Photo Date Changer
Fifty-odd photo tools that chain into one-click workflows — free, in the browser, with nothing uploaded.
Every photo carries a second, invisible file: the EXIF block recording when it was taken, on what, and — often — exactly where you were standing. Most of the time nobody looks at it. Then a scanned album imports with today's date, or a Google Photos export comes back with every timestamp flattened, or you're about to send someone a photo of your house with the coordinates still attached.
Photo Date Changer fixes that in a browser tab. Drop a photo in, change the date, download it. No signup, no watermark, nothing to install.
Nothing is uploaded
The whole thing runs on your device in JavaScript. Photos never leave the browser — they aren't sent to a server, stored, or seen, because there's no upload step for them to travel through.
That constraint shaped the product more than any feature did. It rules out server-side processing, which means the work happens on hardware I don't control and can't tune. What it buys is the only privacy claim worth making about a photo tool: not a policy promising I'll delete your files, but an architecture where I never receive them. For the specific job of stripping GPS coordinates out of an image, "we process this securely" was never going to be good enough.
What it does
The name is the original job, and dates are still the core of it: rewriting the EXIF timestamp, shifting a whole shoot by a fixed offset when the camera clock was wrong, and correcting the file dates the operating system shows. Most of the date work arrives as one of a handful of specific messes — a Google Photos Takeout, an AirDrop, a WhatsApp download, a new phone, a scanned album, a timezone or daylight-saving hour — so each of those has its own page and its own instructions rather than a generic form and good luck.
Around that has grown fifty-odd tools, because people were already there:
- Privacy — remove GPS, strip all metadata, blur every face, password protect a file, or just view what's in there before deciding.
- Formats — HEIC to JPG does the heaviest lifting, with PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, JFIF, and ICO in most of the directions you'd want.
- Editing — resize, compress, crop to an aspect ratio or a circle, rotate and flip, fix orientation, borders, rounded corners, filters, and .cube LUTs.
- Metadata — add or copy EXIF between files, add GPS deliberately, or export a whole folder's metadata as a CSV report.
- Analysis — colour breakdowns, palette extraction, OCR, QR code reading.
- Other formats entirely — images to PDF and back, video frames out, GIFs in, text and logo watermarks, background removal.
- Presets for where photos go — Instagram, Facebook, X, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, plus Etsy, eBay, Shopify, Amazon, and an app icon and favicon generator.
Anything that works on one photo works on a folder: drop the batch in and it comes back as a single ZIP.
Workflows
The tools are useful individually, but the reason to sign up is that they chain. A workflow is an ordered list of steps — resize, then rename, then strip location — that you name once and run in a single pass over a whole batch.
It's the part I'd point at, because it's where the difference shows. Doing an iPhone dump by hand is three tools and three round trips: HEIC to JPG, fix the sideways ones, rename everything by date taken. As a workflow it's one drop and one download, and it's still one drop next month.
There are thirteen ready-made chains to run or open and edit — iPhone photos, organized; Privacy scrub for sharing (blur every face, then strip all metadata); Etsy product shots (remove the background, place it on white, size it for the listing); Scan to PDF; Optimize for the web; Video to GIF. Steps that need a decision ask for it at run time, so "fix dates & rename" can prompt for the date instead of hard-coding one.
A workflow can be shared as a link, which needs no account on either end. Signing up is what makes one private and yours — saved to your account and editable whenever you like — along with your settings, so the fixes you worked out once are waiting for the next batch.
Free
Free, with no watermark. An account saves your workflows and settings, but nothing is held back behind it, and the tools themselves never ask who you are.