Comparison

PowerDrive vs Capture

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

Head to head
About

PowerDrive

This app allows you to automatically back up photos, videos, calendar, and contacts from your iOS device to external storage. It also enables direct shooting and saving to external drives, sharing to social media, and seamless file management across devices.

Highlights
  • Automatic photo and video backup
  • Calendar and contact backup
  • Direct shooting to external drive
  • Social media sharing
  • 4K movie playback
  • Cross-platform file management
Features
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The PowerDrive app is designed to work with Lightning flash drive, card reader and hard drive, the world’s leading external storage for iOS devices, certified MFi by Apple. Simply plug your Lightning flash drive, card reader, Power Drive into your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, the app goes to work. Automatically back up Photos and Videos, Calendar and Contacts. - PowerDrive utilizes incremental backup, so after the first time you back everything up, it will only back up the newly shot photos and videos. 10 copies of Contacts and Calendar are kept for recovery if you lost some data. Restoring your important data with one tap -Backed up items can be restored to a new iPhone or iPad quickly from devices. With just one tap, your photos, calendar and contacts are all in place. Shoot HD videos, take photos and save to external drive instantly. - So long your device has space, you can shoot videos as long as you want until the device is full. Share photos and videos to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Wechat directly from PowerDrive devices. - Choose any of your photos or videos and share to social media you like. You don’t need to copy to iPhone/iPad and then open the apps to share. Browse photos on the external drive like they’re on a local drive. - PowerDrive automatically adjusts the size and thumbnail to fit different devices so your images always look great. Watch 4K Movie with no latency -PowerDrive supports playing multiple formats movies including 3GP,AVI,FLV,TS,RMVB,MKV,MPG,VOB,ASF,F4V,DV,MPEG,RM, MP4,MOV,M4V. Even SWF, AMV, MTV, TRP, MTS videos can be played instantly from your PowerDrive devices by simply renaming the affix. Subtitle and audio track can be selected while watching. Manage files easily between Mac, PC, iOS and iPadOS devices. - PowerDrive accessories are compatible with PC, Mac, iOS and iPadOS devices.. Transferring your files from PC/Mac to your iPhone/iPad is now a piece of cake via USB. Follow us on Facebook.com/hipowerdrive www.hipowerdrive.com

About

Capture

Easily import photos and videos from cameras, SD cards, or USB drives while preserving original capture dates, GPS data, and EXIF information. Correct metadata before import and ensure no original files are altered.

Highlights
  • Preserves capture date, time, and GPS
  • Imports from cameras, SD cards, USB drives
  • Corrects EXIF data before import
  • Checks for duplicate photos
  • Supports RAW file formats
  • Offloads to external SSDs
  • Records and applies GPS routes
Features
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Capture imports photos and videos from a camera, SD card or USB drive into your Photos library. It keeps everything the camera recorded: capture date and time, GPS coordinates, make, model, lens, ISO, aperture, shutter speed and focal length. Capture reads those out of the file and writes them onto the photo explicitly, so each shot lands with the date and place it was taken, not the date you imported it. That is why the app exists. A camera or card that mounts as a drive gets no photo importer, only a file browser, and a plain file copy does not set any of it, so whether the date and place survive then depends on whatever program opens the file next. Connect the camera, card or drive, pick the shots you want, and they go into Photos. NEVER THE SAME PHOTO TWICE Every file is checked against your whole library first, rotated copies included, so anything you already imported comes back flagged. You only carry over what's new. FIX IT BEFORE IT LANDS The camera is not always right: a clock that was never set, no GPS receiver, the wrong lens in the EXIF. Correct any of those fields before the photo reaches your library: date and time on one frame or shifted across a whole batch, keeping the intervals between them; location on a map; copyright, artist and file name. NOTHING TOUCHES THE CARD Your originals are never written to. Every edit goes into the copy Photos gets. Rotation is lossless: one EXIF orientation tag rewritten, the pixels untouched. RAW AS SHOT CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG and more, imported exactly as captured. STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No account, no cloud, no servers. Nothing leaves your iPhone or iPad. FREE TO START Your first import is the whole card, no limits. After that, the free tier allows 5 items a day. WHAT A PURCHASE CHANGES It lifts the 5-a-day limit. Every capability below works on the free tier, with one exception: recording a route runs the GPS for hours at a time, so it comes with the purchase. FOR THE CARD YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE • Smart Cull scores sharpness while the card is still being read and flags the soft frames. Page through them full size, keep the ones you blurred on purpose, skip the rest so they never reach your library. • Offload to a drive sends a card straight to an external SSD or a Files folder, no laptop. Every file is read back and hash-checked after writing, with a per-file receipt and a plain “safe to erase” verdict before you format anything. • Record your route while you shoot, then geotag the whole card from it, matched by capture time. Recording keeps going with the screen off and the app closed; nothing is logged unless you start a recording, and tracks stay on your iPhone. • Geotag from any GPX track you already have, matched the same way. • Keep both halves of a RAW+JPEG pair, or just one, and save RAW Photos can't render to Files so it survives. • Old digicam videos (AVI, MPG) convert on import so they play on iPhone (iOS 18+), and a Shortcuts import runs with one tap. One plan, as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. --- Capture is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly); a one-time Lifetime unlock is also available, and prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends; you can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://capture.karololszanski.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PowerDrive4 screens
Capture4 screens

Verdict

The call

PowerDrive and Capture both sit at 2.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Capture's written reviews are positive against 21% of PowerDrive's. PowerDrive's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Capture sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. PowerDrive asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.9 for PowerDrive against 3.0 for Capture. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PowerDrive has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 21% of PowerDrive's written reviews are positive against 100% of Capture's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PowerDrive ships an update every 3 weeks, Capture every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PowerDrive versus Capture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPowerDriveCapture
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (13 ratings)3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXinker Technology Co.,LtdKarol Olszanski

Customer experience

PowerDrive

All ratings13 ratings
Positive46.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative46.2%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive20.9%
Neutral11.8%
Negative67.3%

Capture

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PowerDrive

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Capture

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Quarterly$3.993 Months
  • Yearly$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is PowerDrive free?
PowerDrive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Capture free?
Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PowerDrive or Capture?
Capture is rated higher. PowerDrive averages 2.9 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Capture averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PowerDrive or Capture have ads?
Neither PowerDrive nor Capture shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PowerDrive or Capture?
PowerDrive ships an update every 3 weeks, and Capture every 2 months. Most recently, PowerDrive was updated on October 15, 2026 and Capture on October 28, 2026.

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