Comparison

App Iris vs Exportveil

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

Head to head
About

App Iris

Investigate your device's app activity with detailed logs. Uncover network connections, microphone/camera usage, and compare app behavior to privacy policies. Export data for analysis or network blocking.

Highlights
  • Search and filter app events
  • Correlate device and network activity
  • Identify connection ownership and location
  • Compare app behavior to privacy policies
  • Track microphone and camera usage
  • Export data for analysis and blocklists
Features
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Hidden in your device's App Privacy Report is a detailed record of what your device and apps have been doing. App Iris provides a clear, interactive picture of that activity — with insight that once required costly tools and expertise, right on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. • See when your camera, microphone, photos, screen recording, location, and more were accessed by your installed apps. • Explore it all on a unique timeline view that lines up app activity side by side — so you can spot patterns and understand what was really happening on your device at any moment. • Discover the third-party services and hosting providers around the world your apps connect to. • Compare real-world app behavior against developer privacy claims — then decide what to keep, restrict, or delete. FOR IT & SECURITY TEAMS Correlate a security alert or network event to a specific app on a specific device — no lab required. Validate timing and behavior directly on the device, or send the user our shortcut to export and forward a report for offline analysis on your Mac. For deep analysis on a larger screen, use the iPad or Mac version. FILTERING & SEARCH • Search and filter events by app, category, date/time, duration, or domain. TIMELINE & CORRELATION • A dual-lane timeline shows each app's sensor access and network connections together, in sequence. • Surface related events across apps — for example, what else was active during a phone or video call. INTELLIGENCE & DOMAIN RANKING • Identify connection ownership, location, and provider type (e.g., hosting provider, VPN, mobile network). • Domain Ranking flags connections to rare domains — those outside common sites — and lets you quickly review and surface suspicious or unusual sites. • Look up domains against external threat intelligence services, and add your own (opens in your browser). REPORT INSIGHTS (Personal and Pro) • Plot connection history on a live map to see where your data may be going. • Break down app connections by country — see at a glance which apps talk to which parts of the world. • Tag and export events, and create DNS blocklists for Pi-hole or similar filters, or as CSV for offline analysis (Pro). PRIVACY FIRST • Your privacy reports stay private. App Iris processes reports locally on your device. • Optional online geolocation and intelligence lookups send only the individual domain or IP address being checked to an external provider — and can be disabled in Settings. SUBSCRIPTION TIERS • Basic — Explore the most recent 12 hours of activity in a report, with basic features. Currently Free. • Personal — Unlock complete report analysis, insights and reporting features, automatic geolocation, and global mapping. • Pro — Aggregate reports for extended timelines; tag, annotate, and export events and blocklists; use custom DNS resolvers; share App Iris with Family Sharing; and more. App Iris is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac (macOS version in the Mac App Store). Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://auxiris.com/legal/appiris-privacy

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Exportveil

Features
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Exportveil shows what your photos, videos and documents give away before you send them, removes it, and then checks the clean copy again. Everything happens on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no uploads, one price. NEW IN 3.0 • Clean Files: add photos and videos from your library, or PDFs and .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files from Files. Each one gets a plain-language report grouped by what it reveals: location, dates, names, device, captions and hidden content. • Photos stay sharp: JPEG, HEIC and PNG photos are cleaned without re-compressing the picture. The image data is copied byte for byte; only the metadata changes. • Verified clean copies: after cleaning, Exportveil reads every copy again and shows "Clean copy verified", or lists exactly what is still there. • Videos: recorded location, device, dates and author are removed while the audio and video are copied without re-encoding. • PDFs: author, creator app, dates, XMP, comments and their authors, attachments, scripts and form data are removed by rebuilding the pages. Text stays selectable; visible comments can be kept as they look. • Office documents: author, last saved by, company, manager, template paths and editing time are removed; reviewers become Reviewer 1, Reviewer 2. Comments are deleted, tracked changes accepted and hidden text removed in .docx files. Photos inside documents are cleaned too. • Choose what to remove: Everything, Location only, or your own mix. Optional neutral file names (Photo 1, Document 1). • Share, save to Photos or save to Files in one step. Open files from other apps with Share > Exportveil. • Share-sheet cleaning: pick photos, videos, PDFs or Office files in Photos, Files or Mail, choose Exportveil Clean, and share or save the verified clean copies without opening the app. Very large files (over 40 MB, videos over 1 GB) are sent to the app instead. • Shortcuts: "Clean File Metadata" and "Check File for Hidden Data" actions. • Text Check now also finds phone numbers, street addresses, people's names (on-device), card numbers and IBANs (checksum-verified), US Social Security numbers, API keys and tokens, private keys, MAC and IPv6 addresses, and your own watch-list terms. Replace them with readable labels like [EMAIL-1], salted tokens or [REDACTED], then share or copy the result. • Paste button, Guide tab, and try-it sample files with made-up data. WHY IT MATTERS Photos can carry the exact spot they were taken, the time, the phone model and serial numbers, and a thumbnail from before you cropped. Many ways of sending files keep all of it, including email, file attachments and some messaging apps. The share sheet's Location switch removes location only. Documents carry author and reviewer names, company fields, comments and deleted text from tracked changes. WHAT EXPORTVEIL REMOVES Photos: GPS coordinates, altitude and direction, IPTC place names, capture and edit dates, camera and lens make, model and serial numbers, owner and artist names, captions and keywords, XMP and IPTC blocks, maker notes, embedded thumbnails, content credentials and PNG text blocks (including AI generation settings). Orientation and color profile are kept. HONEST LIMITS Metadata cleaning cannot change what is visible: faces, street signs, screens or names on a page. Exportveil points out emails and phone numbers it sees in document text, but you edit visible content yourself. PDF clean copies do not keep links, bookmarks or fillable fields. Spreadsheet and slide comments, speaker notes and hidden sheets are reported for you to remove in your editor. Unusual files are re-encoded at high quality, and the report says so. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, ads, analytics, tracking or network features. Photos are chosen with the system picker, so Exportveil only sees what you pick; saving to your library asks for add-only access. Originals are never modified, and the temporary workspace is deleted when you clear it or leave the app.

Screenshots

App Iris4 screens
Exportveil4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: App Iris at Free against Exportveil's $2.99. Exportveil's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On update cadence, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

App Iris is free to download; Exportveil costs $2.99 up front. App Iris sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Exportveil asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

App Iris ships an update weekly, Exportveil fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
App Iris versus Exportveil: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterApp IrisExportveil
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB4 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAuxiris LLCRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

4 purchases

App Iris

Subscriptions4
  • Personal Edition (1 Month)$4.991 Month
  • Pro Edition (1 Month)$7.991 Month
  • Personal Edition (12 Months)$29.991 Year
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  • Pro Edition (Annual)$49.991 Year
None

Exportveil

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is App Iris free?
App Iris is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Exportveil free?
Exportveil costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do App Iris or Exportveil have ads?
Neither App Iris nor Exportveil shows ads.
Which is updated more often, App Iris or Exportveil?
App Iris ships an update weekly, and Exportveil fortnightly. Most recently, App Iris was updated on October 13, 2026 and Exportveil on October 10, 2026.

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