Comparison

Obscure vs PhotoMark

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

Head to head
About

Obscure

Easily redact sensitive information from your photos before sharing. This app uses AI to automatically detect and obscure faces, text, and personal details, or allows for manual editing. Protect your privacy by blurring or blocking out private portions of images for safe social media sharing.

Highlights
  • Automatic face, text, and info detection
  • Manual redaction editor
  • One-touch email and phone number hiding
  • Batch editing for multiple images
  • Shortcuts integration for automation
  • Blur, pixelate, or block sensitive areas
Features
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Safely and securely share your photos! Obscure lets you quickly blur, pixellate or block out private portions of your images so that they are safe to share on any social platform. - Automatically detect & obscure faces, text, & personal info with advanced on-device AI - Redact all text from an image - Manually obfuscate any part of a picture with the easy to use editor - Find & hide email addresses and phone numbers with one touch - Edit multiple images in batches using the batch editor - Shortcuts action allows for easy redaction automation Just import an image, tap and drag over sensitive parts of the image then tap share. Use two fingers to pan and zoom to redact fine details. Works great for sharing screenshots! Obfuscate faces, license plates, and brand labels. Easily redact private parts of document images that you want to share. Redacted images can then be shared to any other app on your phone, or just save them back to your photo library. Obscure also works with Shortcuts, allowing you to easily setup an automated image processing pipeline. Long press the app icon to get quick shortcuts to your last taken image, the camera, or to paste an image you copied. Obscure is a one time purchase, no ads and no subscriptions! Privacy Policy: https://obscure.app/privacy Terms: https://obscure.app/terms

About

PhotoMark

Easily add professional camera brand watermarks to your photos. Utilize a powerful recipe system to create and apply custom styles, including frames, filters, and logos. Supports batch processing and extensive camera data matching.

Highlights
  • EXIF brand logo watermarking
  • Recipe System for custom styles
  • Massive camera and lens data matching
  • Shooting parameter simulation
  • Free style configuration
  • Customizable icons and logos
  • Batch image processing
Features
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PhotoMark is a photo-frame and EXIF watermark app built for photographers. Import a photo to read camera, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, and capture time, then match its camera-brand logo automatically. Flexible controls provide over one million possible frame combinations. Six creative modes - Classic Frame: Arrange EXIF data, brand logos, and custom text in a professional frame. - Blur Frame: Build a soft backdrop from the photo itself and keep the subject in focus. - Art Frame: Adjust aspect ratio, margins, and background colors freely. - Inline Frame: Choose from nine positions and combine icons, custom text, and EXIF data. - Cinema Frame: Arrange 2–5 photos horizontally or vertically, then adjust order, crop, spacing, outer margins, and background color. - Instant Frame: Recreate 28 Bowie, Basquiat, and MoMA artist papers with classic, round-window, and wide formats, film effects with adjustable strength, and direct drag-and-pinch framing. Built for photography workflows - Match camera-brand logos automatically, with 20+ built-in brand groups plus custom icons and matching rules. - Choose from multiple information layouts and configure camera, lens, and shooting data. - Import up to 18 photos for individual editing, or apply the current settings to all. - Pro Lightning mode exports up to 36 photos in a batch. - Save reusable setups to My Frames and sync them across devices with iCloud. - Export in 1080p, 2K, 4K, 5K, or 8K. - Optionally preserve the original photo metadata. Whether you want to document shooting settings, keep a consistent visual style, create camera watermarks, or arrange a travel and everyday photo series, PhotoMark turns repeated adjustments into a reusable workflow. Some exports and advanced batch features require PhotoMark Pro. Need help? Contact us through App Support on the App Store. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Obscure4 screens
PhotoMark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PhotoMark at Free against Obscure's $2.99. PhotoMark also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Obscure's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

PhotoMark is free to download; Obscure costs $2.99 up front. PhotoMark sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Obscure asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Obscure holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Obscure's written reviews are positive against 83% of PhotoMark's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obscure ships an update every 2 months, PhotoMark fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Obscure versus PhotoMark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObscurePhotoMark
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (30 ratings) — better4.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings30 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwift Fox Software LLC慧鑫 贾

Customer experience

Obscure

All ratings30 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

PhotoMark

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%

In-app purchases

None

Obscure

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

PhotoMark

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Annual$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$17.99

Questions

Is Obscure free?
Obscure costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PhotoMark free?
PhotoMark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Obscure or PhotoMark?
Obscure is rated higher. Obscure averages 4.8 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while PhotoMark averages 4.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Obscure or PhotoMark have ads?
Neither Obscure nor PhotoMark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obscure or PhotoMark?
Obscure ships an update every 2 months, and PhotoMark fortnightly. Most recently, Obscure was updated on August 31, 2026 and PhotoMark on September 19, 2026.

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