WaterMark vs Marksta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WaterMark
Easily protect your photos and digital creations by adding custom text or logo watermarks. Adjust opacity, position, and rotation to safeguard your work before sharing or publishing.
- Add text or logo watermarks
- Adjust watermark opacity
- Resize and rotate watermarks
- Choose from 100+ fonts
- Define text color
- Save and share at full resolution
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Protect your photos and digital works with your own watermark in no time before sending them or publishing them! Protect your photos in 4 simple steps: - Select the photo/image you want to protect in your photo library - Select your logo image, or define a text as watermark and adjust its style. Switch between your text and logo by touching the bottom left button - Adjust your watermark on your photos; pinch it, drag it and rotate it. Adjust its opacity precisely with the bottom slider. - Save your photo in your library, send it by email,export it to other apps Special features: - White and black spirals watermark included - Choose the text font among more than 100 different fonts - Define the text color with the sliders - Save and share your watermarked photo at full resolution If you have an issue, question or suggestion, drop us an email at support@seb-appstore.com Check out other great iPhone apps at www.SEB-AppStore.com
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.
- Add text and logo watermarks
- Customize watermark appearance
- Edit IPTC and caption data
- Non-destructive editing
- Direct sharing to social media
- Save custom templates
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Marksta at every 5 weeks against WaterMark's every 5 months. Marksta also leads on review sentiment (53% vs 42%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). WaterMark's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ads, in-app purchases 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
WaterMark costs $0.99 and Marksta $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WaterMark ships an update every 5 months, Marksta every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WaterMark | Marksta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | — | 2.3 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.4% of reviews | 53.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 38 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastien BUET | The Ticket Keeper Ltd |
Customer experience
WaterMark
Marksta
User reviews
WaterMark
From App Store reviewsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Controls watermark intensity
- 👍 Saves previous templates
- 👍 Good for copyrighting photos
- 👍 Simple and quick
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Does not work on newer iOS
- 🐛 Blurry when saving
- 🐛 Limited design options
- 🐛 Not user-friendly
Marksta
From 38 App Store ratingsWhat 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
WaterMark
Reported bugs
30 issues- Crashes on any operation
- Crashes when trying to upload image
- Crashes when trying to import photo
- Crashes when trying to load new one
- Photos would not save to library
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- Photos would not post to Instagram
- App crashes as soon as I try to import a photo
- App crashes when trying to load a new one
- App crashes when trying to upload the image from my phone
- App crashes when trying to import a photo
- App crashes when trying to load a new one
- App crashes when trying to save
- App crashes when trying to apply own personal watermark
- App crashes when trying to modify text
- App crashes when trying to save modified text
- App crashes when trying to open
- App crashes when trying to make a change
- App crashes when trying to upload photograph
- App crashes upon opening
- App crashes when launched
- App crashes when Zapfino is used
- App crashes within minutes and won't re-open
- App freezes
- App doesn't open
- App doesn't work
- App is non-working
- App is non-accessible
- App crashes the moment it opens
- App won't open
- App is unresponsive
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to have own watermark
- Save more than one text watermark
- Add watermark to videos
- Ability to change font size
- Ability to move text around photo
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- Add landscape view
- Better coloring options
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
WaterMark
No in-app purchases
Marksta
No in-app purchases









