This vs Annotable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
This
Enhance your photos by adding labels, descriptions, and commentary. This app offers a clean interface with customizable pointers and automatic text optimization for clarity. Share your annotated images easily across various social media platforms and messaging apps.
- Add pointers, labels, and descriptions
- 7 expressive pointer designs
- Adjustable pointer size and position
- Automatic text legibility optimization
- Save and share to social media
- Clean, minimal design
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Tell the whole story by adding pointers, labels, descriptions, and commentary to your photos. FEATURES: • Awarded “App Store Best of 2016” by Apple • From Tinrocket, creator of Waterlogue (App Store Best of 2014) and Olli (App Store Best of 2017) • Clean, minimal design • Simple, interactive, and fun to use • 7 expressive pointer designs to suit your mood • Easily add, delete, re-size, or re-position pointers • Automatically optimizes text legibility • Save to your phone or share via Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon, Message, Email, and more WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS BY TINROCKET: “App Store Best of 2016" —Apple “App Store Pick of the Week” —Starbucks “This for iOS makes adding simple annotations to photos dead simple”—Lifehacker “This is an absurdly easy way to add information to photos and send them away.”—MacStories KEEP UP WITH TINROCKET: • Follow @Tinrocket on Instagram for the latest! • We’re here to help: If you have a question or need assistance, you can always email us at support@tinrocket.com • If you like “This,” please consider leaving an App Store review or rating. Every review counts and helps indie developers like ourselves.
Annotable
This app provides a comprehensive suite of tools for annotating and marking up images. It offers a wide range of customization options for common annotation elements and unique features like text highlighting on screenshots. The app supports various iOS system integrations for a seamless user experience.
- Common annotation tools (rectangles, text, arrows)
- Customizable colors, sizes, and fonts
- Blur and pixelation for obscuring information
- Spotlights and Loupes for highlighting
- Text highlighting on screenshots
- High-resolution output
- Support for all image types
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Annotable is the most full-featured all-in-one image annotation tool. Featured by Apple in many places: ● Best of 2016 ● New Apps We Love ● Best Apps to Edit Your Photos ● Best Productivity Apps ● Best Utilities "I’ve finally found the best all-in-one image annotation tool for iOS – Annotable for iPhone and iPad." —— Federico Viticci of MacStories Features (many are free, some are unlocked with purchases): ◉ All the expected common tools: rectangles, ovals, arrows, lines and texts. ◉ Fully customizable: colors, sizes, outlines, fonts… ◉ Stylishly obscure private information with Blur and Pixelation. ◉ Or on the contrary, highlight something with Spotlights. ◉ If you really want to focus on a particular spot use a Loupe. ◉ You can even highlight text on screenshots of apps like Notes, Twitter, and Safari. It feels like magic, and can really save the day when you want to share a web page screenshot with some words highlighted but forgot to select the words when you took the screenshot. ◉ Fully support Action Extension, Photo Editing Extension, Edits Sync via iCloud Photo Library, URL Schemes, 3D Touch, Wide Color…Annotable utilizes your powerful iOS system to the extreme. Distinctions from many other similar Apps: ◆ All the results are high-resolution images. ◆ Not only screenshots but all images are supported. ◆ Large images can be directly annotated and do not have to be cropped.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Annotable at Free against This's $2.99. This's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and review sentiment (86% vs 75%). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Annotable is free to download; This costs $2.99 up front. Annotable sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. This asks for nothing beyond the download.
This holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 530 and 954 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of This's written reviews are positive against 75% of Annotable's.
This ships an update every 5 weeks, Annotable every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | This | Annotable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (530 ratings) — better | 4.6 (954 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.6% of reviews — better | 75.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 530 | 954 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tinrocket, LLC | 凌 王 |
Customer experience
This
Annotable
User reviews
This
From 530 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 💡 Elegant and minimalist design
- 🚀 Quick and efficient annotations
- 🎨 Clean and professional-looking results
- 📷 Useful for various applications (real estate, tutorials, etc.)
Room to improve
- 🔍 Limited customization options (colors, fonts, etc.)
- 🔀 Difficulty precisely positioning annotations
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or compatibility issues
Annotable
From 954 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Game changer
- 🚀 Excellent—the built-in iOS markup features pale in comparison
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Fantastic!
- 👍 Amazing App
Room to improve
- 🐛 Blur broken ios26
- 🔒 Can't undo
- 💰 Paid app, free version is worthless
- 💰 Everything is locked behind a pay wall
- 💰 Extremely frustrating to use
Bugs and requests
This
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashing when saving to Photos
- Annotations not aligning properly on certain backgrounds
Requested features
4 requests- Additional color options for annotations
- Ability to add multiple lines or brackets from a single point
- Option to save original and annotated images separately
- Support for larger screen sizes and newer devices
Annotable
Reported bugs
5 issues- Blur broken ios26
- Can't save edits on iPad Pro, 14.5.1
- In-App Purchases do not work
- Loss of work
- App freezes occasionally on iPad
Requested features
15 requests- Open the app directly to the camera
- Save images to the app, not to my phone or make a specific folder to save Annotated images
- Make a Mac version
- Add insert photo option
- Add flexible pointers lines
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- Add an eraser
- Add undo/redo action buttons
- Add crop
- Add a way to adjust transparency of fonts for watermarking
- Add rotate image
- Add a way to draw solid boxes with a color of your choosing
- Add a way to adjust text size
- Add a way to center the text
- Add a way to insert and resize images
- Add a way to make shapes a solid color in addition to outline
In-app purchases
This
No in-app purchases
Annotable
- Color Customization$1.99
- Text Highlighter & Redaction Tool$1.99
- All Obscuration Styles$1.99
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- Blur Tool$1.99
- Spotlight Tool$1.99
- Loupe Tool$1.99
- All Text Styles & Fonts$1.99
- All Features$9.99









