daterCam 2 vs fastbackward
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
daterCam 2
This app automatically embeds the date, time, GPS location, and custom text into a QR code on your photos. Preserve memories with essential details and access your images from the library. It also displays technical photo information like shutter speed and aperture.
- Automatic date and time stamping
- GPS location embedding
- Custom text overlay
- QR code generation on image
- Access photos from library
- Display technical photo data
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Take a picture and put automatically the date and time, GPS position and text location in QR image top left. Immortalize your moments, do not let past the time when you did not remember a photo. You can retrieve your photos from the library. Show information about your picture: - shutter speed - exposure time - aperture - brightness IMPORTANT: You need to have the GPS active and give permission to access the data of the photos.
fastbackward
Relive past memories with your photos. This app resurfaces pictures taken on this day in previous years, helping you recall significant life events and see your personal growth. It also displays photos on a map using EXIF data and can show random memories if no photos exist for the date.
- Resurfaces photos from previous years
- Displays photos on a map using EXIF data
- Excludes screenshots from memories
- On-device processing for privacy
- Shows random memories if no photos for the date
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Have you ever wondered what you were doing on this day last year? Or the year before? What about the year before that? With fastbackward you'll not only know, but have your photos to remind you, too. Taking photos is great, but looking at those photos is where the real fun begins. Your iPhone takes stunning photos but it needs fastbackward to surface the most important photos at the right time. Your iPhone is full of photos but they're a jumbled mess in the Photos app. What makes fastbackward so valuable is the way it surfaces photos you took today, but in years past. You'll see your kids growing up as well as any big life events that happened on this day, too. Didn't take a photo on this day? Fastbackward can show you a random memory instead. As well as showing you your photos and jogging your memory, fastbackward will also use your photos' EXIF data to plot where you took them on a map. You'll never wonder where you took your favourite landscape photo ever again. Features include: - The ability to exclude screenshots from your memories. - Privacy. Because your photos are hugely personal, fastbackward doesn't upload any of them to the internet. All of the processing is carried out on your device, right where it should be. - EXIF data used to display a map of where you took your photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: fastbackward at 100% against daterCam 2's 33%. daterCam 2's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. daterCam 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and fastbackward sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
daterCam 2 ships an update weekly, fastbackward every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | daterCam 2 | fastbackward |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jose javier fernandez mendoza | Maximilian Krauss |
Customer experience
daterCam 2
fastbackward
In-app purchases
daterCam 2
- Remove Ads$0.99
fastbackward
- fastbackward Pro$1.99









