Comparison

A+ Signature vs Marksta

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

Head to head
About

A+ Signature

Enhance and protect your photos with this versatile annotation tool. Add text, drawings, watermarks, and even your signature to images. Create custom photocards and share them easily.

Highlights
  • Add multiple texts and drawings
  • Apply elegant watermarks
  • Create custom photocards
  • Add digital signatures
  • Use internet memes
  • Extensive font options
  • Adjust opacity and color
Features
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A+ Signature lets you add beautiful text, handwriting, drawings, watermarks, captions, and signatures to any photo. Use it to annotate images for work, protect your photos with elegant watermarks, create photocard-style designs, add autographs, or make fun captioned images. A+ Signature combines flexible text tools with smooth freehand drawing so it is easy to personalize and share your pictures. What’s inside: • Add multiple text annotations to a photo • Draw smooth handwriting, sketches, and signatures • Move, rotate, and resize annotations with ease • Adjust color, opacity, and shadow for text and drawings • Choose fonts from your device plus 115 included fonts for hundreds of style variations • Add text outlines for stronger contrast on photos • Save and reuse favorite text and drawing elements with the Catalog • Use customizable Stock Items for faster editing • Copy and paste text or drawing annotations • Export any annotation or signature as a PNG image • Share annotated photos by email, AirDrop, or with other compatible apps • Open photos from other compatible apps • Works great with your fingers or a stylus A+ Signature is ideal for photo annotation, watermarking, signatures, captions, photocards, and creative image sharing. Looking for more advanced creative editing tools and additional flexibility? Try our other iOS app, Mix on Pix.

About

Marksta

Easily add custom text or logos to your photos to protect your work. This app allows for detailed customization of watermarks, including fonts, colors, and positioning, and also supports editing IPTC and caption information. Protect your images before sharing them online.

Highlights
  • Add text and logo watermarks
  • Customize watermark appearance
  • Edit IPTC and caption data
  • Non-destructive editing
  • Direct sharing to social media
  • Save custom templates
Features
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Marksta allows you to watermark your photography, adding text or a logo directly from your iPhone or iPad. Add a copyright notice to your images before sharing them to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Flickr, etc. Or add your Twitter name, or your website address. Whatever you want to write, Marksta makes it simple and fast. And now you can add and edit IPTC and caption information too. *** As featured in The Economist, Wired, British Journal of Photography, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and selected by ABC News as App of the Week. *** Features • Add multiple lines of text to your photos, including ©, @, and # • Add an image or company logo to your photographs • Adjust size and position of text and/or logo using gesture control • Adjust font, colour, and opacity of text and/or logo • Add a customizable border • Reverse your text in a box to improve visibility • Add parallel lines or crossing lines to your text to increase protection • Justify text depending on placement • View all changes on screen in real time • Edit IPTC information, including copyright owner • Add/remove GPS geo-tags on the map screen • Save multiple templates to improve workflow and speed • Non-destructive editing; Marksta will save new versions of your edit but always preserves the original image • Share directly to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr or send to Instagram, Camera+ and more, or email directly from inside the app • Customizable output size presets • Information button on each page guides you through the many advanced features of Marksta Reasons to use Marksta • Add copyright information and IPTC to your photographs directly from your iPhone or iPad before sharing online • Protect your images from misuse and theft • Ensure acknowledgement of your creative work • Safeguard your photos from being designated “orphan works” This full-feature, professional standard app is completely ad-free. We have total respect for your privacy and intellectual property, and we will never store or sell any of your information or images - our only income is from the purchase price of the app.

Screenshots

A+ Signature4 screens
Marksta1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: A+ Signature at 4.9 against Marksta's 2.2. A+ Signature also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 53%) and ratings volume (737 vs 39). Marksta's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

A+ Signature costs $3.99 and Marksta $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

A+ Signature holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A+ Signature has 737 ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of A+ Signature's written reviews are positive against 53% of Marksta's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

A+ Signature ships an update every 3 months, Marksta every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
A+ Signature versus Marksta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterA+ SignatureMarksta
Price$3.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.9 (737 ratings) — better2.2 (39 ratings)
Positive reviews95.1% of reviews — better53.4% of reviews
Number of ratings737 — better39
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.28.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPixtolab Technologies Inc.The Ticket Keeper Ltd

Customer experience

A+ Signature

All ratings737 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral0.9%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews609 reviews
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative2.1%

Marksta

All ratings38 ratings
Positive26.3%
Neutral5.3%
Negative68.4%
Written reviews148 reviews
Positive53.4%
Neutral6.1%
Negative40.5%

User reviews

A+ Signature

From 737 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient and reliable
  • 💡 Versatile with many features
  • 🎨 Great font and color options
  • 🔒 Secure watermarking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
  • 🔍 Limited ability to edit saved signatures
  • 🚫 Unable to upload logos or images

Marksta

From 39 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use interface
  • 🎨 Extensive font and color customization options
  • 🔒 Ability to embed copyright and metadata information
  • 💾 Save and reuse watermark templates
  • 📱 Works well for social media sharing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing
  • ⚠️ Poor compatibility with newer iOS versions
  • 🔴 Lack of developer support and updates
  • ❌ Cannot save to camera roll reliably
  • 📉 Reduces image quality/resolution

Bugs and requests

A+ Signature

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Unable to save photos to album on newer devices
  • App not updated in over 3 years

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to add multiple photos/layers
  • Sync signatures across devices
  • More advanced editing tools

Marksta

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App crashes on iOS 8 and newer versions
  • Crashes when importing photos from albums
  • Tap to edit text field unresponsive
  • Cannot close editing tabs without workaround
  • Save to camera roll function fails
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  • Photos flip or rotate incorrectly when saved
  • Crashes with large file sizes
  • Incompatible with iPhone XS and XS Max
  • Default 'Tap here' text cannot be deleted
  • App freezes during photo capture within app
  • EXIF and IPTC metadata stripped from images
  • Crashes on iPad 1 and older devices
  • UI becomes unresponsive after multiple edits

Requested features

11 requests
  • Batch processing for multiple photos
  • Ability to edit saved watermarks after creation
  • Support for full resolution image saving
  • Angled/rotated watermark placement
  • Watermark border/edge options for visibility
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  • iPad version with persistent templates
  • Better undo/delete functionality
  • Ability to add clickable URLs to watermarks
  • Multiple text layers in single session
  • Custom output size options
  • Better help documentation and tutorials

In-app purchases

None

A+ Signature

No in-app purchases

None

Marksta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is A+ Signature free?
A+ Signature costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Marksta free?
Marksta costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, A+ Signature or Marksta?
A+ Signature is rated higher. A+ Signature averages 4.9 out of 5 from 737 ratings, while Marksta averages 2.2 from 39 ratings.
Do A+ Signature or Marksta have ads?
Neither A+ Signature nor Marksta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, A+ Signature or Marksta?
A+ Signature ships an update every 3 months, and Marksta every 5 weeks. Most recently, A+ Signature was updated on October 26, 2026 and Marksta on October 26, 2026.

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