Sanitizr is a powerful Android utility app for cleaning metadata and timestamps from various file types including images, videos, documents, PDFs, archives, and ebooks.
Your files, your privacy. Sanitizr helps you remove hidden data from files before sharing them.
- Scan folders like Downloads, Pictures, and Documents
- Image metadata removal (EXIF: GPS, camera info, etc.)
- Video/audio stream sanitization via FFmpeg (removes tags)
- PDF metadata stripping
- Document metadata cleanup (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ebook sanitization (EPUB .opf metadata)
- Archive support
- ZIP (.zip)
- TAR (.tar)
- GZ (.gz)
- BZ2 (.bz2)
- XZ (.xz)
- Simple UI for selecting and sanitizing files in bulk
Sanitizr parses file types using known extensions and applies file-type-specific cleaning:
- Images: Clears EXIF tags using
ExifInterface - PDFs: Uses
OpenPDFto remove PDF info - Office Docs:
Apache POIstrips metadata - Videos/Audio: Leverages
FFmpegKitto drop metadata - EPUBs: Parses and clears
<metadata>from OPF - Archives: Extract → sanitize → recompress using
Commons Compress
| Type | Extensions |
|---|---|
| Images | jpg, jpeg, png, gif, webp, bmp, tiff, heic |
| Videos | mp4, mov, mkv, avi, webm, 3gp |
| Audio | mp3, flac, wav, ogg, m4a, wma |
| PDFs | |
| Docs | doc, docx, pptx, xlsx, odt, rtf, csv, txt |
| Ebooks | epub, mobi, azw3, fb2 |
| Archives | zip, tar, gz, bz2, xz |
- Modular sanitization functions (
sanitizeImage(),sanitizePdf(), etc.) - Archive-safe operations with temp files
- Non-destructive fallback if sanitization fails
- Scans
/Download,/Documents,/Picturesby default
Modern clean UI
File list, selection controls, and progress bar
Easy to customize layout with ConstraintLayout
Sanitizr works offline, never uploads files, and does not retain data after processing.
- Clone repo
- Open in Android Studio
- Run on device (or emulator with file access)
MIT License.
- Share sanitized files directly
- Add support for cloud files (MEGA)
- Deep scan for nested archives or attachments
- 👁Preview metadata before and after
Made with ❤️ by: aMiscreant to help people control their data. >