Annotate: Screenshot Markup1.12

Annotate helps you quickly mark up screenshots and images with clean, readable shapes and text - built for fast, polished results on iPhone and iPad.

. 17 tools: Crop, Blur, Pixelate, Text, Number, Stamp, Rect, Oval, Arrow, Pen, Marker, Highlight, Loupe, Backdrop, Image, GIF, Watermark
. Clean shapes and highlights, plus freehand pen and marker
. Animated GIFs - bring your screenshots to life: search KLIPY right in the editor, drop a GIF on the canvas, and your export turns into a video. Powered by KLIPY
. Text with font, size, alignment, and optional background
. Number badges and SF Symbols stamps (with search)
. Blur or pixelate areas, and use a loupe to magnify details
. Auto-Redact: detect and hide sensitive info in one tap - credit cards, phone numbers, emails, license plates, and faces
. Full control over style: stroke width, fill, outlines, shadow, opacity, configurable arrowheads, and more
. Free rotation - turn shapes, text, stamps, images, GIFs, and more to any angle with a precision dial
. ∞ Layers: one layer per annotation - select, reorder, and delete
. Helpful extras: snapping for neat alignment, undo/redo, zoom to fit/100%
. Apple Pencil ready - palm rejection kicks in automatically so the Pencil draws while your fingers still pan and pinch
. Grow the canvas - add space on any edge to make room for callouts and shapes
. Backdrop styles - frame your screenshot with gradients or solid colors, and choose whether the backdrop pads the canvas or fits inside it
. Watermark - add text or a logo across the whole image (tiled) or in a corner to brand and protect your work
. Templates - save a set of annotations, backdrop, and watermark, then reapply them to any image; positions adapt to the new aspect ratio
. Start from Photos, Files, clipboard, or a blank canvas - or pick an iOS device preset (iPhone 17, iPad Pro, etc.)
. Export and share fast (PNG, JPEG, or HEIC)
. Shortcuts - run Auto-Redact and Framing from the Shortcuts app, Spotlight, and Siri

Test free for the first 5 annotated images.

Annotate is brought to you by the developer of Dropshare - the file sharing app for macOS and iOS.

Version History • Full iPhone Duo support: unfolded, the large inner display gets the iPad layout with the floating Style sidebar, popovers, and the full tool palette, and folded, the outer display keeps the iPhone layout. The layout follows the available width instead of the device type, so it switches as you fold or unfold, and resized windows on iPad adapt as well 1.12 4d ago • Fixed a serious bug: saving after expanding or cropping the canvas could store the previous image, so the document reopened with the wrong canvas and everything out of place. Affected documents are repaired when opened
• Drawing tools stay selected after each shape: draw one arrow, box or stroke after another without tapping the canvas in between, and a drag that starts on an existing annotation draws instead of doing nothing
• Save without closing: the editor menu now has Save, and saving an edited canvas updates its entry in Recents instead of adding a copy. Your work is also saved when you leave the app
• Name your canvases: rename a document from the editor or from Recents, and filter Recents by title
• Copy an annotation in one document and paste it into another, at the same size, right where you're looking. ⌘C, ⌘V and ⌘D on a hardware keyboard
• Fonts: the picker shows which typefaces can draw your text instead of quietly mixing in the system font, previews each one, includes the hand-drawn Excalifont, offers every font installed on your device, and imports your own TTF/OTF fonts (Settings → Fonts)
• Number badges can be rounded squares, pins or speech bubbles, with a tip you drag to point at anything
• Pen strokes can be rotated, like marker strokes; rotated strokes stay selectable exactly where they are drawn
• Greek has been fully reworked (Layers are now "Επίπεδα", snapping is "Προσκόλληση", and dozens more), Settings has a Language row that takes you to the app's language setting, and the share extension is finally translated
• iPhone Duo support: on the large inner display, Annotate now uses the iPad layout with the floating Style sidebar, popovers, and the full tool palette
• The layout now follows the available width instead of the device type, so resized windows on iPad adapt as well
• Transparent images keep their transparency: a PNG or HEIC with a transparent background chosen from Photos or placed with the image tool no longer appears with a black background 1.11.1 Sep 28 • Fixed a serious bug: saving after expanding or cropping the canvas could store the previous image, so the document reopened with the wrong canvas and everything out of place. Affected documents are repaired when opened
• Drawing tools stay selected after each shape: draw one arrow, box or stroke after another without tapping the canvas in between, and a drag that starts on an existing annotation draws instead of doing nothing
• Save without closing: the editor menu now has Save, and saving an edited canvas updates its entry in Recents instead of adding a copy. Your work is also saved when you leave the app
• Name your canvases: rename a document from the editor or from Recents, and filter Recents by title
• Copy an annotation in one document and paste it into another, at the same size, right where you're looking. ⌘C, ⌘V and ⌘D on a hardware keyboard
• Fonts: the picker shows which typefaces can draw your text instead of quietly mixing in the system font, previews each one, includes the hand-drawn Excalifont, offers every font installed on your device, and imports your own TTF/OTF fonts (Settings → Fonts)
• Number badges can be rounded squares, pins or speech bubbles, with a tip you drag to point at anything
• Pen strokes can be rotated, like marker strokes; rotated strokes stay selectable exactly where they are drawn
• Greek has been fully reworked (Layers are now "Επίπεδα", snapping is "Προσκόλληση", and dozens more), Settings has a Language row that takes you to the app's language setting, and the share extension is finally translated
• iPhone Duo support: on the large inner display, Annotate now uses the iPad layout with the floating Style sidebar, popovers, and the full tool palette
• The layout now follows the available width instead of the device type, so resized windows on iPad adapt as well 1.11 Sep 23 • Magnify tool: the connecting line between the lens and the magnified area can now be hidden 1.10 Aug 17 • The Magnify tool can now use a rounded rectangle, not just a circle 1.9 Jul 17 • Added option to crop images added with the Image Tool 1.8 Jul 17 Hotfix 1.7.1: Remember the Highlight tool's stroke width across sessions

