Comparison

Exif Lens vs Image Inspector

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

Head to head
About

Exif Lens

Features
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Every photo tells a story — Exif Lens lets you control it. Your photos carry more data than you think. View, edit and remove EXIF metadata — capture date, GPS location, camera and lens details — without ever recompressing the image. Key Features: • Everything at a Glance: View all EXIF data instantly on one screen. • Lossless by Design: Edits are written into the original file, so your photos keep their full quality. • Time Travel: Edit capture date and time in seconds. • Pinpoint Precision: Place or move photo locations on a live map. • Perfect Perspective: Adjust camera direction and compass angle. • Camera Data Control: Edit ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and lens details. • The Full Record: Edit copyright, description, comments, serial numbers, exposure compensation, and shooting modes. • Privacy Protection: Remove location, all EXIF data, or hidden XMP data with one tap. • Batch Editing: Edit location or metadata across multiple photos at once. • Filter & Sort: Find any photo instantly with advanced filters and smart sorting. • iPhone, iPad and Mac: One app and one subscription on every device you use. • Made Yours: Choose a light, dark, or system appearance, and switch the app's language whenever you like. • Six Languages: English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, and Italian. Exif Lens Pro Viewing metadata is free. Editing and removing metadata is part of Exif Lens Pro, available monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://exiflens.gokhangunduz.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://exiflens.gokhangunduz.dev/terms

About

Image Inspector

Features
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Every photo carries a second layer: where it was taken, which iPhone took it, when it was really edited, and sometimes a thumbnail of what it looked like before you touched it. Image Inspector reads that layer and puts it in plain language. Open a photo. A few seconds later you have a full report. WHAT IT FINDS • Hidden location. Coordinates, altitude, compass heading and speed, decoded from the file and flagged before you post. • The Story. Your photo retold as a narrative: the device, how you were holding it, the angle of the sun, whether it was golden hour. Worked out offline from the metadata alone. • Tamper Check. The file cross-examined against itself. Capture, digitized and modify clocks that disagree. A camera clock that drifts from GPS satellite time. Recorded dimensions that do not match the real pixels. The embedded preview that still shows the pre-edit image. • Provenance. Reads C2PA Content Credentials, IPTC markers, and the fingerprints that generators such as Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and Firefly leave behind. Declarations only: an unmarked file is reported as unproven, never as real. • Apple maker notes. The private fields other viewers show as an opaque blob: Live Photo identifiers, burst UUIDs, device uptime, grip and tilt, HDR type, colour temperature. Every field listed, none invented. • Readable text, faces, people and pets, QR codes and links, semantic labels and an attention map. • Privacy Audit. Emails, phone numbers, links, card numbers, IBANs, identity documents, embedded author names and camera serial numbers, gathered into one verdict. WHO IT IS FOR Anyone about to post a photo. Marketplace sellers. Photographers who want their own data back. Developers checking a dataset. Anyone curious what a machine sees. HOW IT WORKS Metadata, the story, tamper checks, provenance, faces, text, codes and labels all run on your device using Apple's Vision framework. The Content Safety check is the exception: that image is sent to our server, classified, and deleted. No account. No photo library permission, the picker is enough. Nothing is saved: close a report and it is gone. Share the X-Ray card, or export the whole report as JSON or plain text. It works from the share sheet too.

Screenshots

Exif Lens4 screens
Image Inspector4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Image Inspector at none against Exif Lens's 2. Image Inspector also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Exif Lens sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Image Inspector asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exif Lens ships an update monthly, Image Inspector every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Exif Lens versus Image Inspector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExif LensImage Inspector
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGokhan GunduzBigBalli Consulting llc

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Exif Lens

Subscriptions2
  • Exif Lens Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Exif Lens Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
None

Image Inspector

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Exif Lens free?
Exif Lens is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Image Inspector free?
Image Inspector is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Exif Lens or Image Inspector have ads?
Neither Exif Lens nor Image Inspector shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exif Lens or Image Inspector?
Exif Lens ships an update monthly, and Image Inspector every 6 days. Most recently, Exif Lens was updated on October 25, 2026 and Image Inspector on October 24, 2026.

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