GPS Camera with Time Stamp

Review by eFreeware

A photo taken on a phone usually carries its location quietly in the file's metadata, where almost nobody looks. If you need that information visible on the picture itself, you need a camera that writes it into the frame. GPS Camera with Time Stamp does exactly that, stamping each shot with coordinates, an address, the date and the time as it is captured.

The app comes from Wanda Gallery Studio and sits in the Tools category on Google Play. It is free to download and shows ads. It has passed five million installs, and its 3.2 average from just over six thousand ratings suggests a mixed reception rather than uniform praise. It arrived in early October 2025 and was updated in September 2026.

What the stamp actually records

The core of the app is a camera that adds a location stamp to every image. Latitude, longitude and address details all go onto the photo, and the developer's pitch is that you do nothing beyond opening the camera and pressing the shutter. For someone photographing a delivery, a property or a stretch of road, that matters: the picture itself becomes the record, and you do not have to cross-reference anything later.

There is a choice of stamp styles rather than one fixed layout. The developer lists minimal, colorful and professional templates, which is a sensible spread. A site inspection photo and a vacation snapshot call for very different treatments, and having a restrained option alongside a bolder one means the stamp can be made to fit the picture instead of fighting it.

Video gets the same treatment. You can record clips with the stamp templates applied, so a walkthrough of a building or a stretch of coastline carries the same location and timing information as a still. Whether you save or share straight away is left to you, but the stamped file is ready once recording stops.

Built with fieldwork in mind

The app targets professional users such as field inspectors, construction crews, real estate agents and surveyors. That list tells you a lot about the design intent. These are people who need a defensible record of a visit, with the location and the moment attached to the image rather than stored separately where it can be lost or questioned.

For that audience, the appeal is speed and consistency. A surveyor working through a series of plots does not want to open a separate mapping tool for each shot. A real estate agent photographing a property wants the address visible in the frame. An inspector documenting a site wants the date and time present without extra steps. The app is arranged around that workflow rather than around editing photos after the fact.

I would expect the automatic approach to be the deciding factor here. Manual geotagging tools exist, but they add a step to every image, and steps are what get skipped when you are working through a long list of locations in a day.

For travel and everyday record-keeping

The other side of the app is personal. Trips, day-to-day activities and memories are all named by the developer as fair use, and the same automatic stamping applies. A photo from a viewpoint or a market stall arrives already labeled with where and when it was taken, which is useful when a trip spans several towns and the pictures start to blur together.

The stamp templates matter more here than in fieldwork. A colorful layout suits a holiday album; a minimal one keeps the image itself dominant. Because the stamp is part of the picture, the result is a record you can hand to someone or post without explanation, which is the point of the whole exercise.

The extra modes beyond the camera

Three features sit alongside the camera. Photo Grid offers several grid styles for displaying pictures with a location map, which turns a set of stamped images into something closer to a visual log of a route or a project. Compass Mode shows your direction either on the map or in the camera view, and Earth View turns the phone into a 3D map and Earth explorer.

These are supporting tools rather than the main event, and how much you use them will depend on whether you like reviewing where you have been. The compass is the one with the clearest practical use during fieldwork, since direction is often part of what you are trying to record. Earth View reads more as a browsing feature, pleasant to have but not the reason to install the app.

The app also supports multiple languages, with a switch inside the app, so the interface can be set to whichever language you read most comfortably.

What to expect when you install it

Setup is simple: open the camera, take the shot, and the app adds the geotag. There is no manual location entry described, which is the feature the app leans on hardest. If you have used a standard camera app, the basic action here should feel familiar, with the stamping happening as part of the shot rather than as a separate editing stage.

Two practical points are worth setting out plainly. The app is free and contains ads, and it offers no in-app purchases. It also relies on GPS for the location data it stamps.

The rating picture is the other thing to weigh. A 3.2 average across more than six thousand ratings is not a ringing endorsement, and it is a reminder that a large install base and a happy one are not the same thing. I would treat the app as a utility to try against your own workflow rather than something to take on faith.

Who gets the most from this camera

The clearest fit is anyone whose photos need to prove something. Surveyors, inspectors, construction crews and real estate agents are named by the developer for good reason: their images are evidence, and evidence is stronger when the place and time are visible in the frame rather than buried in file properties. If your work involves visiting sites and recording them, the automatic stamping removes a step you would otherwise repeat all day.

The second fit is the traveler who wants a labeled record without extra effort. If you take a lot of pictures in unfamiliar places and later struggle to remember which town or which afternoon a shot belongs to, a stamped image answers that question permanently.

Photographers who want a clean image with nothing overlaid will find the whole premise at odds with their preference, and that is simply what the app is built to do. For everyone else, the question is whether visible location and time on the picture is useful or clutter. If it is useful, this app is organized around exactly that.

A utilitarian camera for people who need proof of place

GPS Camera with Time Stamp does one job and builds a small set of tools around it. It stamps photos and videos with location, date and time as you capture them, offers a range of stamp styles, and adds a photo grid, a compass and an Earth view for reviewing what you have recorded. It is free, and it carries ads.

The mixed rating is worth taking seriously, but so is the size of the install base and the clarity of the app's purpose. My recommendation is straightforward: if you are a surveyor, inspector, agent or crew member who needs location and time visible on every site photo, or a traveler who wants the same on holiday pictures, this is a reasonable tool to try. If you want your images untouched, the stamped output is the entire point, and you already know how you feel about that.