Simple Exif Viewer vs EXIF Inspector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Exif Viewer
Explore hidden details within your photos. This utility allows you to view Exif data, including GPS location and camera settings like shutter count. Discover the story behind your images.
- Read Exif data from photos
- View GPS location data
- Check camera shutter count
- Open images from gallery
- Explore image file information
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A simple app to read the Exif data from your photos This utility lets you open a image from your gallery to view its Exif data. There's lots of interesting information held in image files for you to explore. Some images have GPS data so you can see exactly where it was taken. Nikon also records the camera's shutter count in the Exif data.
EXIF Inspector
This tool allows photographers to quickly access and view detailed metadata embedded within their image files. It offers an elegant interface for seeing all prominent information at a glance, supporting various image formats and desktop-class features on Apple devices.
- Quick view of prominent EXIF info
- Information-dense interface
- Desktop-class features on iPad/Mac
- Share Extension for Photos App
- Privacy-focused, no tracking
- Supports JPEG, HEIC, PNG, TIFF, RAW
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A no-nonsense EXIF viewing tool for photographers in the field. - A handy quick view that shows you all the most prominent info at a glance; no scrolling through inscrutable tags to find the info you need - Elegant and Information dense interface that lets you see every detail in you photo's metadata - Supports desktop class features on iPad + Mac: multiple windows, open through drag & drop, keyboard shortcuts, etc. - Features a Share Extension to quickly view full EXIF from the Photos App - Respects your privacy: no 3rd party libraries or tracking. Uses the latest iOS APIs so you don't have to give access to your whole photo library. - Extremely small app size: while many EXIF viewers on the App Store are in the tens of megabytes or more, this one is only a few hundred kilobytes. - Support for JPEG, HEIC, PNG, TIFF, and many RAW formats
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EXIF Inspector at 5.0 against Simple Exif Viewer's 4.5. On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EXIF Inspector holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Simple Exif Viewer's written reviews are positive against 60% of EXIF Inspector's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Simple Exif Viewer ships an update every 4 months, EXIF Inspector every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Exif Viewer | EXIF Inspector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | sang reul juen | Héliographe, Inc |
Customer experience
Simple Exif Viewer
EXIF Inspector
In-app purchases
Simple Exif Viewer
No in-app purchases
EXIF Inspector
No in-app purchases
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