Comparison

DateStamper vs Timestamp Camera

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

Timestamp Camera

Features
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Put your own text on your photos. - Label stamps add your own line of text to a photo, separately from the date and location stamp - Drag to move, pinch to resize. Portrait and landscape positions are remembered separately - Turn labels on and off with the chips at the top of the camera. Turning one off doesn't delete it - Colors and background follow the stamp settings you already use — your stamp settings stay as they are - Labels are included when you stamp album photos in a batch - A new eye button briefly hides the on-screen guides so you can check your framing - One label is free; watch a short ad once to use two - Fixed the permission prompt not appearing after a capture, and ads sometimes not showing

Screenshots

DateStamper4 screens
Timestamp Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timestamp Camera at none against DateStamper's 2. Timestamp Camera also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). DateStamper's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Timestamp Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DateStamper ships an update monthly, Timestamp Camera every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DateStamper versus Timestamp Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDateStamperTimestamp Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9.2K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJordan Hipwellhaena park

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

2 purchases

DateStamper

One-time2
  • Premium Styles$4.99
  • Unlimited Batch$9.99
None

Timestamp Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DateStamper free?
DateStamper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timestamp Camera free?
Timestamp Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DateStamper or Timestamp Camera have ads?
Timestamp Camera shows ads; DateStamper does not.
Which is updated more often, DateStamper or Timestamp Camera?
DateStamper ships an update monthly, and Timestamp Camera every 4 days. Most recently, DateStamper was updated on October 20, 2026 and Timestamp Camera on October 16, 2026.

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