MetaLume Press Kit
Everything you need to cover MetaLume: approved boilerplate, a fact sheet, and downloadable assets. All material on this page may be used in editorial coverage of MetaLume. For anything else, ask us.
About MetaLume
MetaLume is the friendly photo metadata scrubber for Mac. A photo can carry an invisible report — where it was taken, when, on what device, sometimes under whose name — and anyone it is sent to can read it. MetaLume shows people what their photos say, then exports a clean copy without those fields: magic-byte verification on the way in, a scrub through Apple ImageIO on the way out (PNG and TIFF pixels untouched; JPEG and HEIC are re-encoded), and a SHA-256 fingerprint of every clean copy. It is built for anyone who shares photos online — parents, people selling a home, anyone who would rather not publish their own coordinates.
MetaLume is built by ProfWorkBench, LLC and distributed exclusively through the Mac App Store. It runs sandboxed and handles your photos entirely on your Mac, with zero telemetry: the only network traffic MetaLume generates is Apple's StoreKit connection to the App Store, and no crash logs, usage data, or file metadata are ever transmitted to ProfWorkBench. Nothing on this website uploads your files. Inspection is free; a single purchase unlocks scrubbing for life. It is the approachable sibling of MetaWrite, the same company's forensic metadata suite.
Approved boilerplate
MetaLume — the friendly photo metadata scrubber for Mac. The photos you share can file a report on you. MetaLume shows you what's inside, then saves a clean copy without it.
MetaLume is a native macOS app that reveals and removes the hidden metadata inside photos — GPS pins, timestamps, device and owner fields in JPG, PNG, HEIC, and TIFF files. Free to inspect; a one-time purchase unlocks scrubbing for life. Every file gets a magic-byte header check and every clean copy a SHA-256 receipt; PNG and TIFF exports keep every pixel, while JPEG and HEIC are re-saved through Apple ImageIO (HEIC loses its HDR gain map). Sandboxed, zero telemetry — its only network connection is Apple's StoreKit connection to the App Store.
Fact sheet
| Product | MetaLume |
|---|---|
| Developer | ProfWorkBench, LLC |
| Platform | Native macOS — Mac App Store exclusive |
| Pricing | Free to inspect · $1.99 one-time lifetime unlock for scrubbing — not a subscription |
| Formats | JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF. For batch, PDF, video and 50+ more formats, see MetaWrite. |
| Languages | 15 — English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Privacy | Sandboxed, zero telemetry — no accounts, no analytics, your photos never upload; the only network traffic MetaLume generates is Apple's StoreKit connection to the App Store |
| Launched | May 2026, on the Mac App Store (renamed MetaLume in July 2026) |
| Links | getmetalume.com · Mac App Store · profworkbench.com |
Brand assets
Click any card to open the file, then save it: the app icon is a 1024 px PNG, the social card a 1200 × 630 PNG, and the two product screenshots are 1600 × 1251 WebP images. These assets may be used unmodified in editorial coverage of MetaLume; please do not recolor, distort, or recompose the app icon.
Press contact
Press and review inquiries go through the ProfWorkBench support page: profworkbench.com/contact/. Mention your outlet and your deadline — review requests are prioritized.