Geotag Photos Pro is winding down. Here is what to use instead.
Geotag Photos Pro did something simple and useful: the phone recorded where you went, and a desktop app wrote those positions into your photos. Its developer has announced that the service is winding down. The iPhone and Android apps are no longer available to install, and existing accounts, trip uploads and GPX exports keep working until at least 31 December 2027.
If you relied on it, you have time — but not forever. This page covers what to do with the trips you already have, and how to keep the same workflow going.
First: export your trips as GPX
While your account still works, export the trips you care about as GPX files. GPX is the standard format for GPS tracks, so the files are not tied to any one app: they open in mapping software, in Lightroom Classic, and in EasyGeotag. Keep them next to the photos from the same shoot, or in one folder of tracks.
The same workflow in EasyGeotag
EasyGeotag is built around exactly that split — a phone that records, and a bigger screen that writes:
- Record on iPhone. Start a trip, lock the phone and shoot. Points are logged by distance, or every 15 seconds to 5 minutes if you prefer to save battery. Recording is free and unlimited.
- Sync without an account. Trips travel through your own iCloud account and are saved as ordinary GPX files in iCloud Drive. There is no EasyGeotag account and no server of ours holding your routes.
- Geotag on Mac or iPad. Open the trip and a folder of photos. Every frame is matched to where you were, with a readout of how far it sat from the nearest real GPS point. Press Geotag and the coordinates, altitude, city, region and country are written into the files.
Your old exported trips work too: on Mac or iPad, choose Open GPX File… and use them exactly like a trip recorded in the app. See geotagging photos from a GPX file.
What carries over, and what is different
- Formats. JPEG and HEIC are written in place on Mac and iPad. RAW files (NEF, CR3, ARW, RAF, DNG and more) are written in place on the Mac with the bundled ExifTool; on iPad they get an XMP sidecar. Details.
- Camera clock. Set an offset to the second, or photograph your phone's clock once and let the app work it out. Why this matters.
- Safety. Files modified in place are copied to a backup folder first, and Restore Originals puts them back.
- Platforms. EasyGeotag is Apple-only: iPhone for recording, Mac and iPad for geotagging. If you need Windows, Linux or Android, it is not the right replacement.
Cost
The download is free, recording on iPhone is free, and you can geotag five photos to try it. One in-app purchase then unlocks unlimited geotagging on Mac and iPad, shared with your family. There is no subscription.
Requires macOS 15, iPadOS 18 or iOS 18. Geotag Photos Pro is a trademark of its owner; EasyGeotag is not affiliated with it.