Comparison

Annotable vs CapCut

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

CapCut

Create professional-looking videos with a wide range of editing tools, including advanced features like keyframe animation, chroma key, and stabilization. Add text, effects, music, and auto-generated captions to make your content stand out on social media.

Highlights
  • Keyframe animation
  • Smooth slow-motion
  • Chroma key
  • Stabilization
  • Auto captions
  • Background removal
  • Trending effects & filters
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CapCut offers easy-to-use video editing functions, in-APP fonts and effects, advanced features such as keyframe animation, smooth slow-motion, chroma key, and stabilization, to help you capture and snip moments. Create fancy videos with other unique features: auto captions, text-to-speech, motion tracking, and background removal. Show your personality and go viral on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook! FEATURES Basic video editing • Trim and shorten clips and split or merge videos. • Adjust video speed from 0.1x to 100x, and apply speed curves to clips. • Animate video clips with incredible zoom in/out effects. • Highlight the best moments with the freeze feature. • Explore transition options with awesome effects on and between clips. Advanced video editor • Keyframe video animation is available for all settings. • Edit videos to create smooth slow-motion with the optical flow feature and speed curve tool. • Use the chroma key to remove specific colors from videos. • Easy to arrange and preview clips on multi-track timeline. • The stabilizing feature keeps video footage steady. Intelligent features • Auto captions: automate speech recognition and subtitles in videos. • Text-to-speech: apply text-to-speech in multiple languages and voices. • Background removal: automatically remove backgrounds. Text & Stickers • Add text to videos with different fonts and styles, choose unique text templates. Fonts can be imported locally. • Subtitles can be added to the timeline of video tracks and can be moved and adjusted in one step. Trending Effects & Filters • Match video content with diverse filters that are updated weekly with the latest trends. • Edit videos with hundreds of trending effects, including Glitch, Blur, 3D, etc. • Add movie-style video filters or adjust video brightness, contrast, etc. Music & Sound Effects • Add millions of music clips and sound effects to videos. • Extract audio, clips, and recordings from videos. Easy to Share • Custom video export resolution, HD video editor supports 4K 60fps exports and smart HDR. • Adjust the format and share with your friends on social media platforms. CapCut is an all-in-one video editor and video maker application with everything you need to create stunning, high-quality videos. Beginners can get started with CapCut in a matter of seconds, while advanced users can enjoy all the functions they need to edit videos. Terms of Service — https://www.capcut.com/clause/terms-of-service Privacy Policy — https://www.capcut.net/clause/privacy Contact Us Any questions about CapCut? Please contact us at capcut.support@bytedance.com. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capcutapp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capcutapp YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/capcutofficial TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capcut

Screenshots

Annotable4 screens
CapCut4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CapCut at weekly against Annotable's every 2 months. CapCut also leads on ratings volume (1.1M vs 954) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). Annotable's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 49%). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Annotable sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and CapCut sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Annotable against 4.6 for CapCut. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CapCut has 1.1M ratings behind it against 954, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Annotable's written reviews are positive against 49% of CapCut's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Annotable ships an update every 2 months, CapCut weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Annotable versus CapCut: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnnotableCapCut
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (954 ratings) — better4.6 (1.1M ratings)
Positive reviews75.3% of reviews — better49.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9541.1M — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#1 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB793 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer凌 王Bytedance Pte. Ltd

Customer experience

Annotable

All ratings885 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.2%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews190 reviews
Positive75.3%
Neutral5.8%
Negative18.9%

CapCut

All ratings1,125,151 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews18,762 reviews
Positive49.0%
Neutral9.6%
Negative41.4%

User reviews

Annotable

From 954 App Store ratings

What 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

CapCut

From 1.1M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Beginner-friendly
  • 🚀 Efficient editing
  • 👍 Extensive effects and templates
  • 🚀 Fast rendering

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Laggy performance
  • 🐛 Glitchy behavior
  • 💰 Excessive monetization
  • 🐛 Unreliable storage management
  • 🐛 Buggy audio/video synchronization

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

CapCut

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Deleted projects not recoverable
  • Camera/video recording issues
  • Inconsistent performance across devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved slow motion feature
  • More advanced editing tools (e.g. graphs, custom transitions)
  • Better audio editing capabilities
  • Organizational features (e.g. folders, project management)
  • Expanded language support

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Annotable

One-time8
  • 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
28 purchases

CapCut

Subscriptions21
  • capcut cloud space$1.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$5.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription3 variants$7.991 Month
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  • MonthlySubscription—7days free7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial3 variants$7.991 Month
  • Standard Monthly Subscription1 Month trial4 variants$9.991 Month
  • Standard Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$10.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$19.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$19.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly Subscription$19.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial2 variants$19.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$62.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$89.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Standard Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Annual Subscriptions1 Year trial$89.991 Year
One-time7
  • Template Editing$0.49
  • Make Reservation$0.99
  • One-month PRO$11.99
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  • One Month Standard$11.99
  • One- year PRO$54.99
  • One-year Standard$77.00
  • One-year Pro$77.00

Questions

Is Annotable free?
Annotable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CapCut free?
CapCut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Annotable or CapCut?
Annotable is rated higher. Annotable averages 4.6 out of 5 from 954 ratings, while CapCut averages 4.6 from 1.1M ratings.
Do Annotable or CapCut have ads?
Neither Annotable nor CapCut shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Annotable or CapCut?
Annotable ships an update every 2 months, and CapCut weekly. Most recently, Annotable was updated on October 22, 2026 and CapCut on October 31, 2026.

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