Comparison

DateStamper vs Video Date Stamper

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Video Date Stamper

Automatically embed precise creation date and time watermarks onto your videos. Preserve original quality for easy tracking and archiving. Effortlessly add millisecond-accurate timestamps to your footage.

Highlights
  • Automatic date and time stamping
  • Millisecond precision
  • Preserves original video quality
  • Watermark timestamp export
  • Effortless video processing
Features
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Video Date Stamper automatically adds the creation date and time, down to the millisecond, as a watermark timestamp to your existing videos. This effortless process helps you precisely track when your videos were captured. Your watermarked videos are exported in their original quality, preserving every detail for sharing or archiving. Contact Us: videodatestamper@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://storage.googleapis.com/www.stridly.com/vds_privacy_policy.html

Screenshots

DateStamper4 screens
Video Date Stamper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: DateStamper at 9.2K against Video Date Stamper's 1. DateStamper also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 50%). Video Date Stamper's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DateStamper sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Video Date Stamper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Video Date Stamper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DateStamper has 9.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of DateStamper's written reviews are positive against 50% of Video Date Stamper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DateStamper ships an update monthly, Video Date Stamper every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DateStamper versus Video Date Stamper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDateStamperVideo Date Stamper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.8% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9.2K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB12 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJordan HipwellSebastian Poliak

Customer experience

DateStamper

All ratings9,172 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews474 reviews
Positive73.8%
Neutral5.5%
Negative20.7%

Video Date Stamper

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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

Video Date Stamper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DateStamper

One-time2
  • Premium Styles$4.99
  • Unlimited Batch$9.99
1 purchases

Video Date Stamper

One-time1
  • Full Access for Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is DateStamper free?
DateStamper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Video Date Stamper free?
Video Date Stamper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DateStamper or Video Date Stamper?
Video Date Stamper is rated higher. DateStamper averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9.2K ratings, while Video Date Stamper averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DateStamper or Video Date Stamper have ads?
Neither DateStamper nor Video Date Stamper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DateStamper or Video Date Stamper?
DateStamper ships an update monthly, and Video Date Stamper every 6 weeks. Most recently, DateStamper was updated on September 24, 2026 and Video Date Stamper on August 3, 2026.

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