DateStamper vs Chrono Gallery
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
Chrono Gallery
This app automatically organizes your photos and videos into a chronological timeline, making it easy to browse your memories. It offers fast navigation by year, month, and day with a clean grid layout and privacy-focused design, keeping all your media on your device.
- Automatic chronological organization
- Fast navigation by date
- Clean grid layout
- Privacy-first design
- Library storage statistics
- Easy sharing
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# ChronoGallery – Private Photo & Video Gallery ChronoGallery organizes your photos and videos into a clean chronological timeline, making it easy to browse your memories by year, month, and day. Enjoy a simple, lightweight gallery designed for fast navigation, smooth scrolling, and easy access to your personal media. ## Features • **Chronological Organization** – Browse photos and videos grouped by year, month, and day. • **Fast Date Navigation** – Quickly find memories from a specific time. • **Clean Grid Layout** – View your photos and videos in an organized, easy-to-browse gallery. • **Photo & Video Indicators** – Easily distinguish photos from video content. • **Storage Statistics** – View information about your photo library's storage usage. • **Easy Sharing** – Share photos and videos conveniently. • **Smooth Performance** – Enjoy responsive navigation and fast loading. • **Camera Photo Copying** – Copy eligible photos taken directly with your device's camera. ## Camera Photos Only ChronoGallery's photo-copying feature is limited to photos taken directly with your device's camera. **It does not copy photos from iCloud or photos and images received from other people**, such as images shared through messaging apps or other sources. This feature is designed specifically for your own camera-taken photos, helping keep the copying process focused on the content you captured yourself. ## Privacy First Your privacy matters. • No account required • No data collection • No cloud uploads • Your media stays on your device ChronoGallery does not upload your photos or videos to external servers. Your media remains on your device, giving you control over your personal memories. ## Simple, Private, and Organized Whether you're looking for a photo from last week or revisiting memories from years ago, ChronoGallery makes browsing your photo and video collection simple. Enjoy a cleaner gallery experience with chronological organization, convenient sharing, storage statistics, and camera-photo-only copying—all in one lightweight app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DateStamper at Free against Chrono Gallery's $0.99. DateStamper also leads on ratings volume (9.4K vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Chrono Gallery's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On 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
DateStamper is free to download; Chrono Gallery costs $0.99 up front. DateStamper sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Chrono Gallery asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chrono Gallery holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DateStamper has 9.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DateStamper ships an update monthly, Chrono Gallery every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DateStamper | Chrono Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jordan Hipwell | Tyler McQuade |
Customer experience
DateStamper
Chrono Gallery
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
Chrono Gallery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DateStamper
- Premium Styles$4.99
- Unlimited Batch$9.99
Chrono Gallery
No in-app purchases
Questions
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