A small tool that does one job.

Journalists, lawyers, HR staff, freelancers and people selling things online are told to strip metadata before a file goes to a stranger. Most tools for it either need installing or ask you to upload the file to their server, which is the very thing a careful person hesitates at.

A browser can do the job by itself. FileSanity is that code, with a page around it that says plainly what it reads, what it removes and what it cannot do yet.

• Upload a file from this website. The hosted API is the one service that receives files, and it says so.
• Add advertising, a tracking cookie or anything that follows you to other sites.
• Call a file clean when part of it could not be read.
• Put cleaning a single file behind an account or a payment.

FileSanity is made by authegg, an independent studio based in the Philippines and registered with the DTI as AUTHEGG SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, a sole proprietorship. It is published under the MIT licence. The parsers are written for this project, with tests that check every claim on this site against real files. They are all in one repository on GitHub.

Payments for the paid plans go through Paddle, a merchant of record, which acts as the seller and handles tax and invoices.