Annotable vs ScrollingScreenshot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
ScrollingScreenshot
Capture long scrolling screenshots with ease. This application allows you to take extended images of web pages or documents that exceed the normal screen height. Perfect for saving entire conversations or articles in one image.
- Take scrolling screenshots
- Capture long images
- Save entire conversations
- Save full articles
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The first app to help you to take scrolling screenshot.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Annotable at 4.6 against ScrollingScreenshot's 3.2. Annotable also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 35%) and ratings volume (894 vs 85). ScrollingScreenshot's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, 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. Annotable sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and ScrollingScreenshot sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Annotable holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Annotable has 894 ratings behind it against 85, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Annotable's written reviews are positive against 35% of ScrollingScreenshot's.
Annotable ships an update every 2 months, ScrollingScreenshot every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Annotable | ScrollingScreenshot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (894 ratings) — better | 3.2 (85 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.3% of reviews — better | 35.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 894 — better | 85 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 凌 王 | 世品 周 |
Customer experience
Annotable
ScrollingScreenshot
User reviews
Annotable
From 894 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
ScrollingScreenshot
From 85 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works well for screenshots
- 🚀 Fast and efficient
- 💡 Free crop tool is useful
- 👍 Stitching function works great
- 👍 Good quality for JPG screenshots
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Force closing issues
- 🐛 Scrolling screenshot not working
- 🐛 False advertising on features
- 🐛 UI changes are redundant
Bugs and requests
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
ScrollingScreenshot
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes
- Force closing
- Scrolling screenshot not working
- Blurry saved screenshots
- Error message after recording
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- Quality drops when shared on WhatsApp
- Camera stops working
- Recorder stopped working due to 'null'
- Incomplete screenshots
- Doesn't automatically stop
- Cannot use recording on iPhone 6
Requested features
9 requests- Bring back the old design
- Update app for latest iOS
- Support for iPad Pro
- More awesome features in the future
- Fix quality drop when sharing on WhatsApp
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- Fix bug where camera stops working
- Fix bug where recorder stops working due to 'null'
- Fix incomplete screenshots
- Clearer explanation of version differences
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
ScrollingScreenshot
- Standard Edition$0.99
- Upgrade to Pro2 variants$1.99
- iPhone Edition$1.99
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- Upgrade to Pro$2.99
- iPad Edition$2.99
- Pro Edition$4.99
Questions
Is Annotable free?
Is ScrollingScreenshot free?
Which has better reviews, Annotable or ScrollingScreenshot?
Do Annotable or ScrollingScreenshot have ads?
Which is updated more often, Annotable or ScrollingScreenshot?
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