Comparison

A+ Signature Lite 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

A+ Signature Lite

Enhance and personalize your photos with text, drawings, and watermarks. Add signatures, create custom cards, and express yourself with internet memes. Easily share your creations with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Add multiple texts
  • Add drawings and handwriting
  • Apply watermarks
  • Create photocards
  • Add custom signatures
  • Use internet memes
  • Reuse saved texts and drawings
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A+ Signature Lite 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 10 included fonts for many 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 • 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 Lite 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 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

A+ Signature Lite4 screens
Marksta Lite1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: A+ Signature Lite at 4.8 against Marksta Lite's 3.0. A+ Signature Lite also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 64%) and ratings volume (712 vs 2). Marksta Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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

Both are free to download. A+ Signature Lite sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Marksta Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

A+ Signature Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A+ Signature Lite has 712 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of A+ Signature Lite's written reviews are positive against 64% of Marksta Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

A+ Signature Lite ships an update every 4 months, Marksta Lite monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
A+ Signature Lite versus Marksta Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterA+ Signature LiteMarksta Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (712 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews91.2% of reviews — better63.6% of reviews
Number of ratings712 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.27.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB19 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperPixtolab Technologies Inc.The Ticket Keeper Ltd

Customer experience

A+ Signature Lite

All ratings712 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews488 reviews
Positive91.2%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.5%

Marksta Lite

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

Bugs and requests

A+ Signature Lite

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Some users report blurry exported images
  • Text placement can become askew

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to add multiple watermarks/signatures at once
  • Option to start with a blank background
  • More font and style choices

Marksta Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

A+ Signature Lite

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Premium Pack$0.99
None

Marksta Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is A+ Signature Lite free?
A+ Signature Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Marksta Lite free?
Marksta Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, A+ Signature Lite or Marksta Lite?
A+ Signature Lite is rated higher. A+ Signature Lite averages 4.8 out of 5 from 712 ratings, while Marksta Lite averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do A+ Signature Lite or Marksta Lite have ads?
A+ Signature Lite shows ads; Marksta Lite does not.
Which is updated more often, A+ Signature Lite or Marksta Lite?
A+ Signature Lite ships an update every 4 months, and Marksta Lite monthly. Most recently, A+ Signature Lite was updated on October 29, 2026 and Marksta Lite on October 14, 2026.

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