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New iPhone Photo App: Exif & IPTC Metadata Browser
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 1:00PM | Glyn Evans 
Description from the AppStore: Read the metadata in your pictures. Works on iOS 4 for images taken with the camera and imported with the camera connection Kit.
You will get all the kinds of metadata readable in your image, including:
- Exif metadata (aperture, speed, maker, date...)
- IPTC metadata (Headline, By_line, credits, ...)
- GPS Metadata (longitude, latitude, date, accuracy, direction)
and more info.
Note: Due to the way iTunes seems to work, all images imported from that software have absolutely no IPTC or Exif Metadata. And GPS is reduced.
iOS 4 ONLY
AppStore Link: Exif & IPTC Metadata Browser - Price: FREE
Editors comments: When this app was released yesterday it was priced at $0.99. Today it is FREE, so if you want to be able to read your iPhone's photos Exif & IPTC Metadata, then check this app out.
Reader Comments (3)
Unfortunately, it's read-only, meaning you can't add any IPTC data yourself. Also, the app doesn't work when location services is switched off. Finally, when you open the camera roll, it starts at the top (oldest photos). It's way to slow to scroll through my 4000+ photos. Ideally, I'd like all my photo apps to open the camera roll at the bottom (newest photos displayed first). Hoping for an update with metadata editing features.
It's really not worth downloading (even for free). The info presented is cryptic at best. I use Thumbs+ on the PC and the EXIF (etc.) data is right there in plain English (not to 9 decimal places. Plus I can edit much of the info as I see fit. So I quickly deleted this after trying it.
Am I the only one that thinks it's weird that Apple won't let anyone else have access to a pic's EXIF data? LIterally, nobody. You apparently have to write it in yourself.
It's like they don't want any of our photo apps to succeed! WEAK,