GPS Photo: With Location & Map

Review by eFreeware

GPS Photo: With Location & Map is a free Android camera and gallery utility from Galaxy studio apps, filed under Travel & Local. Its whole purpose is to attach place information to pictures: coordinates, the current weather and a small map view can be burned into the image itself, so the photo carries its context wherever it is shared. The app has more than 10 million installs and a 4.3 average from over 121,000 ratings, which suggests the idea lands with a lot of people.

The reason to consider it is simple. Most phone cameras record location data quietly in the file, where it is invisible to anyone who looks at the picture. This app makes that information part of the picture, and then gives you a map to browse the results on. If you take photos away from home and later struggle to remember where each one came from, that combination is the pitch.

Where stamped photos make sense

The clearest fit is travel and outdoor activity. A hike, a road trip, a day of sightseeing: these produce clusters of images that look alike, and a stamp with the place name, coordinates and weather turns a generic view into something you can place months later. The travel-themed layouts and map views are built for exactly that.

It also suits people who document work away from an office. Someone visiting sites, surveying property, inspecting equipment or keeping a record of deliveries can end up with a set of pictures that need to be tied to a location, and an image with the address and coordinates printed on it does that without a separate note. The same applies to anyone keeping a personal record of places that matter to them, from gardens to fishing spots.

Gallery import widens the audience further. Photos already on the phone that carry location data can be pulled in, and the app retrieves that information automatically; where it is missing or wrong, details can be added or edited by hand. That makes it useful as a tidying tool for an existing camera roll, not only as a camera for new shots.

What the camera puts on a photo

The core function is capture with information attached. As you shoot, the app embeds latitude and longitude along with the weather conditions at that moment, and it adds a timestamp at the same time. The layout is customizable, and it can include a map view and the address alongside the coordinates. The result is a photo that reads like a small record rather than a bare image.

How much of that you want on any given picture is a matter of taste. A full block of coordinates, address, map and weather is informative but takes up space, while a minimal stamp keeps the image cleaner. Because the layouts are adjustable, the app can serve both someone building a detailed log and someone who only wants a discreet date and place marker.

The camera needs access to the camera itself, to storage for managing the gallery, and to location so it can retrieve coordinates and the current place for the map. Those three permissions line up with what the app is doing.

Browsing a gallery on a map

The second half of the app is organization. Photos can be browsed on an interactive map, so instead of scrolling a chronological grid you move around a map and see what was taken where. The album organizer sorts pictures by date and by place, which is a sensible pairing for anyone whose camera roll mixes several trips.

For someone returning from a long journey with hundreds of images, this is the feature that does the most work. Seeing a cluster of pins in one city and a scatter along a coastline tells you more about a trip than a list of file names ever will, and it makes finding a specific shot quicker than hunting through thumbnails.

The map view depends on the location information being present, which is why the gallery import step matters. Photos with location data come in with their pins already in place; the rest can be filled in manually if you want them on the map.

Collages, grids and route drawing

Beyond single images, the app offers collage building with a range of grid designs. You can draw routes across the layout and add travel icons, which turns a set of photos into something closer to a trip summary. A collage of a day's walk with the path sketched between the shots is a different object from a plain photo grid.

This is the more decorative side of the app, and it is where the travel framing is strongest. It is not the reason most people would install a geotagging tool, but it gives the pictures a second life as something worth sharing rather than only filing away.

The pieces fit together in a logical order: capture with details attached, import and correct what is already on the phone, then browse the whole collection by place or assemble it into a grid. That is a fuller workflow than a simple timestamp camera offers.

What it costs and what comes with it

The app is free to download, and it carries advertising. It also offers in-app purchases. Those terms are worth weighing before you commit to using it as your main camera, since a camera you open constantly is a different proposition from an app you check occasionally.

The app has been on Google Play since December 26, 2018, and the most recent update is dated September 28, 2026. The install and rating figures suggest it has settled into a steady place.

If you only need an occasional stamped photo, the free version with ads is an easy thing to try. If you plan to shoot with it daily, the purchases are the part to look at first.

How it compares with the alternatives

The obvious comparison is the camera already on your phone. Most built-in cameras can record location data, and some can print a date on the image, but they generally stop there: no weather, no map block, no map-based browsing of the results. This app's advantage is that it treats the location as content rather than metadata.

A dedicated photo editor is the other route. You could stamp text onto pictures after the fact, but you would be typing coordinates and place names by hand for every shot, and you would have no map to sort them on afterward. The value here is the automatic capture of that information at the moment the photo is taken.

Note-taking and travel journal apps are a third option, and they handle narrative better than a photo stamp ever will. What they do not do is put the location inside the image file, which matters if the picture is going to be shared, printed or stored somewhere the app itself is not present. That portability is the strongest argument for this approach.

A geotagging tool for people who photograph places

I would point this app at travelers, hikers and anyone whose photos are tied to locations they want to remember, along with people who need a visual record of where a picture was taken for work. The combination of capture, map browsing and gallery import covers the whole job rather than just the shooting.

The caveats are straightforward. It is free with ads and in-app purchases. The features are built around place and time, so the app is at its best when location is the point of the picture. And it asks for camera, storage and location access, which is what a geotagging camera needs.

For the specific job of making a photo say where and when it was taken, this is a well-established option with a large user base. Anyone who wants their pictures to carry that information, and to be able to find them again on a map, will find it does what they need.