Comparison

Annot8 vs Photo Markup

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

Head to head
About

Annot8

Easily add customizable text, shapes, and drawings to your photos. Highlight important areas, blur backgrounds, and edit images with tools like cropping and rotation. Share your annotated creations instantly across multiple platforms.

Highlights
  • Customizable text and shapes
  • Highlighting and spotlight tools
  • Freehand drawing and handwriting
  • Image import via camera or gallery
  • Cropping and rotation
  • Direct sharing to social media
Features
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Annot8 is the perfect app for those who want to annotate pictures on-the-go. It is an easy-to-use app to add catchy and customizable annotations to your pictures. Just select your picture, your annotation style and you are good to go. An app that is a must-have for students, teachers and business people alike; it has brilliant features that can be used by everyone, anywhere. Key features: • Extremely user friendly for all annotation and mark-up needs • Simple graphic user interface that has all the options just a tap away • Various forms of annotations such as highlighting, magnification, shapes, text, etc. • Draw on photos or add handwritten annotations • Add images right from the app using your camera or add them from your image gallery • Share annotated images right from the app on multiple platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and more, with one touch • Extensive photo editing options such cropping, rotating, magnifying etc. Adding annotations is easy - just select a picture from your gallery or take a picture right from the app using your camera and touch add. Next select the type of annotation you want – shapes (such as arrows), spotlight for emphasis, free text, and more, and just drag it where you want to add the annotation. The shapes and text are customizable and you can change the thickness as well as color of both. Using the spotlight and blur features you can focus on a particular area of your picture while blurring out everything else. You can also edit the photos on-the-go and only focus on the parts of the picture you want. Crop, rotate, and straighten your pics right in the app. Share your designs with a touch and post it on various social networks with ease. Easy-to-use and extremely versatile, Annot8 is awesome. The app is suitable for all age groups and is best suited for students, teachers, business professionals, field technicians, and even meme makers. For all the features that it has, the app is quite lightweight and works well with iPad as well as iPhone. If you have enjoyed any feature of the Annot8 app, don’t forget to rate it in the App Store and share Annot8 with your friends.

About

Photo Markup

Enhance images and screenshots by adding text, drawings, highlights, and over 300 emojis. Express your messages more clearly with handwritten notes and annotations. Easily explain details or point out important elements in any picture.

Highlights
  • Add text and handwritten notes
  • Draw lines, rectangles, and circles
  • Highlight and underline areas
  • Insert over 300 smileys and emojis
  • Undo and redo drawing actions
  • Customize drawing color and thickness
Features
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Add notes, highlight, draw lines, circle an object, add smileys, emojis and many more. The application supports more than 300 smileys and emojis to enhance the images. Smileys and emojis also help to show expression making the photos better and more expressive. You could also directly draw on the images. You could write using your fingers or Apple Pencil to show your messages in more expressive way. Handwritten messages or text adds more meaning to the images. You could take a screenshot on the phone and edit it in the application. In the application, you could write text on screenshots, add emojis and smileys, draw using your fingers, highlight using rectangle or circle and underline text as well. Using the image markup, you could easily explain things on the screenshots or the images to the other people. Using the image markup, you could easily point to important things in an image. For example, you could highlight yourself in a group of people. The application also comes with various other tools. For example : Using eraser, the drawn content could be deleted. The application has the undo and redo options. The application also comes with options to change the drawing color and thickness of the borders of the drawn objects. Using the application you could draw randomly on the screen, draw a line, rectangle or circle, write text on the screen and highlight an area . When you write the text, you could change the Font, Size and colour as well.

Screenshots

Annot84 screens
Photo Markup4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Annot8 at Free against Photo Markup's $2.99. Annot8 also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 57%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 28 months). Photo Markup's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ratings volume, ads and device support 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

Annot8 is free to download; Photo Markup costs $2.99 up front. Annot8 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Photo Markup asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.5 for Annot8 against 3.5 for Photo Markup. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Annot8's written reviews are positive against 57% of Photo Markup's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Annot8 ships an update every 2 weeks, Photo Markup every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Annot8 versus Photo Markup: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnnot8Photo Markup
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.5 (11 ratings) — better3.5 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews90.8% of reviews — better57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 28 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdelphaTech Inc.Nikhil Anshuman

Customer experience

Annot8

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive90.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative5.3%

Photo Markup

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

Bugs and requests

Annot8

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Recent update changed functionality drastically
  • Unable to delete original photo
  • Markup follows finger when swiping near existing markup
  • App is two years old and needs updating

Requested features

17 requests
  • Add brush stroke function to photo library version
  • Add ability to choose app in screenshot action
  • Add more emoji stickers
  • Redesign iPad version
  • Add in-app purchase for ad-free experience
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  • Ability to set blur strength
  • Ability to choose text size and font
  • Add double arrow tool
  • Add scalable loupe/magnifier
  • Improve printing options (e.g., change orientation)
  • Allow editing of text after placement
  • Add undo functionality
  • Add copy/duplicate functionality
  • Add photo editing features
  • Add ability to put border around text or artwork
  • Add font selection
  • Add ability to remove ads via purchase

Photo Markup

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Annot8

One-time1
  • Annot8 - Photo Annotation & Markup Tool$1.99
None

Photo Markup

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Annot8 free?
Annot8 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo Markup free?
Photo Markup costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Annot8 or Photo Markup?
Annot8 is rated higher. Annot8 averages 3.5 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Photo Markup averages 3.5 from 6 ratings.
Do Annot8 or Photo Markup have ads?
Neither Annot8 nor Photo Markup shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Annot8 or Photo Markup?
Annot8 ships an update every 2 weeks, and Photo Markup every 28 months. Most recently, Annot8 was updated on October 24, 2026 and Photo Markup on October 25, 2026.

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