Annotable vs Choihen
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.
Choihen
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Choihen is a simple markup app you can use on photos and on videos. When you only want to touch something up a little, the screen shows you what to do at a glance. ■ Photo editing • Shape … seven of them: circle, square, triangle, pill, line, marker and arrow. • Spot … an effect like a spotlight on the photo. • Speed lines … radiating lines come out toward the shape. • Emoji … place any emoji you like as a stamp. • Text … typing text in is easy too! • Number … round badges that count up, 1, 2, 3 and on. • Mosaic … three shapes, square / circle / marker, so you can hide whatever you want. • Stamp … turn a photo you took into a stamp and use it in your photo edits. • Crop … choose an area and cut it out. • Open a photo straight in Choihen from the Share button in the Photos app. ■ Video The same six tools, and on top of them: • Auto-track faces … follows a face through the video, and the mosaic or the emoji goes along with it. • Track a selection … draw a loop with your finger around what you want to hide, and it follows the movement. • Record Emoji … play the video and move it with your finger, and the movement is kept exactly as you made it. • Trimming the video in time, and exporting to the Photos app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Annotable at none against Choihen's shown. Choihen's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 Choihen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Annotable ships an update every 2 months, Choihen fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Annotable | Choihen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (954 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 954 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 凌 王 | jin kimura |
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
Choihen
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
Choihen
- Hide Ads$5.99









