ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer vs EXIF Inspector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
Easily open, view, and extract images from popular brush, tool preset, and pattern file formats. Load files from cloud storage or directly from other apps. Export your extracted images to various destinations.
- View ABR, TPL, and PAT files
- Extract images from files
- Load files from cloud storage
- Export images to Photos, Mail, Files
- Drag and Drop support on iPad
- AirDrop support
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Here is a small but polished tool that allows you to open, view and extract images from abr (brushes), tpl (tool presets) and pat (patterns) files. Abr/tpl/pat are the most popular formats to share brushes and patterns, you can find thousands of them in Internet. Features: - support of all available versions of ABR, TPL an PAT files - displaying full Brush list or Stamp / Pattern items only - loading files from any location - both from Cloud Drive and any other cloud service - export selected images to Photos, Mail, Notes, Files etc - support of Drag and Drop on iPad - support of AirDrop - opening files copied to app folder using File Sharing on computer - opening files directly from Safari, Mail or any other app that include 'Open In' option
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 price: EXIF Inspector at Free against ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer's $1.99. EXIF Inspector also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (60% vs 37%). ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 4) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
EXIF Inspector is free to download; ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EXIF Inspector holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer has 53 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer's written reviews are positive against 60% of EXIF Inspector's.
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer ships an update every 22 months, EXIF Inspector every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer | EXIF Inspector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.1% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #189 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lucky Clan | Héliographe, Inc |
Customer experience
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
EXIF Inspector
In-app purchases
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
No in-app purchases
EXIF Inspector
No in-app purchases
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