Exif Notes

Tommi Hirvonen

About this app

Exif Notes let's you quickly save important notes and exif data when shooting with film. It allows you to add frequently used gear such as camera bodies and lenses to your database. These can then be selected when adding new rolls of film and when adding new frames. When adding new frames you can save information such as time taken, lens used, shutter speed, aperture, location, custom notes and more.

You can export ExifTool commands for specific film rolls. You can upload these to Dropbox for example and download them on your computer. You can save the exif data to your scanned files on your computer using ExifTool by Phil Harvey and the ready made commands. In addition to the ExifTool commands you can export a roll's data in .csv format. You can then use a spreadsheet programme like Excel on your computer to view the data in an easily readable format.

Exif Notes is a continuous work in progress and new features are added with future versions. There are other Android apps that let you do the same thing as Exif Notes. The objective of Exif Notes is to be fast and easy to use as well as easy on the eyes. It was born out of love for film and out of interest for programming. Exif Notes is a hobby project that I have been developing on my spare time. However, it is developed with good practices and complies with Material Design while being compatible with most Android devices.

Bug reports and feature requests can be made by creating an issue in the project repository on GitHub:
https://github.com/tommi1hirvonen/ExifNotes

Also join the discussion at:
https://github.com/tommi1hirvonen/ExifNotes/discussions

Any feedback is welcome and much appreciated.

Ratings and reviews

Incredibly useful app for film photographers who like their metadata. Works quite well in general, but with a number of small quirks: don't need to unlock to add a frame, but do to take a photo to store with it, which leads to an awkward minimize-unlock-open workflow; rolls are only active or archived, so completed but not scanned rolls clutter up the active list; exiftool output is for Windows and requires some hand editing for unix; etc. None of these are blockers, just nits in a good app.

This is a perfect tool for a film photographer. This is great for keeping notes on the films, cameras/lenses used, camera/lens settings, speedlite used. Has a lot of options to add information on each photo taken (flash used, location, related photo, etc). Another great feature is the ability to export and import the database of (.db) and the related photos for your full database. So you can easily and quickly transfer the database to another Android phone.

This is exactly what I was looking for! I would like to make a suggestion though. For some of my Olympus lenses they have odd aperture steps, for example, 1.8, 2, 2.8, 4, etc. the current implemention of adding lenses forces the user to commit to, say 1-stop increments, but doesn't allow for these unusual lenses where the pattern is: 1/2 stop, 1 stop, 1 stop, 1 stop, etc. It would be nice to allow custom f-stops that are outside of the indicated increment.

What’s new

- Targeting Android 17