Geotag Photos Pro 2

Does exactly what it claims to do. Nice feature with Apple Watch as well to make points. I notice no battery issue when running for 3-4 hours at a time. Pop the GPX file into Lightroom and everything geotagged.

Simple to use, does what I want it to do perfectly.

Simple app that only does one thing, and does it brilliantly. I’ve been using it for 8 years now and have tagged tens of thousands of photographs without any issues.

I use this App in conjunction with my DJI Pocket camera, which doesn’t have GPS capabilities. It is simple and reliable to use. The App runs on my iPhone during the day and it collects GPS data in the background - I use the default setting of every two minutes, but the interval can be more or less. My experience is that there is little drain on the battery. At the end of the session, I upload the created GPX file to the developer’s server for subsequent use when my media from the Pocket has been moved across to my iPhone. I then use the companion App (GeoTag Photos Tagger) to pull down the GPX file to merge with the photos/videos. This combination has removed a major frustration of not being able to easily identify geographic locations. A perfect solution!

I found this app complicated and difficult to use. To make matters worse you need an additional app to tag your photos, seems a bit exploitative to me! I can’t recommend this at all.

Been using it for over two years now and there are still times I leave the house with a camera and forget to start the app, (my bad!). Improvement requests: If there was an improvement to be made it would be that when you pressed ‘Start’ the log starts with the current date and time and not the title that was last used. Failing that and better still that once you press start a window opens asking for the logs title, that would be the icing on the cake!

User friendly and reliable cloud upload.

I’ve used several geo tracking apps to add location info to my photographs. This works as well as many others. One addition will make a significant improvement. Provide a Pause button. I know you can stop the logging but doing that means the widget does not work. If there was a Pause button in the widget the widget could then be used to restart the logging without going into the app. The widget has limited use without this.

Used this for two week road trip in the USA. Works well almost all of the time but gets itself in a mess when the phone changes time zones. If you are near a time zone line the phone, in a fixed location, can change time zones quite often depending upon which cell it picks up from. This causes the time stamp to differ from the camera time by an hour. The result is a day long track file containing many parts which you then have to manually align to camera time afterwards using the desktop app. This is very painful when thousands of photos are involved. Would be far better if the app asked to confirm time change and so it would allow the user to keep the phone and camera time synchronised.

Despite setting the logging interval to 1 minute and the minimum distance to 10m I only get 4 or 5 track points on a 3-hour walk. This app, like many others I've tried, just straight up fails to reliably log track points. I've given it 3 stars because I assume this must be a limitation iOS places on GPS logging of apps in the background, but if that's the case the app should warn you.