QromaScan vs EXIF Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QromaScan
Effortlessly scan and organize your physical photos using your iPhone and voice commands. Simply speak the date, location, and people to automatically tag and categorize your images as you scan them.
- Voice-activated scanning
- Automatic photo tagging
- Geotagging capabilities
- Contact and GEDCOM file integration
- Dedicated LED lightbox for optimal scanning
- Organizes photos into sharable digital images
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QromaScan makes it dead simple to scan and organize your photos in one easy step with the two things you use the most everyday; your iPhone and your voice. Just say the date, location and people in your photos, and QromaScan will tag and organize your photos as it scans! QromaScan requires the purchase of the QromaScan Lightbox, which provides the ideal environment for scanning your photos. It’s 12 brilliant LED lights are specifically calibrated to make your photos look brilliant without effecting the look. Forget about all those blurry photos with a big glare right in the middle of it last time you tried to take a picture of a picture. The QromaScan Lightbox aligns your phone and your photos perfectly, so you get a great photo every time. With QromaScan, your photos organize themselves using our unique voice recognition tagging system. Just say the date and location of the photo, and we will insert the right metadata into the photo. You can even tell us an address or location, and we will geotag the photo for you. Tagging people is easy too. QromaScan recognizes the names of the people in your contacts, and they can be used to tag you photos. If you use family tree software, QromaScan can import a GEDCOM file and use it with our voice recognition system to make it easy to tag family photos. Pick up a QromaScan Lightbox and you will be surprise how quickly your old box of photos can be turned into well organized and sharable digital images.
EXIF Studio
Effortlessly manage your photo library by viewing, editing, and sharing image metadata. Protect your privacy by removing sensitive location data before exporting your pictures. This app offers an intuitive experience for both iPhone and iPad users.
- View image metadata
- Remove location data
- Share edited images
- Load images from gallery
- Load images from URLs
- Intuitive interface
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Experience the power of EXIF Studio — the essential iOS app for exploring, managing, and protecting your photo metadata. Instantly view every detail embedded in your photos: camera make and model, lens, exposure settings, ISO, focal length, GPS coordinates, and more. Load images directly from your photo library or any image URL. - Privacy First: Remove location data or strip all metadata before sharing — export a clean copy straight to your Photos library without touching the original. - Batch Export: Select up to 50 photos at once and export them all without location data or metadata in one step. - Revert Anytime: Made a change? Revert any photo back to its original state with a single tap. - Raw Metadata Viewer: Explore the full, unformatted metadata of any photo. Filter by keyword and share the raw JSON with one tap. -Works Everywhere: Optimized for iPhone and iPad with a clean, native interface. Download EXIF Studio and take full control of your photo library today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: QromaScan at Free against EXIF Studio's $0.99. QromaScan also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). EXIF Studio's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.3) and review sentiment (50% vs 25%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
QromaScan is free to download; EXIF Studio costs $0.99 up front. QromaScan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and EXIF Studio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
EXIF Studio holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EXIF Studio has 21 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of QromaScan's written reviews are positive against 50% of EXIF Studio's.
QromaScan ships an update every 6 weeks, EXIF Studio every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QromaScan | EXIF Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) | 4.2 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qroma LLC | Kappz LLC |
Customer experience
QromaScan
EXIF Studio
In-app purchases
QromaScan
- QromaScan Import$4.99
EXIF Studio
- EXIF Studio Pro$1.99









