Comparison

Snap Markup vs Widgets Now

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Snap Markup

Easily edit and annotate photos, images, and pictures with a wide array of tools. Add text, shapes, stickers, blur sensitive areas, and magnify details. Save in high quality and share your creations quickly.

Highlights
  • Crop and rotate images in various shapes
  • Add text with customizable styles
  • Pixelate and blur sensitive areas
  • Magnify sections with a loupe
  • Add emoji stickers
  • Draw arrows, shapes, and freehand lines
  • Stitch photos into panoramas
Features
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Snap Markup — Photo Markup & Editor Turn any photo into a polished, annotated image in seconds. Mark up screenshots, documents, receipts, real estate, and snapshots with on-device AI, pro editing tools, and effortless sharing — all in one app. ALL-IN-ONE MARKUP Crop, rotate, draw, add text, stickers, and overlays from one toolbar. Reorder tools in Settings so your favourites are always one tap away. DOCUMENT SCANNER Scan multi-page documents with auto edge detection and straightening. Export as a clean image or searchable PDF. COLLAGE MAKER Combine multiple photos into beautiful grid layouts with adjustable spacing, borders, and ratios. GIF MAKER Turn photos or video clips into animated GIFs. Add text, stickers, and overlays, then export a ready-to-share loop. BATCH RESIZE & EXPORT Resize multiple photos at once. Set custom dimensions and DPI for print or web, and export to PNG, JPG, or HEIC. PHOTO SPLITTER Slice an image into a grid for seamless social posts and carousels. SMART CROP & ROTATE On-device AI detects documents and faces and suggests the perfect crop. Free, fixed-ratio, and shape crops (rectangle, circle, star, triangle). Rotate, flip, or auto-straighten skewed documents. ADJUST & AUTO ENHANCE Fine-tune brightness, contrast, saturation, and exposure with live sliders, or tap Auto Enhance. Cinematic filters in one tap. BACKGROUND BLUR & COLOUR Powered by Apple Vision AI — blur the background for a portrait look, or swap it for any solid colour. ANNOTATE LIKE A PRO Arrows, shapes, lines, freehand pen, curves, and numbered step callouts. Customise stroke colour, thickness, and opacity. Annotate large images without cropping first. HIGHLIGHT & HIDE Spotlight key details, or pixelate sensitive info — faces, addresses, account numbers — before sharing. TEXT, STICKERS & OVERLAYS Full text styling with drag, pinch, and rotate. Emoji and shape stickers, plus photo overlays — long-press to remove a background on device. MORE TOOLS Date & location stamp, measurement ruler, speech bubbles, OCR text extraction, code scanner, translate, signature, watermark, frame, collage, photo stitch, webpage & map capture, blank canvas, and searchable PDF export. SHARE WITHOUT FRICTION Save to Photos or Files, print, copy, set as wallpaper, or share anywhere. Export lossless PNG, high-quality JPG, or HEIC. Generate custom PDFs with your choice of name, quality, and orientation. 76 LANGUAGES & THEMES Fully localised in 76 languages. Light, Dark, and Auto themes. PRIVACY FIRST All AI processing runs on device. Your photos never leave your iPhone or iPad. Feedback or suggestions? Contact us at support@appculus.com — we'd love to hear from you.

About

Widgets Now

Features
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Widget Now is a widget studio — and a way to keep one number in front of the people who share it with you. DESIGN YOUR OWN WIDGETS Start from 21 widget types: clocks, world clocks, calendars, countdowns, live weather, sunrise and sunset, moon phase, activity rings, steps, water, photos, battery, reminders, quotes and more. Then make them yours with 14 theme presets, 16 gradients, solid colours and photo backgrounds, 20 typefaces, and adjustable corners, padding and borders — with a live preview that updates as you edit. Every design works on both the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. TRACK ONE NUMBER TOGETHER Pick something you and someone else both care about — miles run, waters drunk, deals closed, pages read, days sober, money saved — and Widget Now keeps it in sync between you. Everyone's contributions roll into a single total with a leaderboard, and that number lands on every surface iOS offers: • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • A full-screen dashboard when you AirPlay to an Apple TV Invite someone with a link, a message or a QR code. When they tap it, an App Clip shows them the group straight away — they can put it on their Lock Screen before installing anything. LIVE ACTIVITIES Design timers, event countdowns, progress trackers and live counters in your own colours and symbols, then run them on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. SYNCS WITH ICLOUD Your designs follow you across iPhone and iPad automatically. Shared groups sync to everyone in the group, and updates arrive on their own — no refresh button. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no sign-ups, and no servers of ours. Everything lives in your own iCloud. What you share is limited to the people you share it with, and the contents of a shared group are stored encrypted. Widget Now collects no analytics and shows no ads.

Screenshots

Snap Markup4 screens
Widgets Now4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Widgets Now at Free against Snap Markup's $1.99. Snap Markup's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Widgets Now is free to download; Snap Markup costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Snap Markup versus Widgets Now: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnap MarkupWidgets Now
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (3.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRaghvendra BhargavaAmol Srivastava

Bugs and requests

Snap Markup

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Keyboard issues and disappearing controls
  • Inconsistent behavior when drawing or adding text
  • Saving and exporting problems
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to move and edit annotations
  • Improve text editing and formatting options
  • Implement more advanced markup tools (e.g. curved arrows, rounded shapes)
  • Allow color customization and recent color history
  • Integrate with cloud storage and sharing

Widgets Now

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Snap Markup

No in-app purchases

None

Widgets Now

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snap Markup free?
Snap Markup costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Widgets Now free?
Widgets Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Snap Markup or Widgets Now have ads?
Neither Snap Markup nor Widgets Now shows ads.

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