Comparison

Snap Markup vs NuKey

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

NuKey

Create a personalized typing experience with custom colors, key styles, and animated lighting. Choose from a variety of mechanical switch sounds to enhance your typing feel. Save and share your unique keyboard designs.

Highlights
  • Custom keyboard designs
  • Ready-made themes
  • Animated lighting effects
  • Mechanical switch sounds
  • Personalized key legends
  • Emoji browsing
  • Shareable designs via QR codes
Features
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NuKey transforms your iPhone keyboard into a personalised typing experience that looks, sounds and feels like your own. Create a custom keyboard by choosing colours, key styles, legends and animated lighting effects. Add satisfying mechanical switch sounds inspired by popular switch types, then preview your creation before you start typing. Features include: • Build and save custom keyboard designs • Choose from ready-made themes • Add animated keyboard lighting effects • Enjoy a collection of mechanical switch sounds • Personalise key legends and layouts • Browse and type emoji with ease • Add your own words for a more personal typing experience • Select your preferred keyboard language • Share keyboard designs using QR codes • Preview sounds and themes inside the app Whether you prefer a clean, understated keyboard or something colourful and expressive, NuKey gives you the tools to make every tap your own. Some themes, sounds and customisation features may require NuKey Pro.

Screenshots

Snap Markup4 screens
NuKey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NuKey at Free against Snap Markup's $1.99. NuKey also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 months). Snap Markup's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (3.5K vs 40). On rating, review sentiment and ads 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

NuKey is free to download; Snap Markup costs $1.99 up front. NuKey sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Snap Markup asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Snap Markup against 4.5 for NuKey. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Snap Markup has 3.5K ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Snap Markup's written reviews are positive against 70% of NuKey's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snap Markup ships an update every 3 months, NuKey daily. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Snap Markup versus NuKey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnap MarkupNuKey
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (3.5K ratings) — better4.5 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews72.0% of reviews — better70.4% of reviews
Number of ratings3.5K — better40
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB33 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRaghvendra BhargavaSean Kelly

Customer experience

Snap Markup

All ratings3,526 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews286 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral7.7%
Negative20.3%

NuKey

All ratings40 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive70.4%
Neutral7.4%
Negative22.2%

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

NuKey

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Snap Markup

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

NuKey

One-time4
  • Nice One$1.99
  • Very Kind$4.99
  • NuKey Pro$8.99
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  • Legend$9.99

Questions

Is Snap Markup free?
Snap Markup costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is NuKey free?
NuKey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Snap Markup or NuKey?
Snap Markup is rated higher. Snap Markup averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while NuKey averages 4.5 from 40 ratings.
Do Snap Markup or NuKey have ads?
Neither Snap Markup nor NuKey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Snap Markup or NuKey?
Snap Markup ships an update every 3 months, and NuKey daily. Most recently, Snap Markup was updated on October 15, 2026 and NuKey on October 13, 2026.

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