Captionwright
Search your whole Apple Photos library by what the camera recorded, and write your fixes into the photo file itself.
- Descriptors live in the file. Data about your image travels with your image: Artist, Copyright, captions, keywords, XMP Title, and dates written into EXIF, IPTC, and XMP.
- Find photos by the gear that took them. Every shot from one lens, camera model, or camera maker.
- Find photos by place and time. Near anywhere on the map, or before, after, or between any dates.
- Search exactly how you think. Match All and Match Any rules for boolean AND/OR logic, regular expressions, or a typed query, with CSV export.
- Insights. See which lenses and cameras you really use.
- Tag who is in the photo. IPTC Person Shown and XMP Subject, straight from the Photos share sheet.
- Nondestructive. Your original is always kept.
- Bulk edits and quick actions. Any writable field, including Subject and Title, plus four quick actions: copyright stamp, shift capture time, strip location, and strip all. Share Clean Copies shares copies with the location and names removed while your originals keep theirs.
- Search is free. Pro is one purchase. No subscription, no ads.
- Private by design. On device, no account, no tracking.
Available now for iPhone and iPad.
Names that stay with your family photos
The Photos app recognizes faces and gathers photos of the same person, but that name lives only inside Photos' own database, not in the file itself. It's lost the moment you export, share, or upload a photo anywhere else.
- Select a person's photos in Photos, share them to Captionwright, and type the name once.
- Captionwright writes it directly into every file as IPTC Person Shown, XMP Subject, or both.
- Because the name is written into the file itself, it isn't lost when you export the photo to a local archive, upload it to a family tree site (Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, and similar), or hand it down completely outside Captionwright.
What nondestructive means
Captionwright never overwrites or deletes your original photo.
- JPEG and HEIC: your changes are saved as a Photos edit. Photos keeps the untouched original alongside it, the edit syncs with iCloud Photos, and Revert in the Photos app brings the original back at any time.
- Live Photos: the same in-place edit. Motion is kept, and HDR is kept where possible.
- PNG, TIFF, and RAW: iOS can't edit these in place, so Captionwright writes a separate, clearly labeled copy, saved to Files or added to your library, and leaves the original exactly as it was.