• Added GIFs and stickers
• Added aspect ratio and size lock to the crop tool
• Added a precision loupe to the crop tool
• Added the option to rotate annotations
• Added the option to close and save your canvas without sharing
• Fixed an issue where showing or hiding a sheet could trigger size-to-fit and incorrectly resize the canvas 1.7.1 Jul 1 • Added GIFs and stickers
• Added aspect ratio and size lock to the crop tool
• Added a precision loupe to the crop tool
• Added the option to rotate annotations
• Added the option to close and save your canvas without sharing
• Fixed an issue where showing or hiding a sheet could trigger size-to-fit and incorrectly resize the canvas 1.7 Jun 28 • Templates: save your annotations for reuse and apply them to new images in one tap
• Snap guides for drawing perfect squares and circles
• Added SF Pro Rounded to the text annotation font options
• Added letter spacing controls to text annotations
• Added dashed and dotted stroke borders for rectangles
• Fixed curved arrow rendering 1.6 Jun 22 • Re-opened recent annotations are no longer saved as a duplicate when shared without changes. 1.5.2 Jun 18 • Reorder the tools in the editor toolbar.
• Optionally show tool names in the editor toolbar. 1.5.1 Jun 17 • New Photo Editing Extension: annotate your photos right inside the Photos app.
• Annotate from the share sheet: mark up images in any app like Files or Safari, and changes can be saved back.
• You can now change the canvas background color in the editor.
• Expand the canvas by a custom number of pixels.
• Fixed a bug with the highlight annotation.
• Fixed a bug with the stamp annotation.
• Fixed a bug with remembering pixelation and blur strength.
• Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.5 Jun 16 • The Watermark tool is now a Shortcut - run it from the Shortcuts app, Spotlight, and Siri. 1.4.1 Jun 10 • New Watermark tool - add text or a logo across your image, tiled or in a corner.
• Auto-Redact and Framing are now Shortcuts - run them from the Shortcuts app, Spotlight, and Siri.
• Faster Auto-Redact: touch and hold the Blur or Pixelate tool to detect and redact instantly.
• Auto-Redact now detects license plates and faces.
• Loupe: move the magnified area independently from the lens to point at any detail.
• Highlight: the dimming level is now adjustable. 1.4 Jun 9 - Added highlight tool
- Changed Liquid Glass material for better readability of the toolbar 1.3 Jun 4 - Fixed an issue that appeared when exporting small cropped images 1.2.1 Jun 2 - Added iOS 18 compatibility
- Added more options for image annotations
- Added support for Image Playground
- Added option to hide tools from the toolbar
- Added option to duplicate annotations
- Fixed an issue with text resizing when a fixed font size was selected 1.2 May 24 - Added text shadow and outline options
- Empty canvas background color is now remembered
- Fixed issue with arrow annotation animating when extending canvas 1.1.1 May 20 - Added snap-guides for resizing/moving annotations
- Fixed issue with pinch-to-zoom and canvas jumping out of the viewport
- Forced number and stamp annotations to a square aspect ratio
- Improved snap-guide release tolerance
- Added vertical alignment for text
- Fixed text size when editing text and using a fixed font size
- Fixed an issue where deleted annotations were briefly visible behind pixelation, blur or loupe annotations
- Added dynamic stroke adjustment for very short arrows
- Added a third drag handle to arrow annotations for curved arrows
- Increased touch targets for all resize handles 1.1 May 18 Added link to User Guide 1.0.2 May 14 Fixing an issue with showing the in-app purchase when the free limit has been reached 1.0.1 May 14 1.0 May 14