Captionwright
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Fact Sheet

Captionwright is an iPhone and iPad app that works on the metadata inside your photos. It reads the values your camera recorded in each photo, such as the lens, camera model, date and place, and lets you search your whole Apple Photos library by them. When a date, caption, keyword or name is wrong or missing, it writes the fix into the photo file itself, in its EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata, so the fix travels with the picture.

Search is free. Find every shot from one lens, camera or camera maker, find photos by place on a map or by a date range, and combine rules with Match All and Match Any, regular expressions or a typed query. Insights counts the library by lens, camera model, camera maker and photo type, most used first, and a tap on a row shows those photos. Results export as a CSV spreadsheet.

Editing is built for family history as well as photography. Names written with IPTC Person Shown or XMP Subject stay in the file when the photo is exported to an archive, uploaded to a family tree site or handed down. Bulk edits and quick actions (copyright stamp, shift capture time, strip location, strip all metadata) change many photos at once, and Share Clean Copies shares copies with the location and names removed.

Your original is always kept. JPEG and HEIC changes are saved as a Photos edit, so Revert in Photos brings the original back, and the edit syncs with iCloud Photos. PNG, TIFF and RAW files, which iOS cannot edit in place, get a clearly labeled copy instead.

Everything happens on the device. There is no account, no server, no advertising and no tracking. The only network use is Apple's iCloud Photos download of an original that is not on the device.

Searching and Insights are free. A single one-time Captionwright Pro purchase unlocks every edit for iPhone and iPad. No subscription.

Captionwright is developed by Steven H. VanderLeest at squishLogic, an independent studio. Version 1.0 was released on November 11, 2026.

Quick Facts

Screenshots

Official App Store screenshots, right-click or long-press to save.

Videos

Short videos showing the app at work, free to watch and link to: Captionwright on YouTube

Contact

Questions, interview requests, review copies, or anything not on this page? Email us: support@squishlogic.com