Annot8 vs Arrow in Picture
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.
Arrow in Picture
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Arrow in Picture is an offline inspection camera designed for clear, practical field documentation. Choose a visual marker, frame the issue, add an optional typed or dictated caption, and take the picture. Arrow in Picture permanently renders the marker and caption into the finished JPEG, so the meaning stays visible when the image is copied, emailed, or added to an inspection report. Features: - Arrow, dot, circle, oval, square, and privacy mosaic markers - Marker on/off control without changing the selected inspection mode - Optional typed or dictated captions embedded in the finished photo - Camera zoom, flash, front/rear camera, and mode lock - Multiple inspection-friendly aspect ratios - Saves completed images to the Arrow album in Apple Photos - No account, advertising, analytics, subscription, or developer cloud service Arrow in Picture processes images on the iPhone. Your inspection photographs remain under your control in Apple Photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Arrow in Picture at none against Annot8's 1. Annot8's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. Arrow in Picture asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Annot8 | Arrow in Picture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AdelphaTech Inc. | Wenwei Yao |
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
Arrow in Picture
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Annot8
- Annot8 - Photo Annotation & Markup Tool$1.99
Arrow in Picture
No in-app purchases








