winget install --id szTheory.exifcleanerAbout ExifCleaner
Desktop app to clean metadata from images, videos, PDFs, and other files.
What's new in 4.2.0
ExifCleaner 4.2.0 ExifCleaner 4.2.0 makes the first run calmer and keeps the packaged privacy toolchain current without adding background network activity. A clearer first run - The empty intake is now centered as one responsive composition instead of feeling split between copy and controls. - Choose files is the clear primary action, with Choose folder available beside it and drag and drop unchanged. - The intake explains whether ExifCleaner will save cleaned copies or modify originals, using the current setting rather than a generic promise. - Nested folder intake reports unsupported files and folders it could not read instead of silently losing that summary. - Help now includes New Releases, which opens the GitHub Releases page only when you click it. ExifCleaner does not poll for updates. Localization with provenance - Romanian is now fully supported. The 70 strings contributed in PR #297 are preserved exactly and credited to their contributor. - Every supported locale covers the first-run and New Releases vocabulary. - Translation records now distinguish existing community work from assisted drafts, track the English source each string translates, and expose stale or missing work without silently overwriting it. Runtime and release maintenance - The bundled ExifTool is updated from 13.50 to 13.59 for Unix and 32-bit-compatible Windows packages, with pinned upstream SHA-256 verification. - Packaged Electron disables RunAsNode, NODE_OPTIONS, and Node CLI inspection. Cookie encryption remains disabled because ExifCleaner does not need cookie storage. - Release automation...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 4.2.0 | Unknown | ExifCleaner 4.2.0 ExifCleaner 4.2.0 makes the first run calmer and keeps the packaged privacy toolchain current without adding background network activity. A clearer first run - The empty intake is now centered as one re... |
| 4.1.0 | Unknown | ExifCleaner 4.1.0 ExifCleaner 4.1.0 makes batch cleaning safer to understand and harder to misread. Clearer results - Each file now reports what actually happened: metadata removed, already clean, unchanged, or refused.... |
| 4.0.1 | Unknown | ExifCleaner 4.0.1 ExifCleaner 4.0.1 is a focused data-safety and release-reliability update. Data safety - Save as copy now preserves the original. The app writes to the actual collision-safe _cleaned path and Reveal fol... |
| 4.0.0 | Unknown | The first major release in 5 years — a complete rebuild from the ground up. Same privacy-first philosophy, everything else modernized. Highlights New Privacy Controls - Preserve photo orientation — Photos stay upright af... |
| 3.6.0 | Unknown | Security - Fix for XSS and Electron reverse shell vulnerabilities by sanitizing exiftool HTML output in the UI. To take advantage of this, an attacker would have had to write image metadata containing malicious script co... |
| 3.5.1 | Unknown | No notes |
| 3.5.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 3.4.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 3.3.1 | Unknown | No notes |
| 3.2.0 | Unknown | No notes |
| 3.1.0 | Unknown | No notes |