File X-Ray vs VerExif

A long-standing web tool for viewing and removing EXIF data from photos, which also accepts an image URL.

Everything attributed to VerExif below is a direct quote from its own site, linked and dated. Nothing here is our characterisation of their tool.

Where the file is processed

File X-Ray: In the browser tab. The file bytes are never sent anywhere.

VerExif has not said. The page does not say whether processing happens in the browser or on a server. It does accept a URL for a publicly reachable image, which a browser-only tool could not fetch for you, but that is an inference and not a statement they have made.

https://www.verexif.com/en/ — checked 2026-08-05

Whether a copy is kept

File X-Ray: It is never received, so there is nothing to keep.

“We don't store any copy of the image .”

https://www.verexif.com/en/ — checked 2026-08-05

Reading a file that is not public

File X-Ray: Any file you can open, including one that never touches the internet.

“The picture must be public.”

https://www.verexif.com/en/ — checked 2026-08-05

What VerExif does that this tool does not