, owner, and comment fields some cameras and editing apps quietly write into the file.
REMOVED BY XFILL
The video inside a motion photo
That hidden clip carries its own separate GPS location — Xfill cleans it without deleting the video or breaking the motion effect.
REMOVED BY XFILL
Ordinary video files
The same GPS and device metadata lives in a plain video's container. Xfill remuxes it out — no re-encode, same quality.
REMOVED BY XFILL
// why it matters

It's rarely one field. It's the combination.

No single tag is usually the danger — it's what they add up to once enough of them line up.

Stalking & physical safety

Repeated GPS tags reveal home, workplace, and routine — enough for a stranger to predict where you'll be next.

Burglary timing

A vacation photo with location and time attached tells someone exactly when your home is empty.

Identity linking

Device serial numbers tie anonymous accounts back to one real person across platforms.

// the market for this

Private data is a commodity.

There are two buyers for what your photos leak — and they pay for the same reason.

Legal market

Ad networks, analytics firms, and “people-search” sites buy, merge, and resell profiles built from exactly this kind of metadata — usually disclosed only in the fine print of a terms-of-service agreement almost nobody reads. It's the business model behind a lot of “free” apps.

Dark market

When a database is breached or scraped, that data gets bundled and sold on dark-web marketplaces alongside stolen passwords. The buyers there are identity thieves and stalkers-for-hire, who pay specifically because a photo's metadata does half their targeting work for them.

Either way, the reason it sells is the same: data is valuable because it's predictive. Xfill's answer isn't to hide better — it's to make sure there's nothing to sell in the first place.

// the app itself

Three steps. All on your phone.

Xfill home screen
01

Pick or share a photo

From inside the app, or straight from your gallery's share sheet — Xfill shows up as a destination, like Bluetooth or Mail.

Xfill showing metadata found and verified clean
02

See it, then strip it

Xfill shows you what's hidden in a photo's EXIF data first — GPS, device, timestamp, and author fields. Inspecting is always free, whether or not you clean the photo.

Xfill Pro upgrade screen
03

Free, or own it forever

5 cleans a month, free, forever. Or unlock unlimited cleans and background automation for a one-time $6.99.

// runs everywhere android does

Phone, tablet, Chromebook, or an XR headset.

The same on-device engine, the same zero-upload guarantee, laid out properly for the screen you're on.

Phone 7″ / 10″ tablet Chromebook Android XR
Xfill running in its two-column large-screen layout on a Chromebook
// free and pro

One payment. Yours forever.

Free
$0
  • Clean photos one at a time, a set number every month
  • Unlimited inspection of any photo, always
  • Clean & Share from any app's share sheet
  • No ads, no accounts, no data collection
One-time · no subscription
Xfill Pro
$6.99one payment, forever
  • Your whole library in one pass — photos and videos
  • Auto-clean watches for new photos and cleans them with one tap when they arrive
  • Motion photo video cleaning and plain video file cleaning
  • Keeps your gallery's original date order