Annot8 vs Video Annotation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Video Annotation
Draw directly on videos with Apple Pencil or your finger, creating annotations that appear at specific moments. Organize and export your marked-up videos with timeline-based editing and flexible sharing options.
- Draw with Apple Pencil or finger
- Timeline-based annotation timing
- Multiple annotation tracks
- Flexible video export options
- Universal app for iPhone, iPad, Mac
- Privacy-focused, content stays on device
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VideoAnnotation lets you draw directly on videos with Apple Pencil or your finger. Create annotations that appear at specific moments and export your marked-up videos to share. DRAW WITH PENCILKIT/PAPERKIT • Use familiar Apple drawing tools - pens, pencils, markers, and highlighters • Draw with Apple Pencil on iPad for precise annotations • Choose colors and line widths that stand out on your footage • Annotations sync automatically across your devices TIMELINE-BASED EDITING • Create annotation tracks like professional video editors • Set exactly when each annotation appears and disappears • Drag and resize clips on the timeline • Multiple tracks for organizing complex annotations FLEXIBLE EXPORT • Export annotated videos to your Photos library • Share directly to social media, email, or AirDrop • Preserve original video quality • Works with videos from any source UNIVERSAL APP • Native experience on iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Optimized for each screen size • Full Apple Pencil support on iPad • Keyboard shortcuts on Mac PERFECT FOR • Sports coaches analyzing game footage • Teachers creating instructional videos • Content creators adding visual highlights • Professionals reviewing presentations • Anyone marking up video content PRIVACY FOCUSED Your videos stay on your device. We don't collect, upload, or share your content. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Annot8 at 91% against Video Annotation's 0%. Annot8 also leads on rating (3.5 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks 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. Annot8 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Video Annotation sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Annot8 holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Annot8 has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Annot8's written reviews are positive against 0% of Video Annotation's.
Annot8 ships an update every 2 weeks, Video Annotation every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Annot8 | Video Annotation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (11 ratings) — better | 2.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AdelphaTech Inc. | Binh An Tran |
Customer experience
Annot8
Video Annotation
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
Video Annotation
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Annot8
- Annot8 - Photo Annotation & Markup Tool$1.99
Video Annotation
- Weekly Pro$1.997 Days
- Monthly Pro$3.991 Month
- Yearly Pro$17.991 Year









