Comparison

WaterMark vs Marksta Lite

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Marksta Lite

Easily add text or a logo to your photos to protect them from misuse. Customize fonts, colors, and placement for a professional look before sharing online. This free version offers essential watermarking features for casual users.

Highlights
  • Add text or logo watermarks
  • Adjust size, position, font, color, opacity
  • Customizable borders and text effects
  • Real-time preview
  • Non-destructive editing
  • Direct sharing to social media
  • Customizable output sizes
Features
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Marksta Lite is a free version of the popular Marksta watermarking app. Marksta Lite 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 Lite makes it simple and fast. Features • Add a line 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 • 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, EyeEm, Camera+ and more, or email or FTP 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 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” ** Please note, Marksta Lite has been designed for the casual or infrequent user, and so some of the more advanced features are not available. If you find this free version useful, why not upgrade to the full version of Marksta and enjoy multiple layers, saving templates, reviewing and editing EXIF and IPTC captions, reviewing and editing your GPS location on a full screen map, sharing and saving templates over iCloud, as well as professional FTP capability.** This Lite version of Marksta 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 full feature Marksta app.

Screenshots

WaterMark4 screens
Marksta Lite1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Marksta Lite at Free against WaterMark's $0.99. Marksta Lite also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (64% vs 42%). 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

Marksta Lite is free to download; WaterMark costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WaterMark ships an update every 5 months, Marksta Lite monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
WaterMark versus Marksta Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaterMarkMarksta Lite
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.4% of reviews63.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB19 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperSebastien BUETThe Ticket Keeper Ltd

Customer experience

WaterMark

Written reviews92 reviews
Positive42.4%
Neutral4.3%
Negative53.3%

Marksta Lite

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%

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 Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

WaterMark

No in-app purchases

None

Marksta Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WaterMark free?
WaterMark costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Marksta Lite free?
Marksta Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WaterMark or Marksta Lite have ads?
Neither WaterMark nor Marksta Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WaterMark or Marksta Lite?
WaterMark ships an update every 5 months, and Marksta Lite monthly. Most recently, WaterMark was updated on November 6, 2026 and Marksta Lite on November 1, 2026.

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