Comparison

SnapSafe vs Exiv

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SnapSafe

This app provides a secure camera experience by capturing photos locally, encrypting them, and stripping metadata. It offers robust privacy features like face blurring, PIN-locked galleries, and optional location tagging, ensuring your images remain private.

Highlights
  • Local photo capture
  • Full encryption of stored photos
  • Metadata stripping
  • Automatic face blurring
  • PIN-locked gallery
  • Granular location data control
  • Poison Pill deletion feature
Features
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SnapSafe is a camera app that keeps every pixel—and every byte of data—exactly where it belongs: on YOUR device. Why SnapSafe? We capture photos locally, encrypt everything in private storage, let YOU decide if GPS tags are added, and strip out tell‑tale metadata automatically. Free and Open Source, forever. We NEVER phone home or talk to servers, slurp analytics or usage stats, sprinkle ads or trackers in the code, or read files outside our sandbox. Key Features: • Zero‑Leak Design – The app makes no internet connections what so ever. Not even backups to iCloud. • Fully Encrypted – Shots are written to app‑private storage using strong encryption. • Metadata Scrub‑A‑Dub – EXIF and other identifiers are wiped the instant you hit Share. • Anti-Doxing – Automatically Blur faces before sharing photos • PIN‑Locked Gallery – A separate PIN stands between curious thumbs and your photos. • Granular Location – Add coarse, fine, or zero location data—your call. • 100% Open Source – Auditable code in plain sight. • Poison Pill – Set a special PIN, that when entered, appears to work normally but actually deletes your existing photos. • Decoy Photos – Select innocuous decoy photos, these will be preserved when your Poison Pill is activated. That way your Gallery is not suspiciously empty. Privacy Policy: We collect nothing.

About

Exiv

Easily view, edit, and clean photo metadata. Create shareable cards with photo details and explore your geotagged images on a map. Offers batch processing and RAW file support for photographers.

Highlights
  • View full EXIF data with explanations
  • One-tap privacy cleaning (strip GPS, device info)
  • Create social-ready share cards
  • 3D Card Studio for creative photo presentations
  • Batch EXIF editing and cleaning (Pro)
  • Map geotagged photos
  • RAW file support
Features
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Exiv is the cleanest way to view, edit, batch-clean and map your photo metadata — built for photographers who care about every shot, and anyone who cares about privacy before they share. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — • View full EXIF for any photo: camera, lens, exposure, GPS, technical fields. 100+ tags decoded with a plain-English explanation for each one. Tap the ⓘ icon and finally understand what "f-stop", "focal length 35mm equivalent" or "white balance" actually mean. • One-tap privacy clean. Strip GPS, device serial, owner name and creator fields. Saves a clean copy — your original photo is never touched. • Share cards. Three editorial templates (Minimal White, Film Black, Magazine) generate 1080×1350 social-ready cards with the shot's key parameters. Drop them straight into Instagram or X. • 3D Card Studio. Pull the subject out of every shot with on-device segmentation, then drop it onto one of 11 editorial templates — Polaroid, Journal, Museum, Magazine, Window, Ticket Stub, Float, Newspaper, Postcard, Film Strip, Minimal. Two modes: Pop Out lets the subject extend above the card edge for the dramatic 3D look; Within keeps the subject inside the frame with a clean lift. Tune subject scale, shadow depth and background (Blur / Solid / Paper / Gradient / Custom color). Each export embeds your shot's EXIF as a typeset badge — share-ready 4:5 cards, no cloud. • Batch power tools (Pro): view up to 500 JPEG / 100 RAW at once, export to CSV or JSON for client delivery, batch-write author / copyright / description, shift capture times by ±hours for time-zone fixes, and bulk-clean privacy in one pass. • Map & favorites. Every geotagged photo lands on an OpenStreetMap layer with automatic clustering. Filter by date, lens or camera (Pro), and group your best shots into folders that live in Exiv's sandbox — so you can safely delete the originals. • RAW friendly. Native support for ARW / CR2 / CR3 / NEF / RAF / DNG via on-device parsers — no upload, no cloud. • Format convert. Hop between JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP and RAW. Free users get one single-photo conversion per day; Pro removes the limit and unlocks batch. — PRIVACY FIRST — Everything runs on your device. Exiv never uploads your photos, your metadata, or your location. We do not require an account. We do not show ads. We do not use IDFA. Anonymous crash and feature-usage analytics can be turned off in Settings at any time. — FREE vs PRO — Free forever: single-photo viewing, cleaning, share cards, map browsing, one folder of up to 20 favorites, 1 free format conversion per day. Pro unlocks: every batch tool (view / export / clean / edit), map filters & timeline, unlimited favorites & folders, unlimited format conversions, future Pro features. Pricing: $4.99/month, $24.99/year, or $69.99 lifetime. No free trial — the Free tier is the trial. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled in your App Store account at least 24 hours before the period ends. — BUILT FOR — Wedding & event photographers delivering hundreds of shots to clients. Travel photographers who want their geo-history back on a map. Phone photographers who want to share an image without sharing their home address. Photography nerds who actually want to know what every EXIF tag means. — SUPPORT — Questions, bugs, feature requests: vooxxoow@gmail.com Privacy policy: https://www.aivoxx.com/exif/privacy.html Terms of service: https://www.aivoxx.com/exif/terms.html

Screenshots

SnapSafe4 screens
Exiv4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SnapSafe at none against Exiv's 4. Exiv's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Exiv sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. SnapSafe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SnapSafe against 5.0 for Exiv. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SnapSafe ships an update every 10 days, Exiv fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SnapSafe versus Exiv: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnapSafeExiv
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam Brown晶 黄

In-app purchases

None

SnapSafe

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Exiv

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Pro$2.997 Days
  • Monthly Pro$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro1 Month trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetiom Pro$19.99

Questions

Is SnapSafe free?
SnapSafe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Exiv free?
Exiv is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SnapSafe or Exiv?
SnapSafe and Exiv are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do SnapSafe or Exiv have ads?
Neither SnapSafe nor Exiv shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SnapSafe or Exiv?
SnapSafe ships an update every 10 days, and Exiv fortnightly. Most recently, SnapSafe was updated on October 30, 2026 and Exiv on November 2, 2026.

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