ProtoPie Player vs Touch Annotator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ProtoPie Player
This app lets you view and test interactive prototypes created with ProtoPie Studio on your mobile devices. Access prototypes from the cloud, save them locally for offline use, and utilize native device features within your designs.
- View and test prototypes on iOS/iPadOS
- Access prototypes via cloud or local storage
- Utilize native device features (camera, gyro)
- Control prototype playback speed
- Connect via WiFi or USB to Studio
- Open prototypes with shareable links
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ProtoPie Player is a free companion app to ProtoPie Studio, a code-free prototyping tool on macOS & Windows. View, experience, and test prototypes on iOS and iPadOS easily. Access prototypes in the Cloud, save prototypes locally, and more—all from your iPhone or iPad. Ideal for yourself, your colleagues, stakeholders, clients, or users. ProtoPie Player is perfect for quickly testing prototypes made with ProtoPie, getting prototypes in anyone’s hands, and (remote) usability testing. To open prototypes on your iPhone or iPad, connect ProtoPie Player to ProtoPie Studio via WiFi or USB. Or just log in with your ProtoPie account to access your prototypes in the cloud. Also, it’s possible to open any prototype on your iPhone or iPad with a shareable link or shared via any other third-party solution—without connecting to ProtoPie Studio. With ProtoPie Player, you can: - Open any prototypes—shared via ProtoPie Cloud, email, Google Drive, Slack, or any other messaging and storage solution. - Use the iPhone and iPad their native capabilities in prototypes, e.g., camera, gyroscope, microphone, and more. - Control the play speed: slow down the prototype to experience the interactions with more detail. - Access prototypes in ProtoPie Cloud. - Save prototypes locally for offline usage ProtoPie Player is part of the ProtoPie ecosystem. ProtoPie is a prototyping tool to easily turn your interaction design ideas into realistic prototypes. Create interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, and IoT. Get started with ProtoPie today!
Touch Annotator
This tool simplifies image annotation for object detection tasks. It automatically handles annotation formatting and offers intuitive controls for managing bounding boxes and labels. Choose from multiple export formats to seamlessly integrate with various machine learning frameworks.
- Automatic annotation formatting
- Delete bounding boxes by holding
- Rename labels and update all boxes
- Select label by tapping a bounding box
- Multiple export formats (Create ML, Turi Create, CSV)
- Request new format options
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Touch annotator is an image annotation platform for object detection. It automatically manages formatting the annotations. Touch Annotator also has some other useful features: 1. the ability to delete bounding boxes by holding them. 2. the ability to rename label by holding label. This renames all previously created bounding boxes. 3. the ability to select a label by tapping on a bounding box that belongs to it. The app lets you choose the format of your annotations. This is to save you the work of having to reformat the results before using them with a framework. Currently, Touch annotator supports: 1. Create ML 2. Turi Create 3. CSV with the origin on the top left corner 4. CSV with the origin on the bottom left corner 5. CSV with the origin on the bottom right corner 6. CSV with the origin on the top right corner more formats are going to be added over time. To request a format, please reach out to us at support@intersection.software
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ProtoPie Player at Free against Touch Annotator's $5.99. ProtoPie Player also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (27 vs 1). Touch Annotator's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.2). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
ProtoPie Player is free to download; Touch Annotator costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ProtoPie Player holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ProtoPie Player has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of ProtoPie Player's written reviews are positive against 60% of Touch Annotator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ProtoPie Player ships an update every 6 weeks, Touch Annotator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ProtoPie Player | Touch Annotator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (27 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio XID | Intersection Bioscientific Software Inc. |
Customer experience
ProtoPie Player
Touch Annotator
In-app purchases
ProtoPie Player
No in-app purchases
Touch Annotator
No in-app purchases
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