Barecopy Open the tool
Trust, but verify

Don't trust us that files stay on your device. Prove it.

Barecopy claims every file is processed in your browser and never uploaded. That's exactly the kind of claim you should check rather than believe. Here are three tests, from easiest to most thorough — each takes under a minute.

Test 1 · The airplane-mode test

Turn off the internet and watch it keep working

  1. Open barecopy.com and let the page finish loading.
  2. Switch off Wi-Fi / enable airplane mode — fully disconnect.
  3. Drop a file on the page and clean it.
It still works, offline. A tool that uploaded your file couldn't — there's nowhere for the file to go. The processing is happening on your device.
Test 2 · The network-tab test

Watch every request the page makes

This is the definitive test — it shows you exactly what leaves your browser.

  1. Open barecopy.com.
  2. Open Developer Tools: F12, or right-click → Inspect. Select the Network tab.
  3. Clean a file while the Network tab is recording.
  4. Inspect the list of requests. You'll see the page's own files (HTML, fonts, scripts) load once — and no request carrying your file's data.
The only network request Barecopy can make after loading is an optional licence check to the payment provider when you activate Pro — and no file data is ever part of it.
Test 3 · The source test

Read the code yourself

Barecopy is a single HTML page with its logic in plain sight — nothing is obfuscated or hidden on a server.

  1. On barecopy.com, view source: Ctrl+U (or Cmd+Option+U on Mac).
  2. Search for how files are handled. You'll find the file read into memory with FileReader and processed by in-page functions — no fetch or upload of file contents anywhere.
  3. The libraries it uses (for ZIP and PDF generation) are served from Barecopy's own domain under /vendor/, not a third-party CDN — so the page has no reason to talk to anyone else.
Everything that touches your file is code you can read, running in a tab you control.

Why we built it this way

Most "remove metadata online" tools ask you to upload the file to their server. That's backwards: you're removing metadata precisely because the file is sensitive, and uploading it to a stranger's machine is the opposite of careful. The only way to be sure a file wasn't kept, logged or leaked is for it never to leave your device in the first place. That's not a policy promise you have to trust — with the tests above, it's a fact you can confirm.

Open Barecopy and test it →