Comparison

Annot8 vs BlurryBerry

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

BlurryBerry

Features
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Share the moment, not the face. BlurryBerry is the simple, beautiful way to blur faces and private details in your photos before you post them. Pick a photo, drag your finger over anything you want to hide, and save or share. That's it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every edit happens entirely on your iPhone. Your photos are never uploaded, never sent to a server, and never leave your device. There's no account, no signup, and no tracking. SIMPLE TO USE • Choose a photo from your library • Drag a finger across any face or detail to blur it • Adjust the brush size and blur strength to taste • Or cover a face with an emoji: pick from the full library, then drag to move, resize, and rotate • Undo or clear anytime • Save to Photos, or share straight to your favorite app MADE FOR FAMILIES BlurryBerry started with a simple parental wish: to share family memories online without exposing a child's face. It's built for parents who care about privacy, families, and anyone who shares group photos and wants to protect the people in them. THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED A calm, uncluttered interface keeps your photo front and center. No ads, no clutter, no complicated steps: just one clear job, done well. Blur it. Share it. Done.

Screenshots

Annot84 screens
BlurryBerry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Annot8 at 3 against BlurryBerry's 1. Annot8 also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Annot8 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BlurryBerry sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Annot8 versus BlurryBerry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnnot8BlurryBerry
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdelphaTech Inc.Diego Curumaco

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
Show 12 more
  • 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

BlurryBerry

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Annot8

One-time1
  • Annot8 - Photo Annotation & Markup Tool$1.99
1 purchases

BlurryBerry

One-time1
  • Unlock BlurryBerry$2.99

Questions

Is Annot8 free?
Annot8 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BlurryBerry free?
BlurryBerry is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Annot8 or BlurryBerry have ads?
Neither Annot8 nor BlurryBerry shows ads.

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