Comparison

Annotate for iMessage vs Reactions

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

Head to head
About

Annotate for iMessage

Enhance your photos and messages with a collection of shapes, arrows, and scribbles. Easily draw attention to specific details, mark locations, or highlight faces. These interactive stickers can be resized, rotated, and placed directly into conversations.

Highlights
  • Shapes and arrows for emphasis
  • Scribble tool
  • Resize and rotate stickers
  • Direct iMessage integration
  • Annotate photos and screenshots
Features
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Annotate is a super useful pack of shapes, arrows, and more to help draw attention to specific parts of a picture. These stickers make it easy to pinpoint a good meeting point on a landscape shot or circle your face in a crowded photo. You can even use it to scribble out your friend’s messages if you’re feeling cruel! It’s easy to use: press and hold to grab a sticker, pinch to resize or rotate, and place it straight into the conversation! You can use these stickers to annotate photos, screenshots or even message bubbles. Get creative!

About

Reactions

Enhance your iMessage conversations with a diverse collection of animated stickers. Express emotions and ideas in a humorous and intense style by layering these stickers over messages, images, or even other stickers. You can also resize them using pinch gestures.

Highlights
  • Animated sticker pack
  • Express emotions and ideas
  • Add intensity to conversations
  • iMessage Effects
  • Peel and stick functionality
  • Resize stickers
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This sticker app pack is going to help sharing your emotions and ideas in a funny style with your iMessage contacts. Give it a twist, with a grain of intensity to your conversations adding iMessage Effects. There is a wide variety of Reactions Stickers you can choose from this app. Peel and stick them over other conversation bubbles, images, photos, even on other stickers. You can resize them, using pinch gesture when you peel them.

Screenshots

Annotate for iMessage3 screens
Reactions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Annotate for iMessage at 100% against Reactions's 17%. Annotate for iMessage also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Reactions's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 4). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Reactions sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Annotate for iMessage asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Annotate for iMessage holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Annotate for iMessage's written reviews are positive against 17% of Reactions's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Annotate for iMessage versus Reactions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnnotate for iMessageReactions
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better1.9 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings416 — better
Update frequency—Every 43 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIntelligenti LtdArturo Estrada De Leon

Customer experience

Annotate for iMessage

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Reactions

All ratings17 ratings
Positive17.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative82.4%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative83.3%

In-app purchases

None

Annotate for iMessage

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Reactions

One-time1
  • Unlock All Stickers$0.99

Questions

Is Annotate for iMessage free?
Annotate for iMessage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reactions free?
Reactions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Annotate for iMessage or Reactions?
Annotate for iMessage is rated higher. Annotate for iMessage averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Reactions averages 1.9 from 16 ratings.
Do Annotate for iMessage or Reactions have ads?
Neither Annotate for iMessage nor Reactions shows ads.

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