Snap Markup vs Kigen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Kigen
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Kigen keeps the expiry dates of the food in your kitchen and the supplies in your emergency kit in one list, and tells you before they run out. ■ From the second time, just scan the barcode Type a product name in once and the app ties it to that barcode on your device. Buy the same thing again and scanning fills the name in for you. Food and emergency supplies are things you buy over and over, so from the second time there is almost nothing left to type. On a first scan the app can also look the barcode up online. Plenty of products are not in the database, so if nothing comes back, type the name yourself — it will be there next time. ■ Read the printed date with the camera Point the camera at the date printed on the pack, or pick a photo of it. Recognition runs entirely on your iPhone: no image and no text leaves the device. Dates on food packs are often dot-printed, low contrast, or on a curved film, so the app does not fill the date in on its own. It lists the dates it read and you tap the right one. If none of them look right, type it in. ■ Emergency supplies get an early warning ・Emergency supplies … 60 days before the date ・Medicine … 30 days before ・Food and household items … the number of days you choose (3 by default) Restocking an emergency kit takes longer than a trip to the shop, so those items are flagged earlier. Notifications arrive at 9 in the morning. ■ Emergency supply check Choose how many people and how many days (3 or 7), and the app shows whether the water, staple food, portable toilets and gas canisters you have saved reach the guideline amounts, and how much more you would need. The guidelines are based on public sources such as the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture's food stockpiling guide. What your household needs depends on your situation, so treat them as a rough guide. ■ Use one, replace one — with a shopping list Tap "Use one" when you eat or use something. When the count reaches zero, the item drops off the list and goes onto your shopping list automatically. Tick it off when you buy it and add the new date straight away. The Stock tab shows what you have by category, so the oldest goes first. ■ See what you used up When you remove an item, mark it as used up or thrown away. A monthly record shows how much you managed to use, which helps you notice when you are buying too much. ■ Clear at a glance, even from the Home Screen The next item to expire sits at the top, with counts for expired items and those due within 7 days. The list is split into expired, due today, coming up and plenty of time, and can be filtered by category. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show what is next without opening the app. ■ Everything stays on your device, except one thing Product names, dates, counts and notes are all stored on your iPhone and are never sent anywhere. The one exception is the online product lookup: it sends the digits of the barcode and nothing else — no device identifier, none of your saved items — and you can switch it off in Settings. With it off, the app makes no network requests for lookups at all. The camera is used only for reading; nothing is recorded or uploaded. ■ Premium, bought once Up to 20 items can be saved without Premium. Premium lifts the limit on the number of items and removes the ads. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Please note: this app records dates and reminds you about them. Whether something is still fit to eat or use is your own call — the app does not judge food safety.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Kigen at Free against Snap Markup's $1.99. Snap Markup's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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
Kigen is free to download; Snap Markup costs $1.99 up front. Kigen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snap Markup asks for nothing beyond the download.
Snap Markup ships an update every 3 months, Kigen every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snap Markup | Kigen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raghvendra Bhargava | Kusama Yoshiki |
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
Kigen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Snap Markup
No in-app purchases
Kigen
- Premium (unlimited, no ads)$2.99


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