Comparison

DateStamper vs FotoVia

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

FotoVia

This app automatically organizes your travel photos by location, pinning them to a map. Its AI identifies landmarks and venues, allowing you to easily relive memories and share curated albums or slideshows with others.

Highlights
  • Automatic place labeling with AI
  • Photos pinned to an interactive map
  • Group photos by trip
  • Share albums and slideshows
  • Privacy controls for photos
  • Cloud backup option
Features
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FotoVia turns the photos you take on a trip into an organized map of places. Import your travel photos and FotoVia's AI recognizes the exact spot each one was taken — not just the city, but the landmark, museum, restaurant, or street. Your pictures are automatically grouped by place and pinned to a map, so reliving a trip is as easy as tapping a location. WHAT FOTOVIA DOES • Automatic place labeling — AI identifies landmarks, artwork, and venues in your photos • Map view — every photo dropped on the map exactly where it was taken • Trips — group a whole vacation's photos together with one tap • Share — send a beautiful album or slideshow link to family and friends, no app required • Your choice of privacy — keep photos fully private on your device, get AI labels only, or back everything up to the cloud with a free account YOU STAY IN CONTROL FotoVia never deletes photos from your phone. A Pause button stops capture any time, and your photos are only backed up to the cloud if you choose "Full" mode. You can delete your account and all backed-up data at any time, right from Settings. PERFECT FOR • Travelers who want their memories organized by place, automatically • Anyone tired of scrolling endlessly to find "that one photo from the trip" • Families who want to share a trip without handing over their whole camera roll Start a trip, take photos like you always do, and let FotoVia map your journey.

Screenshots

DateStamper4 screens
FotoVia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FotoVia at none against DateStamper's 2. FotoVia also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). DateStamper's advantage is ratings volume (9.2K vs 1). On price, 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. DateStamper sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. FotoVia asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FotoVia 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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
DateStamper versus FotoVia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDateStamperFotoVia
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9.2K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJordan HipwellTatanka Labs

Customer experience

DateStamper

All ratings9,172 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews480 reviews
Positive74.0%
Neutral5.4%
Negative20.6%

FotoVia

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

FotoVia

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
None

FotoVia

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DateStamper free?
DateStamper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FotoVia free?
FotoVia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DateStamper or FotoVia?
FotoVia is rated higher. DateStamper averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9.2K ratings, while FotoVia averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DateStamper or FotoVia have ads?
Neither DateStamper nor FotoVia shows ads.

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