MetaLog appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for MetaLog is 73 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

MetaLog User Reviews

Name: MetaLog
Rating: 3.75 (12 reviews)

MetaLog

Christopher Curzio

📷 Photo & Video

Customer Experience

Positive experience70.0% of reviews

Neutral10.0% of reviews

Negative experience20.0% of reviews

~ Based on 10 written reviews from the US App Store.

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MetaLog appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for MetaLog is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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Mostly Great

I have been using this app for years, and it works very well, with one exception. With the recent update that changed the look of the app, a function seems to have been lost. I use cameras with interchangeable backs, and also large format cameras that use film holders. I can no longer have more than one roll (or sheet film type) going for any camera, which means that I have had to set up my film backs and film holders as the cameras. I preferred it the way it was.

Gary L. Quay

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hey there! Thanks for the note. As someone who also uses cameras with film backs/holders I'm very interested in addressing this problem for you. Can you please send me an email so we can see about getting this fixed for you? Thanks much.

When it worked it was good

Last year, I loved this app and it did everything I could ask for. The update made it unusable I can no longer select a camera and have multiple loaded rolls. The camera selection is just blank. I reached out to Apple and got no response. The developer webpage for support won’t load. I’m so disappointed because this was such a great app.

cinedependent

2 years ago

Great for data needs

My wife is a metadata analyst. She was jazzed when I told her about this app. Used it this weekend on a camping trip and it allowed me to keep great record of the shots I got.
I really like being able to take a reference photo for each frame. It would be awesome though if I could upload a reference photo instead. I’m using a light meter app that outputs an image with all the exposure data.

EricBloomer

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your support! In case you missed it, v3 now supports adding reference photos from the camera, your photos library, or both. Enjoy!

Absolutely the best app for shooting film

I’ve tried every single photo logging/EXIF app that I could run on my phone and this is hands-down the best option. Using this _will_ improve your photography, you’ll be able to learn what exposure you prefer with different film stocks and you can keep track of which lenses you use the most. I have a lot of gear and I switch cameras/lenses constantly, this allows me to very easily check what camera/lens/exposure/location a photo had, when I get the scans back six months later and can’t remember a thing. The developer added an option for CSV export and it’s great, I store it with the scans on my computer so I never lose the “EXIF” for a given roll.

A few suggestions: it would be nice to be able to individually specify 1/3, 1/2, or whole stops for exposure comp and shutter defaults per camera, and the same for lens aperture. I have some cameras that have exposure comp in 1/2 stops (Nikon FE, notably). Also, adding a “0” in the exposure comp presets would be nice.

Overall, I love this app. It’s easy to use, reliable, let’s me track many, many cameras and lenses, and has fields for all the relevant info a session could have. Well done.

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4 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for the kind words! You'll be happy to know that v3 now supports aperture range selection for lenses, available on a per-lens basis.

Nearly perfect

It’s nearly perfect but it seems it still has a while to get there.

Regarding ease of use when taking pictures it’s very convenient. It remembers the settings of the previous frames and allows for quick intro of custom values.

However when exporting the data, several things can be improved. First, few details of the gear are being exported (missing camera/lens make, model or serial number) even though the app supports them. Also names of exported columns are not default EXIF tags, making it a pain to attach those values to the scanned images using tools like ExifTool.

Alonso Dominguez

6 years ago

Nearly perfect...

Best app of its kind I’ve found for iOS. The only thing missing is the ability to add a reference shot for each frame, which I am hoping will be added in future.

Ming72UK

6 years ago

Something missing

I can’t add the lens for my Fujifilm GS645 Professional Fujica 6x4.5 Medium Format Rangefinder folding camera.
Admittedly I can’t change lenses, but in your app I can’t add the lens at all.
Is this something you can fix?
It uses a Fujinon 75mm f3.4 fixed lens.

San Diego Photographer

6 years ago

Response from developer

Please contact me via email and we’ll see if we can get this fixed. UPDATE: User never contacted me for support. No idea if this issue is real or user error.

No support, broken

I can add my cameras and I stumbled across the means to add film. But when adding film it defaults to today for the loading date. There doesn’t seem to be any way to edit it. Tapping on the date brings up a white box displaying nothing but select and cancel buttons. I can’t enter any data. Tapping the white box does nothing. And now that that’s in there, how do I put in an unload date. And the ultimate use remains a mystery, how to extract what I’ve put in so I can add exif data to a scanned image?

Pink Burner

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your note. First, the issue you mention regarding the white screen on the date selection is a known bug, and 1.5.3 was submitted to the app store over the weekend to correct it. It's still awaiting review. Second, you unload film by swiping left on the film roll, selecting "Edit" and adding an unloaded date. Finally, the CSV export function is used to extract the data from MetaLog so you can use your EXIF editor of choice to add the data to your film photo scans.

Great but there are improvements could be done

This app works great for me. Here are some suggestions that maybe good for developers to do.
1. Adding 1/3 stops options for ISO presets. I noticed there is a button for custom iso speed input, but it will be great if the iso presets can set as every 1/3 stop such as 100 125 160 200 etc. Because there are some films such as Ilford FP4 is at 125 as box speed, and there are photographers always shot their films at 1/3 overexposed or underexposed. So, it is more convenient for us to have a 1/3 stop (or have an option in the setting) as a preset ISO selection.
2. Adding 1/2 and 1/3 options for Aperture presets. There are quite amount of cameras have 1/2 stop for Aperture (not a lot has 1/3 tho). It will be great for us to have a 1/2 or 1/3 selection for presets on Aperture (maybe we can choose it when setup the lenses)
3. Adding more shutter speed on longer exposure on presets. Most analog cameras have up to 16s shutter speed. It is annoying to only have the shutter speed presets limited to 1s.

Phoduckrapher

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the suggestions! I will look at adding some of these ideas in a future release.

Like It

Works well for my 4x5. Just need the ability to take an image that is saved with the record. Thanks

SMKinChina

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the positive review as well as the suggestion. That's a feature that has been planned from the beginning, and will be available in an upcoming release. Appreciate the support!