Litterly, this app hurts my eyes. – EXIF Tool Review

Looks like a bad 2013 app… Oh, that is exactly what it is. The 1990 Windows 3 style fonts and icons not to mention a choice of background colors seemingly designed specifically to make the app hard to look at and consequentially hard to look at don't help. But this app suffers from much more serious problems, including possible unintentional data loss. As a general rule stay away from apps that have not been updated in four years. And specifically regarding this app just stay away… Portrait mode only. No access to IPTC metadata ot PLUS metadata or data added by other software. Name of program is confusingly similar to exiftool, a Perl package authored and maintained by Phil Harvey, and that is generally, if not universally praised by real professionals that work with image metadata on a daily basis. In either case, it's inexcusable for this author to be unaware of the real exiftool, or in the other case to have intentionally used the name. Horrible bug in "Edit interface" will delete data that looks as if it will be saved. Select metadata items to delete and a red X marks items for deletion. Unfortunately the red X can disappear from an item when it is outside the visible scroll view. However, internally the app will still delete this data whether it shows you a red x or not. This bug does not seem to appear in the other different interface for deleting metadata. Two ways to do the same thing in one simple app, why? Can only save one preset. Free version claims to allow testing on three photos, before upgrading to paid version. But still not all features can be tested. Have never seen such a horrible interface for editing data. Of course this app has a user interface, but to understand it requires redefining either "user" or "interface." 'Selected" really means "About to be deleted," and has nothing to do with "Selecting" photos, which is another app function. 'Switch," switches between the app's own photo library and your regular iOS photo library where all your photos are. But the next function, 'Photos" only shows the app's internal photo library (initially empty), even if you have your normal iOS Photos photo library selected. After changing or deleting metadata a photo can be sent directly to email or twitter, etc. Both versions the one with and the other without metadata are stored on your device, which may cause confusion. Buttons at the bottom allow you select some or all fields for deletion. But if you change your mind and wish to deselect all metadata fields, well that is a different button near the _top_ of the screen that had a completely different looking icon from the other two buttons. App allows you to enter and save nonsensical data: It is possible to save dates such as 2017:13:32 07:62:63. And GPS coordinates such as 185 degrees. Well if that's what you want to do, fine. Just don't change your mind. Going back to correct these "mistakes" was not possible. Instead the app closed every time the "Edit" option was selected. Apple should kill this app. Put it out of our misery. Until then, move on, there is nothing useful here.
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