Annotable vs Annotium
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.
Annotium
Easily add notes, shapes, and highlights to your photos for technical fields. Illustrate, track, and share your work visually with a variety of annotation tools. Ideal for students, professionals, and anyone needing to explain visual information.
- Numerous built-in annotation tools
- Customizable shapes, text, and colors
- Highlighting and magnifying features
- Polygon with unlimited vertices
- Blur/Pixelate for sensitive info
- Measuring tools for lines and angles
- High-resolution image support
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Turn any photo into a clear visual explanation with Annotium. Mark up a photo or a screenshot in seconds. Annotate images for site inspections, repairs, lessons, product feedback, instructions, or everyday communication. Point out what matters, add context, and share an image that's easy to understand. ANNOTATE WITH PRECISION • Add arrows, lines, shapes, and text • Highlight details with Spotlight and Loupe • Show dimensions and angles with measurement tools • Draw directly when a quick sketch works best • Snap to 0°, 45°, 90°, or 180° so every line stays straight • Align shapes on an adjustable grid, or start from a blank A4 page PROTECT AND PRESENT • Blur or pixelate private information • Censor a face, a name, a plate, or an address before you send the photo • Use Mosaic for free, and unlock Crystallize, Mezzotint, Pointillize, and Color Halftone with PRO • Erase or crop a freeform area with Lasso Select (PRO) • Crop and combine images to add more context • Organize annotations into editable projects • Export and share the result as an image or PDF TOOLS FOR EVERY DETAIL • Create lines, curves, arrows, rectangles, ovals, rounded rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, polygons, arcs, coordinate shapes, rings, and freehand drawings • Use unlimited vertices in polygons, lines, and curves • Select Multiple shapes to move, copy, or delete them together, and Group them (PRO) to keep them as one • Customize arrowheads, line styles, width, size, color, font, dash pattern, fill, and opacity • Add plain text, comic speech bubbles, pointer text, zigzag bubbles, and thought bubbles • Use hundreds of icons, insert images, and import your own fonts • Zoom and pan with precision and use a finger-following loupe • Work in portrait or landscape with automatic rotation and dark mode • Make collages or stitch multiple photos into a panorama • Add Markdown notes to every project and reopen it anytime • Generate high-resolution images, PDFs with custom templates, or editable project files MADE FOR SCREENSHOTS TOO A screenshot explains a bug, a setting, or a step far better than a paragraph does. Drop an arrow on the button, circle the error, blur the account details, and send it. Annotium keeps the screenshot markup sharp at full resolution, so nothing you point at gets lost when the image is opened on another screen. FROM QUICK MARKUP TO A FINISHED REPORT Start with one arrow. Add measurements, callouts, and notes as the job grows. When the photo set is complete, export every annotated image into a single PDF with your own template, or share the editable project file so a colleague can pick up where you stopped. BUILT FOR REAL WORK Annotium helps contractors, inspectors, technicians, teachers, students, designers, support teams, and anyone who needs to explain something visually. PRO SUBSCRIPTION You can start free with Annotium. An annual PRO subscription unlocks advanced tools and workflows and renews automatically until you cancel. PRO adds advanced shapes and callouts, technical lines, pixel effects, Lasso Select, shape grouping, voice typing with your device's available speech-recognition service, image insertion, the font catalog, notes, collage and stitching, project re-editing, plus PDF and project file export. Take the photo. Mark the detail. Communicate clearly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://annotium.github.io/legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Annotable at 4.6 against Annotium's 4.0. Annotable also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 44%) and ratings volume (894 vs 4). Annotium's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). 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 Annotium sells 10 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 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Annotable has 894 ratings behind it against 4, 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 44% of Annotium's.
Annotable ships an update every 2 months, Annotium daily. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | Annotable | Annotium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (894 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.3% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 894 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — 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 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 凌 王 | Hoang Le |
Customer experience
Annotable
Annotium
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
Annotium
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Annotium
- Spotlight$0.99
- Angle Measure$0.99
- Line Measure$0.99
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- Loupe$0.99
- Save Options$0.99
- Polygon$0.99
- Pixelate$0.99
- Connector$0.99
- Callout$1.99
- PREMIUM$9.99








