Photowerks vs ShutterFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Photowerks
Effortlessly organize your photos and videos into dynamic Smart Albums based on criteria like date, location, or media type. Automatically add new photos that match your album settings. Quickly find any image with intelligent sorting and detailed metadata viewing.
- Create Smart Albums by date, location, media type
- Automatic photo addition to Smart Albums
- View photos on a map with location details
- Display full EXIF metadata
- Create Apple Photos albums from Smart Albums
- Automatic date and location captions for sharing
- iCloud sync across devices
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Photowerks makes it easy to organizes and view your photos and videos via Smart Albums – create albums based on criteria you specify, such as: date, location, media type, camera type. New photos that meet an album's criteria are automatically added to the album. From the magical milestones to the utterly mundane, you can now quickly find, organize and create albums using photo metadata attributes such as date, location (city, state, country), camera make and camera model, containing Apple Photos album, and matching keywords (for photos tagged with keywords.) Photowerks seamlessly scans your existing camera roll and then groups and displays your photos by when or where you snapped them. No more scrolling or guessing to find that exact photo! Use the photo detail viewer to see the exact location a photo was taken on a map, in addition to other details such as aperture, focal length and lens model, and containing Apple Photos album. You can also view the full, raw EXIF metadata for each photo. Benefits: • Smart Albums - easily create and edit multiple albums. When viewing a Smart Album, it's easy to create an Apple Photos album based on the Smart Album contents. • Serves as a photo timeline and diary of your life: Your daily life in pictures, displayed in multiple view formats. • Takes the guesswork and scroll-time out of finding a specific photo. • Makes creating time- and/or location-oriented mobile photo albums a snap. • Lets you easily share, post and tweet your photos -- includes the added bonus of automatic date and location captions for every photo. • Dropbox support: Upload your photos to any Dropbox folder. Features: • Automatically catalogues photos by date, media type, city, state, country, camera make, or camera model.** • Automatically tags date and location captions for every photo.** • Photos are displayed in both grid or list views. • Tap photo to view date taken and location (city, state, or country) • Sharing capability for email, Facebook, and Twitter (with photo captions listing photo date and location) • Create new albums in the Apple Photos app. • View photo details with standard pinch-to-zoom gestures and swipe to view previous/next photo. • Sync any smart albums your create across all your devices with built-in iCloud sync. **Location stamp only works if Location Services were enabled on your device camera when you took the photo.
ShutterFlow
Streamline your photo and video workflow with this powerful file transfer tool. Easily copy or move media from various sources to multiple destinations, with smart organization and duplicate detection. Perfect for photographers and videographers on the go.
- Ingest from SD cards, cameras, and folders
- Copy to multiple destinations simultaneously
- Smart file organization by date or structure
- Flexible file renaming options
- Duplicate detection and skipping
- Pause, resume, and cancel transfers
- Transfer history and session reruns
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ShutterFlow is a fast, focused file transfer tool built for photographers and videographers. Copy or move photos and videos from SD cards, cameras, or any folder to your external drives, NAS, or device storage — with smart organization, duplicate detection, and checksum verification. INGEST FROM ANYWHERE Select one or multiple source folders, SD cards, or camera volumes. On Mac, removable drives are detected automatically. On iPad, connect external storage via USB-C and pick your source with the native file browser. COPY TO MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS Send files to several locations in a single operation. Each destination can have its own file type filter (Images, Videos, RAW, or All) and date filter, so the right files go to the right place every time. SAVE TO DEVICE Use your iPhone or iPad as a portable backup hub. Copy files to on-device storage, then offload to an external drive later — perfect for shoots in the field when your main drive isn't available. SMART FILE ORGANIZATION Choose how your files are organized at the destination: • Keep Original Structure — preserves your source folder layout • Creation Date — auto-sorts into YYYY-MM-DD folders based on file dates • Ingest Date — groups everything by today's date FLEXIBLE FILE NAMING Rename files during transfer with six built-in naming conventions, or create your own custom template with date, time, sequential counter, prefix, and separator options. DUPLICATE DETECTION Files are compared by name and size. Re-run the same ingest anytime — ShutterFlow skips what's already there. Choose to skip, overwrite, or overwrite only if newer. COPY OR MOVE Two side-by-side buttons for every operation. Copy keeps your originals. Move deletes source files after a successful transfer — useful for clearing SD cards or offloading from device storage. PAUSE, RESUME, CANCEL Full control over active transfers. Pause mid-copy and resume right where you left off, or cancel safely at any point. TRANSFER HISTORY Every session is recorded with source, destination, file list, and timestamps. Rerun any past session with one tap. SUPPORTED FILE TYPES • Images: JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, HEIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF, WebP • Videos: MOV, MP4, M4V, AVI, MKV, MTS, M2TS, and more • RAW: CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, ORF, RW2, DNG, RAF, SRW, PEF PRO FEATURES (yearly subscription): • Workflows — save multi-destination presets and run complex ingestions with one tap • Checksum Verification — MD5 hash comparison after every file copy to guarantee integrity • Auto-Offload — automatically copies files from device storage to your external drive when it becomes available • Custom Naming Templates — build your own file naming patterns with prefix, date, time, counter, and more • Offline Queuing — queue destinations that are temporarily unavailable and sync later ShutterFlow is a universal app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. No account required. No cloud. Your files stay yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.pixelhauz.net/shutterflow/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.pixelhauz.net/shutterflow/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShutterFlow at 5.0 against Photowerks's 4.0. Photowerks's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 2) and device support. On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Photowerks sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and ShutterFlow sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShutterFlow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Photowerks has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Photowerks | ShutterFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sorth LLC | Divya Kunthuru Reddy |
In-app purchases
Photowerks
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
- Unlock Premium$2.99
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- Large Tip$4.99
- Mega Tip$9.99
ShutterFlow
- ShutterFlow Pro Yearly$9.991 Year









