Photag vs DrawPlus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Photag
This app offers quick and simple photo editing tools for everyday tasks. Easily crop, annotate, and convert images between formats. It's designed for fast, frustration-free image handling and sharing.
- Crop, rotate, and adjust images
- Draw, highlight, and annotate
- Convert between PNG, JPG, and WebP
- Capture new images with device camera
- Optimize images for sharing
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Photag is a clean, lightweight photo editor designed for quick fixes, clear communication, and effortless image handling. Whether you’re cropping a picture, marking up a screenshot, or converting images between formats, Photag keeps everything fast and frustration‑free. Edit Your Photos With Ease - Crop, rotate, and adjust your images with intuitive controls - Draw, highlight, and annotate in multiple colors - Add free‑form markings to call out important details - Perfect for screenshots, instructions, memes, and everyday edits Tag Your Photos Photag’s signature feature lets you "tag" your images by drawing directly on them. Highlight key areas, sketch ideas, or mark up photos for work, school, or fun. Convert Images Instantly - Convert between popular formats like PNG, JPG, and WebP - Reduce file sizes or prepare images for sharing with just a tap - Great for optimizing photos for social media, messaging, or storage Capture New Images - Snap photos directly using your device’s camera - Perfect for digitizing documents, receipts, artwork, and more Why Photag? - Fast, lightweight, and easy to use - No clutter, no unnecessary bloat - Designed for quick edits and real‑world workflows - Ideal for students, professionals, creators, and anyone who wants a simple, powerful photo tool
DrawPlus
Enhance your images with a comprehensive suite of annotation tools, including lines, text, and effects. Quickly create collages, stitch long screenshots, and read QR codes. Share your visual ideas for fun, home, school, or work.
- Extensive annotation tools (lines, text, effects)
- Fast tool switching with swipe gestures
- QR Code and Barcode Reader
- Photo collage creation
- Long screenshot stitching
- Action Extension and iCloud sync support
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A super-helpful image annotation tool for Free! DrawPlus is better than the one in the system. The interface is simple and beautiful. The annotation tool is easy to use. Features: POWERFUL TOOLS: Annotate now including line, dash line, curve line, arrow, twins arrow, curve arrow, rect, text, magnifier, spotlight, clip, blur effect and mosaic tools. DO FASTER & DO EASIER It’s like using shortcut in Photoshop, switch tools ever fast on a touch screen, just one swipe, the tools will automatic expand, keep swiping to switch, then release your finger to select. QR Code Reader and Scanner: The easiest and fastest QR Code and Barcode Reader COLLAGE: Many collage format bright up your photos. LONG SCREENSHOT: Automatically combine your screenshots into one full content image. SMALL WIDGETS, DOING A GREAT JOB Preview, Delete your photos right on widgets page, and the network activity monitor shows your device network status, upload/download speeds, received/sent data, storage in real time. ACTION EXTENSION: Fully support Action Extension, Photo Editing Extension, Edits Sync via iCloud Photo Library, URL Schemes. People everywhere use DrawPlus to help them visually share their thoughts with others. Here are a few ways you can use it, too: FOR FUN Mark up photos of silly, cool, or inspiring things you see and share them via social, email, SMS, and more. FOR HOME Annotate photos of your backyard to plan out your vegetable garden. FOR SCHOOL Share a diagram of the earth’s layers and have students label it with you FOR EVENTS Capture a map, mark it up, and share it with your friends to show them where you'll be. FOR WORK Open a PDF and highlight changes to skip the lengthy, confusing email chains and give clear feedback.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Photag at 5.0 against DrawPlus's 3.8. Photag also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%). DrawPlus's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Photag sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DrawPlus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Photag holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Photag's written reviews are positive against 64% of DrawPlus's.
Photag ships an update every 6 months, DrawPlus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Photag | DrawPlus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 64.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Stecklein | Nan Chao |
Customer experience
Photag
DrawPlus
In-app purchases
Photag
- Advertising Removal$1.99
DrawPlus
- Upgrade to Pro Version$0.99









