Exif vs Positive View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Exif
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Exif-Max is an app built to help you organise your analogue photos. It is the simplest way to capture all metadata whilst out shooting, ensuring all data is accurate and personal to every photo you take. 3 Simple Steps: • Shoot analogue and capture metadata with Exif-Max. • Pair data with scans of your photos with Exif-Max: The Lab. • Enjoy your analogue photos organised and with all their metadata. **Free Desktop Download required for some features.** At the touch of a button Exif-Max captures all the relevant image data to be saved for when you have your photos developed and digitised. Use Exif-Max: The Lab on Mac or PC to combine this data with your film scans. This allows Apple Photos, Lightroom and other photo libraries to organise and filter your analogue photos by date, time, location and more - just like photos taken with your phone or digital camera. Customise Exif-Max to your needs with two modes - Basic and Advanced - choose the mode that best suits your camera's settings and always enjoy a clean user interface and accurate metadata. This goes for professional analogue photography lovers to one time disposable camera users. It has never been so simple to write custom metadata to entire rolls of film photos. METADATA TAGS Capture Data and Time, as well as Timezone and even milliseconds Accurate Location Data Camera and Lens Information Photographer Name Exposure Settings Notes EXPORT OPTIONS Use iCloud to sync with Exif-Max: The Lab on your Mac Share an ExMax file for use with our Mac and PC app Export a CSV to use with ExifTool in your own workflow ADVANCED FEATURES Teleconverter Focal Length Multiple Exposure Notes Shortcut
Positive View
Transform your phone into a live viewer for photographic negatives. Instantly see positive images from color or black-and-white film in real time. Ideal for quickly previewing, selecting, and referencing your film scans.
- Live negative viewing (color & B&W)
- Automatic color balancing
- Brightness, contrast, warmth controls
- Freeze, zoom, and pan frame
- Save positive image to Photos
- Calibration for illumination and lens
- Use second device as light panel
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Positive View turns your iPhone camera into a high quality live viewer for photographic negatives. Place a color or black-and-white film over an even light source, point the camera at it, and Positive View displays a positive image in real time. Use it to quickly see the images, select the best ones for scanning, or make a quick reference image. Features: • Live color and black-and-white negative viewing • Automatic color balancing, with a lock for consistent viewing • Brightness, contrast, and warmth controls • Freeze, zoom, and pan a frame for closer inspection • Save the current positive to Photos • Calibrate for even illumination and to counter lens falloff • Turn a second device into a plain white light panel Camera processing happens on your device. Positive View has no ads, accounts, analytics, or tracking. Images are saved only on your device and only when you tap Save. For best results, use an even, diffused light source with low flicker and keep the film flat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Positive View at Free against Exif's $2.99. Exif's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Positive View is free to download; Exif costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Exif ships an update every 4 days, Positive View fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Exif | Positive View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City Limit Software Ltd | Mikhail Rybakov |
In-app purchases
Exif
No in-app purchases
Positive View
No in-app purchases









