DateStamper vs Timestamp Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DateStamper
Easily add date, time, location, and custom captions to your photos. Preserve your memories with customizable stamps that blend beautifully with your images. Edit or remove stamps non-destructively at any time.
- Apply date, time, and GPS location stamps
- Add custom captions
- Extensive font, color, and style customization
- Non-destructive editing
- Batch stamping
- Photos app extension
- Shortcuts integration
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DateStamper allows you to apply beautiful date stamps overtop your photos – and include time, location, caption, and filename if you’d like. — "DateStamper brings back old memories for me ... It looks good, it gets the job done, and it’s nicely integrated with Apple’s Photos app." – MacStories Editor-in-chief and Founder, Federico Viticci — The modern photo date stamp is here! Easily add a stamp to your photos so you can remember when or where they were taken. Perfect for printing pictures to display in albums or scrapbooks, allowing you to preserve your memories. The best feature of point and shoot cameras is now available on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac – and better than ever. Styles ◦ With many fonts, colors, and styles to choose from, you can get just the look you want* ◦ The vibrant style beautifully blends the stamp into the photograph, allowing the image behind to shine through ◦ Or go with a classic look with the traditional digital display font ◦ Add a background color, stroke, shadow, underline, and adjust opacity ◦ Customize the date and time format ◦ Use the date taken, date created, date added, current date, or a custom date ◦ Add the location where your photos were taken — name, address, GPS coordinates, or custom text ◦ Add the photo caption, a custom caption, or filename ◦ Adjust the placement with position and padding options, and change the order of the text Stamp ◦ Quickly select photos from your library to stamp — select each individually, swipe to select, select a range, or select all photos in an album ◦ Stamp multiple photos at the same time** ◦ Take a new picture with a stamp pre-applied ◦ Use the DateStamper edit extension to stamp a photo directly in the Photos app ◦ Use the Stamp Image action in Shortcuts to automate your workflow ◦ Easily see which photos have been stamped with filters, badges, and a DateStamper album Edit ◦ Edits are applied right on top of the photo in your library, no duplicating necessary ◦ Remove or change a date stamp at any time, it’s completely nondestructive ◦ With iCloud Photos, when you apply a date stamp on one device, it will appear on all your other devices automatically Features ◦ Lock Screen widget and Control Center control ◦ Beautiful and intuitive Liquid Glass design ◦ Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac ◦ No ads, no tracking, no nonsense * Premium Styles is an available in-app purchase that allows you to utilize all of the style options ** Unlimited Batch is an available in-app purchase that allows you to stamp more than 10 photos at a time
Timestamp Camera
This app adds precise time, date, and GPS location stamps to your photos. It's ideal for preserving memories with detailed location data or for professional documentation requiring credible, geotagged images.
- Stamp photos with GPS location
- Add date and time stamps
- Manually select location on map
- Add text notes to photos
- Export and share timestamped images
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Timestamp Camera: Stamp Photos with Time, Date, GPS Map and Address Location! Whether you’re capturing important moments in life or using it for professional work, Timestamp Camera provides precise time, date, and GPS location stamps on every photo to make sure every detail is saved. Great for life’s big moments, Timestamp Camera makes sure every photo holds the details you’ll want to remember. From wedding proposals to birthday parties or adventures, it keeps each memory tagged with time, date, and location. Perfect for professional documentation, this app ensures every image is credible and ready for reporting. Engineers, construction workers, surveyors, and inspectors rely on Timestamp Camera as a trusted tool for capturing and sharing photos with accurate geotags and timestamps. Why Timestamp Camera? - Easily stamp photos with GPS location, address, date, and time. - Choose an automatic geo-location stamp or manually select the location on the map. - Add text notes to photos for quick, clear captions. - Export and share timestamped images in seconds. Download Timestamp Camera now and capture every photo with precise timestamps and GPS maps location, whether for memories or for work! Privacy policy: https://cultured-trollius-a2c.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-81a40c2dac7c49199869f4778db90a2b?pvs=74 Terms of use: https://cultured-trollius-a2c.notion.site/Terms-of-Use-a202d0c9ece34753a3c37296030a8607?pvs=74
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: DateStamper at none against Timestamp Camera's shown. DateStamper also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Timestamp Camera's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and chart position (#103 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. DateStamper sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Timestamp Camera sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for DateStamper against 4.7 for Timestamp Camera. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9.4K and 7K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of DateStamper's written reviews are positive against 77% of Timestamp Camera's.
DateStamper ships an update monthly, Timestamp Camera fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DateStamper | Timestamp Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.4K ratings) — better | 4.7 (7K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.0% of reviews | 77.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.4K — better | 7K |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #103 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jordan Hipwell | Practical Apps from Sweden AB |
Customer experience
DateStamper
Timestamp Camera
Bugs and requests
DateStamper
Reported bugs
2 issues- Date/time stamp not visible on some photos
- Inability to batch process all photos in library
Requested features
3 requests- Add option to stamp videos
- Provide more flexibility in date/time stamp positioning
- Allow manual date/time input for older photos
Timestamp Camera
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DateStamper
- Premium Styles$4.99
- Unlimited Batch$9.99
Timestamp Camera
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial2 variants$4.997 Days
- Premium Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Weekly Premium7 Days trial2 variants$6.997 Days
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- Weekly Premium3 Days trial2 variants$6.997 Days
- Weekly Premium$6.997 Days
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Monthly Premium3 variants$9.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
- Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
- Yearly Premium4 variants$39.991 Year
- Yearly Premium3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Yearly Premium3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Yearly Premium2 variants$49.991 Year
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