Image & Conversion Tools

Open EXIF Viewer & Metadata Remover, upload the image, and it displays every embedded EXIF tag, camera make and model, timestamp, and GPS coordinates, with the GPS location openable directly in Google Maps so you can see exactly what you'd be sharing. Click Strip Metadata and it produces a clean copy of the same image with all of that data removed, then download it in place of the original before you post or send it. This matters most for photos taken on a phone, since phone cameras embed precise GPS coordinates by default; social platforms and messaging apps don't always strip that automatically. The whole process runs locally in your browser using the Canvas API, so the original image and its metadata never leave your device or reach an Instant Tools server.

Use /tools/image-converter when you want one flexible picker: drop in any image and choose the target format from a dropdown covering HEIC, AVIF, JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and BMP, with batch conversion for multiple files at once. Use a dedicated pair page, like /tools/image-converter/heic-to-jpg or /tools/image-converter/png-to-avif, when you already know exactly which conversion you need; these pages pre-select the source and target format, skip the picker step, and include format-specific guidance (for example, whether transparency survives the conversion, or why a particular pairing produces banding) that the general picker doesn't show. Both paths use the same in-browser conversion engine and the same privacy guarantee, so the choice is purely about whether you want a menu or a shortcut.

Image Converter handles HEIC/HEIF (the format iPhones save photos in by default), AVIF, JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and BMP. HEIC is decode-only, meaning you can convert HEIC to any of the other formats but can't convert back into HEIC, since encoding proper HEIC in-browser isn't practical; that's rarely a problem since HEIC exists mainly so iPhones save less storage, not because other apps want to receive it. AVIF support encodes via the browser's Canvas API where the browser supports it natively (Chrome and Firefox do), and falls back to a WebAssembly encoder in browsers that don't, so AVIF conversion works consistently across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge even though native AVIF encoding support varies between them.

No, a QR code generated with QR Generator never expires. The data you encode, a URL, WiFi credentials, a vCard contact card, or plain text, is embedded directly into the pattern of the image itself; scanning it just decodes those pixels, with no lookup against Instant Tools or any other server involved. That means the code keeps working offline, forever, with no dependency on our service staying online, unlike some third-party QR services that generate a short redirect link and can break years later if that service shuts down. The one caveat is content-dependent: if you encode a URL and that destination page later goes offline or changes, the QR code itself still scans correctly, it's just pointing at a link that no longer works the way it did when you made it.

There's no limit set by Instant Tools; the ceiling is your device's available browser memory, since EXIF Viewer, Image Converter, and Color Palette Generator all load and decode the image locally before processing it. Most phones and laptops handle typical photos, screenshots, and exported graphics up to 50 to 100 MB without any trouble. Very large files, high-resolution RAW camera exports, multi-layer TIFFs, or unusually large PNGs, can push a mobile browser's memory limits and may need a desktop browser with more available RAM to convert reliably. If a conversion stalls or the tab becomes unresponsive on a large file, retrying on desktop almost always resolves it.