# Exifspot — Photo EXIF location viewer

> Photo EXIF location viewer (iPhone/iPad app by Robert Corbin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/exifspot/id6777542389 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Robert Corbin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: $3.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-10
- Data updated: 2026-09-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/exifspot/id6777542389/reviews.md

## What is Exifspot?

Exifspot is a calm, single-purpose viewer for everything your camera quietly writes into a photo: the EXIF, the TIFF tags, the GPS coordinates, the lens model, the exposure - and the position of the sun at the moment you pressed the shutter.

WHY EXIFSPOT
- Modern photo apps hide your camera's metadata behind a tiny "i" button or paywall it inside a $20 RAW editor. Exifspot is the focused, $0.99 alternative.
- Pick a shot, scroll the table, copy any field. Done.
- Built for the photographer who just wants to know "what was I shooting at?" without booting up Lightroom.

WHAT YOU GET
- Camera: make, model, software version.
- Lens: model name (with a 68-entry friendly-name dictionary that turns "EF50mm f/1.4 USM" into "Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Prime"), focal length in mm, and the 35-mm equivalent.
- Exposure: aperture as f/2.8, shutter as 1/250 s, ISO as ISO 400, EV bias, metering mode, white balance, flash status.
- GPS: precise coordinates with N/S/E/W signs, altitude (above or below sea level), compass heading - and a dark-mode map with a dropped camera-aperture pin showing exactly where the photo was taken.
- Sun at capture: azimuth and elevation calculated on-device using the NOAA solar-position algorithm. We tell you whether the moment was dawn, sunrise, morning, solar noon, afternoon, sunset, dusk, or night - and flag golden-hour and blue-hour shots automatically.
- File: pixel dimensions, megapixels, file size, color space, EXIF orientation, photo ID.
- Export: copy the metadata as JSON, copy a plain-text summary, or share a .json sidecar to any app.

HOW IT WORKS
- Tap "Pick a photo" - the iOS photo picker opens.
- Exifspot reads the bytes locally and shows the full metadata table.
- Recently inspected photos are saved to a local history (just the metadata snapshot, never the image bytes).

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
- Exifspot uses the system photo picker, so the app NEVER asks for full photo-library access. It only sees the bytes of the photos you explicitly pick.
- No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no network calls, no ads, no subscription.
- The sun position is computed offline using a published deterministic algorithm - no WeatherKit, no API.
- The PrivacyInfo manifest declares only the standard UserDefaults reason code (CA92.1) for storing your inspection history.

ONE-TIME PURCHASE
Exifspot is a single $0.99 purchase. No in-app purchases. No upsells. No "pro" tier. Everything above is the whole product.

GREAT FOR
- Photographers comparing their settings across a shoot.
- Bloggers documenting "what camera was that?" for a writeup.
- Hobbyists curious where their travel photos were taken.
- Anyone who wants to know if a beach shot really WAS taken at golden hour.

Open Exifspot, pick a photo, and finally see what your camera has been writing into every shot.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.1 — 2026-06-24

This update sharpens the interface and fixes a couple of small display issues for a cleaner, more reliable experience. iPhone is unchanged; still fully on-device.

### 2.0 — 2026-06-21

Exifspot 2.0 — a pro upgrade from EXIF viewer to a metadata, privacy, and library tool, still 100% offline.

• Full IPTC + serial parsing: caption, keywords, creator, copyright, camera/lens serial numbers, owner name, and extended GPS.
• Privacy Audit: a 0–100 exposure score and an itemized "this photo reveals…" list.
• Clean-copy export: write a copy with GPS, serials, and metadata stripped for safe sharing — pixels untouched.
• Sun & Moon at capture: sunrise/sunset, golden- and blue-hour windows, day length, and moon phase.
• Metadata sanity checks (missing GPS/date, timezone-vs-longitude mismatch, future dates).
• A new Library tab: top cameras and lenses, focal/aperture/ISO histograms, and a map plotting every geotagged shot.

Everything is read with on-device ImageIO and MapKit tiles. No network, no reverse-geocoding, no accounts.

### 1.2 — 2026-06-15

Shot Recipe - Exifspot now synthesises every available EXIF field into a plain-English paragraph explaining how the photo was taken: the technique (long exposure, fast-action freeze, shallow portrait, astrophotography), focal-length context with suitable subjects, the lighting situation (scene EV, golden/blue hour, light source tag, flash status), the depth-of-field character, and any noteworthy flags like HDR, digital zoom, or portrait scene mode. Tap "Copy recipe" to copy it to the clipboard.

Advanced EXIF panel - A new collapsible panel surfaces 11 tags that most EXIF viewers never show: Exposure Program (Manual, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Portrait, Landscape...), Scene Capture Type, Custom Rendered (flags HDR, panorama, in-camera portrait), Light Source, Brightness Value, Subject Distance Range (Macro, Close view, Distant view), Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation, Digital Zoom Ratio, and Gain Control. All values are decoded against the EXIF 2.3 specification (JEITA CP-3451C). The panel appears automatically when any of these tags is present.

Expanded lens dictionary: 126 -> 266 entries - New coverage for Canon RF primes and zooms (RF 16 mm, RF 28 mm, RF 50 mm STM, RF 85 mm Macro, RF 14-35 mm, RF 100-400 mm, RF 200-800 mm), Nikon Z primes (Z 20 mm, Z 24 mm, Z 28 mm, Z 40 mm, Z 85 mm S, Z 105 mm MC, Z 135 mm Plena) and zooms (Z 17-28 mm, Z 28-75 mm, Z 180-600 mm), Sony E-mount APS-C (11 mm, 15 mm G, 18-135 mm, PZ 10-20 mm), Sony FE telephoto and compact primes (12-24 mm GM, 300 mm GM, 400 mm GM, 55 mm Zeiss, 100 mm STF), Fujifilm XF/GF primes and macros (XF 27 mm pancake, XF 60 mm, XF 80 mm Macro, XF 8 mm fisheye, GF 45 mm, GF 110 mm), Sigma DN Contemporary (16/30/56 mm APS-C, 35/85 mm full-frame), Tamron (50-400 mm, 28-300 mm, 50 mm F1.4), Olympus/OM System (12 mm f/2, 60 mm Macro, 100-400 mm, 90 mm Macro PRO), Panasonic S and Leica M/SL, plus additional iPhone ultra-wide and telephoto camera strings.

New Settings toggles - "Shot recipe" and "Advanced EXIF panel" can each be turned off in Settings -> Display if you prefer the leaner view.

### 1.1 — 2026-06-14

Depth-of-field calculator — Exifspot now computes near limit, far limit, total DoF, and hyperfocal distance directly from your photo's EXIF aperture and focal length. Sensor format and circle of confusion are inferred from your camera make and model. Drag the subject-distance slider to explore any shooting distance.

GPS coordinate format toggle — Switch between decimal degrees (37.7749° N) and degrees-minutes-seconds (37° 46′ 29.6″ N) in Settings.

CSV history export — Tap the "…" menu in the History tab to export your full inspection history as a .csv file. Opens in Numbers, Excel, or any spreadsheet app. 25 columns covering camera, lens, exposure, GPS, dimensions, and more.

Expanded lens dictionary — 68 → 126 entries. Added Canon RF primes and zooms, Nikon Z lenses, Sony G-Master mirrorless, Fujifilm GFX, additional Olympus M.Zuiko PRO, Panasonic Lumix S, Sigma DN Art, Tamron Di III, and more iPhone models (14, 15, 16, 16 Pro Max).

### 1.0 — 2026-06-10

No release notes.

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