Exif Purge

Exif Purge is a feather-light application designed to strip off all EXIF metadata from pictures obtained from digital cameras. It offers support for JPEGs only, and contains just a basic set of options for carrying out tasks in no time.
The tool's capable of removing EXIF information from two or more pictures at the same time. This is a method that some people use to reduce the size of the images, especially when talking about numerous items, in order to free up space and make room for new files, whether you want to keep them stored on the hard drive or removable devices, upload them online, or send them to someone else via email or other means.

Remove EXIF data from images to reduce file size

Bundled in a simple interface made from just one window that reveals all options put at your disposal, Exif Purge invites you to select the JPEG images you want to decrease in size by resorting to the built-in file browser.
You can add as many files as you want to the task list, as well as select all items from a folder, knowing that they are automatically filtered by the app to exclude any unsupported extensions.

Create new pictures in any folder

The displayed information reveals the full path and format of each file. Once you've specified a new directory for storing the new files in, you can start the EXIF cleaning operation with the click of a button. On task completion, you can check out the icon next to each path in the list, which indicates whether or not the file was successfully processed.
Worth noting is that the original files remain untouched, so there's no need to create backups prior to using Exif Purge.

No setup necessary, besides .NET Framework

The tool's not wrapped in a setup kit. Instead, it consists of a single executable file that can be copied to a preferred location on the disk or stored on a pen drive to directly run it on any computer and process JPEGs.
Just keep in mind that .NET Framework must be installed, since it was built with the aid of this platform. On the other hand, it doesn't update the system registry with new entries, nor does it create new files on the disk without asking for permission.

Evaluation and conclusion

To wrap it up, Exif Purge facilitates a simple and straightforward solution for removing all EXIF information from JPEG photos. CPU and RAM usage was minimal in our tests, while tasks were carried out swiftly. However, it doesn't have richer features, such as previewing the EXIF details and handpicking the tags to remove while preserving the rest.