Comparison

DrawPlus vs Annotium

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

Head to head
About

DrawPlus

Enhance your images with a comprehensive suite of annotation tools, including lines, text, and effects. Quickly create collages, stitch long screenshots, and read QR codes. Share your visual ideas for fun, home, school, or work.

Highlights
  • Extensive annotation tools (lines, text, effects)
  • Fast tool switching with swipe gestures
  • QR Code and Barcode Reader
  • Photo collage creation
  • Long screenshot stitching
  • Action Extension and iCloud sync support
Features
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A super-helpful image annotation tool for Free! DrawPlus is better than the one in the system. The interface is simple and beautiful. The annotation tool is easy to use. Features: POWERFUL TOOLS: Annotate now including line, dash line, curve line, arrow, twins arrow, curve arrow, rect, text, magnifier, spotlight, clip, blur effect and mosaic tools. DO FASTER & DO EASIER It’s like using shortcut in Photoshop, switch tools ever fast on a touch screen, just one swipe, the tools will automatic expand, keep swiping to switch, then release your finger to select. QR Code Reader and Scanner: The easiest and fastest QR Code and Barcode Reader COLLAGE: Many collage format bright up your photos. LONG SCREENSHOT: Automatically combine your screenshots into one full content image. SMALL WIDGETS, DOING A GREAT JOB Preview, Delete your photos right on widgets page, and the network activity monitor shows your device network status, upload/download speeds, received/sent data, storage in real time. ACTION EXTENSION: Fully support Action Extension, Photo Editing Extension, Edits Sync via iCloud Photo Library, URL Schemes. People everywhere use DrawPlus to help them visually share their thoughts with others. Here are a few ways you can use it, too: FOR FUN Mark up photos of silly, cool, or inspiring things you see and share them via social, email, SMS, and more. FOR HOME Annotate photos of your backyard to plan out your vegetable garden. FOR SCHOOL Share a diagram of the earth’s layers and have students label it with you FOR EVENTS Capture a map, mark it up, and share it with your friends to show them where you'll be. FOR WORK Open a PDF and highlight changes to skip the lengthy, confusing email chains and give clear feedback.

About

Annotium

Easily add annotations, measurements, and explanations to photos and screenshots. Highlight details, censor sensitive information, and organize your markups into editable projects. Export your visual explanations as images or PDFs for clear communication.

Highlights
  • Add arrows, shapes, and text
  • Measure dimensions and angles
  • Censor sensitive information
  • Organize annotations into projects
  • Export as image or PDF
  • Create collages and panoramas
Features
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Turn any photo into a clear visual explanation with Annotium. Mark up a photo or a screenshot in seconds. Annotate images for site inspections, repairs, lessons, product feedback, instructions, or everyday communication. Point out what matters, add context, and share an image that's easy to understand. ANNOTATE WITH PRECISION • Add arrows, lines, shapes, and text • Highlight details with Spotlight and Loupe • Show dimensions and angles with measurement tools • Draw directly when a quick sketch works best • Snap to 0°, 45°, 90°, or 180° so every line stays straight • Align shapes on an adjustable grid, or start from a blank A4 page PROTECT AND PRESENT • Blur or pixelate private information • Censor a face, a name, a plate, or an address before you send the photo • Use Mosaic for free, and unlock Crystallize, Mezzotint, Pointillize, and Color Halftone with PRO • Erase or crop a freeform area with Lasso Select (PRO) • Crop and combine images to add more context • Organize annotations into editable projects • Export and share the result as an image or PDF TOOLS FOR EVERY DETAIL • Create lines, curves, arrows, rectangles, ovals, rounded rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, polygons, arcs, coordinate shapes, rings, and freehand drawings • Use unlimited vertices in polygons, lines, and curves • Select Multiple shapes to move, copy, or delete them together, and Group them (PRO) to keep them as one • Customize arrowheads, line styles, width, size, color, font, dash pattern, fill, and opacity • Add plain text, comic speech bubbles, pointer text, zigzag bubbles, and thought bubbles • Use hundreds of icons, insert images, and import your own fonts • Zoom and pan with precision and use a finger-following loupe • Work in portrait or landscape with automatic rotation and dark mode • Make collages or stitch multiple photos into a panorama • Add Markdown notes to every project and reopen it anytime • Generate high-resolution images, PDFs with custom templates, or editable project files MADE FOR SCREENSHOTS TOO A screenshot explains a bug, a setting, or a step far better than a paragraph does. Drop an arrow on the button, circle the error, blur the account details, and send it. Annotium keeps the screenshot markup sharp at full resolution, so nothing you point at gets lost when the image is opened on another screen. FROM QUICK MARKUP TO A FINISHED REPORT Start with one arrow. Add measurements, callouts, and notes as the job grows. When the photo set is complete, export every annotated image into a single PDF with your own template, or share the editable project file so a colleague can pick up where you stopped. BUILT FOR REAL WORK Annotium helps contractors, inspectors, technicians, teachers, students, designers, support teams, and anyone who needs to explain something visually. PRO SUBSCRIPTION You can start free with Annotium. An annual PRO subscription unlocks advanced tools and workflows and renews automatically until you cancel. PRO adds advanced shapes and callouts, technical lines, pixel effects, Lasso Select, shape grouping, voice typing with your device's available speech-recognition service, image insertion, the font catalog, notes, collage and stitching, project re-editing, plus PDF and project file export. Take the photo. Mark the detail. Communicate clearly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://annotium.github.io/legal/privacy

Screenshots

DrawPlus4 screens
Annotium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Annotium at daily against DrawPlus's every 3 weeks. DrawPlus's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 44%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DrawPlus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Annotium sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Annotium holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of DrawPlus's written reviews are positive against 44% of Annotium's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrawPlus ships an update every 3 weeks, Annotium daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DrawPlus versus Annotium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawPlusAnnotium
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (6 ratings)4.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.3% of reviews — better44.4% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNan ChaoHoang Le

Customer experience

DrawPlus

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral21.4%
Negative14.3%

Annotium

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral22.2%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

DrawPlus

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Pro Version$0.99
4 purchases

Annotium

Subscriptions2
  • PRO$8.991 Year
  • PRO-A$12.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • PREMIUM$99.99

Questions

Is DrawPlus free?
DrawPlus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Annotium free?
Annotium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DrawPlus or Annotium?
Annotium is rated higher. DrawPlus averages 3.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Annotium averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do DrawPlus or Annotium have ads?
Neither DrawPlus nor Annotium shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrawPlus or Annotium?
DrawPlus ships an update every 3 weeks, and Annotium daily. Most recently, DrawPlus was updated on November 4, 2026 and Annotium on November 3, 2026.

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