Best Annotate Apps

4.4😐(478 ratings)

Free

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Easily add text, emojis, stickers, and shapes to photos and screenshots. Redact sensitive information or add captions before sharing with friends on your favorite social media and messaging apps.

What We Love

👍 Easy to use
🚀 Simple and efficient
💡 Helpful for educators and professionals
✨ Great app experience

Room to Improve

🐛 Crashes and freezes
🔀 Forced cropping of images
📚 Limited annotation tools (no circles, squares, etc.)
🎨 Lack of color options

Annotable: Annotation & Markup by 凌王

Image Annotation & Markup

Strong Contender

4.6😊(894 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This app provides a comprehensive suite of tools for annotating and marking up images. It offers a wide range of customization options for common annotation elements and unique features like text highlighting on screenshots. The app supports various iOS system integrations for a seamless user experience.

What We Love

🚀 Game changer
🚀 Excellent—the built-in iOS markup features pale in comparison
👍 Easy to use
👍 Fantastic!
👍 Amazing App
👍 Nice lightweight image editor
👍 Fantastic!
👍 Easy simple to use
👍 Wonderful app - must have
👍 Great all-in-one app
👍 Use it all the time
👍 Top app
👍 Highly recommend this app!!
👍 Absolutely Amazing!!
👍 Really handy little app...
👍 The best image annotation tool on iOS
👍 high recommend
👍 Très bonne application!!
👍 Great annotation tool
👍 Best annotation app there is!
👍 Does what it says on the tin
👍 A must have
👍 Easy yet powerful
👍 Amazing !
👍 Best of breed App
👍 Simple and very functional
👍 A Really Good Apo
👍 Wow!
👍 Great little app
👍 Brilliant app
👍 Very useful app

Room to Improve

🐛 Blur broken ios26
🔒 Can't undo
💰 Paid app, free version is worthless
💰 Everything is locked behind a pay wall
💰 Extremely frustrating to use
💰 Too many features need $$
💰 Too expensive!!
💰 A little rich
💰 Pourquoi payer??
🐛 Can't cope with a pencil

Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDF by Goodnotes Limited

Note taking, Planner & Journal

Worth Considering

Drawboard PDF Annotate, Markup

4.7😊(453K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#88in Productivity

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Capture ideas, enhance productivity, and unlock insights with advanced AI features. This app offers tools for professionals, students, and creatives, including infinite whiteboards, AI-powered transcription and summarization, and customizable digital notebooks.

What We Love

🚀 Excellent note-taking experience
👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
🚀 Smooth writing with Apple Pencil
📁 Powerful organization with folders and notebooks
🖼️ Ability to annotate PDFs and documents
🌈 Customizable paper styles and covers

Room to Improve

🐛 Glitches and crashes
🔍 Syncing and iCloud issues
🔍 Lack of flexibility with text input
🔍 Limited eraser and highlighting options
🔍 Subpar performance on Mac app

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Moza - Mosaic, Blur

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