Annotable vs Jolly Lights Professional
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.
Jolly Lights Professional
Create professional holiday lighting mock-ups with advanced features for installers. Design custom scenes with various lighting effects, greenery, and decorative overlays. Organize projects with a folder system and share catalogs between devices.
- Customizable bulb colors
- Greenery backdrops for garlands
- Overlay mode for decorative elements
- Catalog Editor for custom products
- Folder-based file system
- Lighting package upsell options
- Pro frames with alpha slider
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Increase your productivity and boost the quality of your lighting mock-ups with Jolly Lights Professional! Designed specifically for professional holiday light installers, this enhanced version of our basic Jolly Lights app includes highly requested features: • Warm white, cool white, and sun warm white bulb colors • Greenery backdrops on strands to create free-form garlands • Shrub nets, pillar wraps, and lit strand loops • Overlay mode to add Pro wreaths, bows, teardrop greeneries, Moravian stars, starbursts, and lawn inflatables as well as your own custom images to a scene • Catalog Editor to curate your own catalog of Pro and custom overlays to better match your product offerings • Catalog import/export commands to share curated catalogs between devices running iPadOS 18 • Lighting package alternatives in each scene to upsell a client • Folder-based file system to better organize and locate scenes • Searchable, displayable text notes in each scene • Pro frames with edge darkening borders and alpha slider • Support for iPadOS 16, 17, and 18 An All-Access (monthly or yearly) paid subscription is required to use Jolly Lights Professional. A subscription provides unlimited access to all the app's features during the subscription period. If you decide to purchase a subscription, an initial payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Auto-renewal may be disabled at any time by managing your subscription. Jolly Lights and Wrinkle-free Games are trademarks of Wrinkle-free Games, LLC. For terms of use visit: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Annotable at free with in-app purchases against Jolly Lights Professional's subscription. Annotable also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (955 vs 19). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Annotable sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Jolly Lights Professional sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Annotable holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Annotable has 955 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 75% and 75% positive.
Annotable ships an update every 2 months, Jolly Lights Professional every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Annotable | Jolly Lights Professional |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (955 ratings) — better | 4.2 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.3% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 955 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 凌 王 | Wrinkle-free Games, LLC |
Customer experience
Annotable
Jolly Lights Professional
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
Jolly Lights Professional
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
Jolly Lights Professional
- All-Access$29.991 Month
- All-Access$149.991 Year
Questions
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