Add a date and time stamp to photos
Print the date and time on photos you already took. By default each photo gets its own capture time, read from the photo. Several photos at once, free, and nothing is uploaded.
🔒 Your photos never leave your device. The stamp is drawn in your browser.
Preview
How to add a date and time stamp to a photo
- Add your photos. Tap the box and choose them from your library or files, or drop them on the box.
- Check the date line under each photo. “From the photo” means the camera recorded when it was taken. If a photo has no capture date (screenshots, images saved from websites and many messaging apps), you choose what to do with it.
- Pick the look. Date format, corner, size and color. The preview shows the first photo you pick, and updates as you change things.
- Download. One photo downloads as a JPEG. Several photos download as one zip file.
Adding the date to a photo that is already taken
This is what the tool is for. The stamp uses the capture time stored in the photo, the same one you would see in the Photos app. If you see the “no capture date” note, the photo was probably saved or sent through something that removed its metadata. Use the photo date checker to see what a file contains, and find the original on the phone that took it if you can.
The time is printed as the camera's clock showed it. The tool does not convert between time zones.
Adding a location
The tool can print GPS coordinates when the photo has them, and a second line of text that you type, such as a place name. It does not look up an address for you, and it cannot add a location to a photo that was not tagged.
Important: a printed stamp, and even metadata, can be changed by anyone with free software, so a stamped photo is not proof of when or where it was taken. For why, and for what is stronger, read can photo metadata be changed?
Questions
Does adding a timestamp prove when the photo was taken?
No. A stamp is just text drawn on the picture. Anyone can type any date, and a stamp added afterwards says nothing about when the photo was really taken. It can help a viewer see the date at a glance, but it is not proof. Stronger evidence is the original file with its metadata, plus things that agree with it, like cloud backup records or messages sent at the time. See how to prove when a photo was taken.
Where does the date come from?
By default, from the photo itself: the capture time the camera wrote into the file (the EXIF DateTimeOriginal field). If a photo has no capture date, the tool says so and you choose: the file's date (which may not be when the photo was taken) or a date you type. There is also a separate switch to use a custom date for every photo. We never fill in a custom date for you.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The stamp is drawn in your browser and the new files are created on your device. Nothing is sent to a server, and you can switch to airplane mode after the page loads and it still works.
Is the original date kept in the stamped file?
For JPEG photos, yes: the original metadata (capture date, camera, and so on) is copied into the stamped file, so the real capture date is still there, with the rotation and size fields updated. There is a checkbox to leave the GPS location out. Photos in other formats, such as HEIC or PNG, are saved as JPEG without their original metadata.
Can I add the location to a photo?
If a photo has GPS coordinates, you can print them on the picture with one checkbox, and you can type a place name or note as a second line. The tool does not look up addresses and does not add a location to a photo that has none; it only prints what is in the file or what you type.
Why is my HEIC photo not opening?
HEIC is the format iPhones use by default. iPhone Safari normally gives web pages a JPEG when you pick from the photo library, but many desktop browsers cannot display HEIC. On a computer, export the photo as JPEG first (for example from the Photos app) and add that file here.
What about very large photos?
Photos up to 24 megapixels are saved at full size. Bigger ones (48 MP and up) are scaled down automatically so that phones and browsers do not run out of memory. You can also pick a smaller size yourself.
Not legal advice. A date stamp may help you organize or explain your photos, but whether it matters in a dispute depends on the situation and on the rules that apply.
An iPhone camera that dates photos as you take them
A stamp added after the fact is only text on a picture. The app we are building will record the date, time and place at the moment you take the photo, and sign it.
We'll email you once when the app launches. No spam. The app does not exist yet — here is what it will do.