Permanent Marker Stickers vs Communication Issue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Permanent Marker Stickers
Enhance your iMessage conversations with a variety of permanent marker stickers. Express yourself by marking up, blacking out, or censoring messages and pictures. Customize placement, rotation, and size for a unique touch.
- Markup messages and pictures
- Blackout and censor content
- Redact sensitive information
- Express yourself with emojis and sayings
- Peel and place stickers
- Rotate and resize stickers
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Markup, blackout, censor, redact, express yourself, and leave a lasting impression with Permanent Marker Stickers for iMessage! Includes over 70 different stickers that you can peel and place on anything in your iMessage conversations. To place a sticker over a message or picture, long press on a sticker, and then drag and drop it where you want it. You can also rotate and resize stickers before dropping them by pulling apart with two fingers. If you enjoy using Permanent Marker Stickers, please take a moment to leave a review in the iMessage App Store. Thank you for the support!
Communication Issue
Enhance your conversations with 125 unique, hand-drawn stickers. This free app aims to significantly improve your messaging skills and has been viewed nearly 125,000 times globally. It offers a straightforward way to add personality to your chats without any in-app purchases.
- 125 hand-drawn stickers
- Enhances messaging skills
- Globally viewed
- Free to use
- No in-app purchases
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125 hand drawn stickers. Guaranteed to increase your messaging skills up to 125%. Viewed almost 125k times around the world. Try it out. It's free with no in-app purchases or anything.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Communication Issue at 5.0 against Permanent Marker Stickers's 4.0. Communication Issue also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.1). Permanent Marker Stickers's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (77 vs 3). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Communication Issue holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Permanent Marker Stickers has 77 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Permanent Marker Stickers's written reviews are positive against 100% of Communication Issue's.
Permanent Marker Stickers ships an update every 2 months, Communication Issue every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Permanent Marker Stickers | Communication Issue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (77 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Storm | Hunter Unger |
Customer experience
Permanent Marker Stickers
Communication Issue
Bugs and requests
Permanent Marker Stickers
Reported bugs
19 issues- Error code 529
- App won't work
- Doesn't show up in stickers
- Erased (app was removed by developer)
- Could not log on for 5 days
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- Icons aren't with the keyboard, it's separate
- App won't open/Pulls up a blank screen
- Unable to access the app directly to remove it
- Sticker section was completely blank
- White stickers don't show up for users on Light theme
- No black marker text
- Can't delete this app
- How to Open It? (takes user to keyboard)
- Can't open or delete
- Does not behave like other stickers
- Where do I open it?
- It's hiding!!! (not in library or settings)
- Can't uninstall and takes $ w/o notice
- The App doesn't work anymore
Requested features
9 requests- Fix app not working issues
- Make stickers appear correctly
- Allow app deletion
- Improve theme compatibility
- Add black marker text
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- Fix login issues
- Make marks small enough for small words
- Add more stickers
- Make stickers available for other apps like Signal
Communication Issue
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Permanent Marker Stickers
No in-app purchases
Communication Issue
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Permanent Marker Stickers free?
Is Communication Issue free?
Which has better reviews, Permanent Marker Stickers or Communication Issue?
Do Permanent Marker Stickers or Communication Issue have ads?
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