Comparison

Annotable vs DAMA

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

DAMA

This app automatically detects and blurs private information like phone numbers, faces, and text in your images. It helps you quickly share screenshots and photos online without manually editing out sensitive details, preserving the image's aesthetic.

Highlights
  • Auto-detects private text
  • Blurs faces and QR codes
  • Hides phone numbers and emails
  • Redacts names and places
  • Includes annotation tools
  • On-device processing
Features
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DAMA hides the private information in your screenshots and photos — automatically, and without ever uploading them. All detection runs on your iPhone, even in airplane mode. Point it at a screenshot and it finds the faces, ID numbers, phone numbers, emails, QR codes and chat avatars on its own, then masks them in a single tap. Sending a copy of an ID or a contract? Lay a repeating watermark across the whole image so it can’t be reused anywhere else. # Detected Automatically - Phone numbers and email addresses - Faces, QR codes and barcodes - Chat avatars and nicknames - ID numbers, card numbers, tracking numbers and other long digits - License plates and IP addresses - Names, places and organizations (experimental) Tap any text in the image to mask that whole line. Or drag across the photo to mask any rectangle you like. # Masking Tools Color bar, pixelate, blur, marker and emoji — plus a unique “Hide Text” tool that erases text completely when the background is near-solid, so the result doesn’t even look redacted. # Full-Screen Watermark for Documents Sending a scan of your ID card, passport, driver’s license or diploma? A watermark tiled across the entire image makes the copy useless to anyone else. Type your own text — “For visa application only”, a name, a date — then adjust the size, color, opacity, angle and spacing until it reads clearly without covering what matters. Your settings are remembered for the next document. Like everything else in DAMA, this happens entirely on your iPhone — the scan never leaves the device. # EXIF Stripped on Share When you share from DAMA, the GPS coordinates, camera model and the rest of the EXIF/TIFF data are removed automatically. # Why We Built It We share screenshots and photos every day, and hiding the private parts by hand is slow and leaves the image ugly. DAMA does it in a tap and keeps the picture looking like a picture. # Privacy Policy Thanks to CoreML and the Vision framework, every detection runs on your device. DAMA never uploads your images, and works fully offline.

Screenshots

Annotable4 screens
DAMA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: DAMA at every 4 days against Annotable's every 2 months. Annotable's advantage is ratings volume (894 vs 169). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Annotable sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and DAMA sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 4.7 for DAMA. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Annotable has 894 ratings behind it against 169, 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 82% of DAMA's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Annotable ships an update every 2 months, DAMA every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Annotable versus DAMA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnnotableDAMA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (894 ratings)4.7 (169 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.3% of reviews81.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings894 — better169
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB41 MB
Age rating4++4
Developer凌 王Early Moon, LLC

Customer experience

Annotable

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

DAMA

All ratings169 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral3.6%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral7.9%
Negative10.5%

User reviews

Annotable

From 894 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

DAMA

From 169 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast and simple
  • 🔒 Effective privacy protection
  • 💡 Automatic recognition and censoring
  • 💰 Good value for money (free/affordable pro)

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent Pro access via Family Sharing
  • 🐛 Zooming and pinching issues
  • 🐛 Difficulty with precise manual selection
  • 🐛 Limited to rectangular selection
  • 🐛 Cannot access all photos on iOS 17

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

DAMA

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Pro status frequently disappears
  • Cannot access all photos on iOS 17
  • Auto-redaction preview differs from final edited photo
  • Redemption code purchase restore fails
  • Sharing button unresponsive
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  • Cannot exit editing page after sharing
  • Watermark appears even after purchasing Pro/lifetime membership
  • QR code detection failure
  • Cannot redact non-AI detected text/QR codes
  • Cannot precisely choose text to redact

Requested features

13 requests
  • Improve manual selection precision
  • Add freehand/brush selection mode
  • Implement undo/redo functionality
  • Add image cropping feature
  • Add multi-color option for redaction
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  • Improve long image support
  • Add watermark feature
  • Add Mac version
  • Improve automatic recognition for specific apps (e.g., WeChat screenshots)
  • Add pixelate brush stroke feature
  • Add rotate block function
  • Add copyright symbol and various font types for watermarks
  • Integrate with screenshot interface or share extension

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
1 purchases

DAMA

One-time1
  • Pro Version$4.99

Questions

Is Annotable free?
Annotable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DAMA free?
DAMA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Annotable or DAMA?
DAMA is rated higher. Annotable averages 4.6 out of 5 from 894 ratings, while DAMA averages 4.7 from 169 ratings.
Do Annotable or DAMA have ads?
Neither Annotable nor DAMA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Annotable or DAMA?
Annotable ships an update every 2 months, and DAMA every 4 days. Most recently, Annotable was updated on October 20, 2026 and DAMA on October 13, 2026.

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