See Annotyze in action.
Nine everyday flows, screen by screen. Every screen below is a live replica of the app — try the interactive one on the home page.
Getting started
From first launch to your first photo — and the tabs waiting for what you add.
Open Annotyze for the first time and tap Get Started.
Annotyze reads your library so you can pick photos. It never uploads them or changes the originals.
Home starts empty, with an Add Image button and + in the tab bar.
Tap + to take a photo with the camera or choose one from your library — or press and hold the Annotyze icon on your Home Screen. A new photo is saved to Photos first.
It opens ready to mark, named after its file. Rename it any time from the ⋯ menu.
The Tags tab fills in as you tag Annotes, ready to browse by tag.
Create an album any time to group photos — references only, never copies.
Mark your first spot
From a photo in your library to a saved, searchable Annote in under a minute.
Pick any photo. The glass dock shows your shape tools and how many Annotes the photo has.
Tap or drag on the photo. The new Annote opens with a soft border and grips, ready to adjust.
Tap + in the dock — or + in any list. Write metadata, a tag and a note; they save together.
Close it and the Annote tucks into a small marker. Tap the marker any time to Peek.
Revisit and refine
Open an Annote from its marker, reshape it with confidence, and decide whether to keep the change.
Tap a marker. A glass callout shows the latest detail and a count of everything else.
Tap the callout. The Annote grows back to full size with its badges and grips.
Drag the shape. The rest of the photo frosts so you can focus on the subject.
Tap ✓ to save the new spot, or ✕ to put it back exactly where it was. Until then, only delete stays available.
Markers that sit close together stack into one with a count. Tap it for one bubble with a row per Annote — tap a row to open just that one.
Let AutoDetect trace it
Skip the drawing. Annotyze finds subjects on-device and traces their real outlines.
Press and hold the photo. Every subject AutoDetect can trace glows.
Choose AD and tap. The traced outline flashes, then becomes an editable freeform Annote.
Give it a tag or a note, and it's saved — just like any other Annote.
Organize and find
Your tags, albums and search turn a camera roll into a library you can actually use.
Home shows every photo you've annotated, with a count of Annotes on each.
The Tags tab lists every tag. Tap one to see each photo that carries it.
Search all your text, or narrow to Tags, Metadata or Notes.
Search says so plainly — try another word or a wider scope.
Collect photos into named, reorderable albums — references only, never copies.
Tap the clock in an album: one row per photo, dated when it joined. Open a row to see that photo's own history, with its original dates.
Work in bulk
Select many at once — photos on Home, or Annotes on a photo.
Long-press a tile to start selecting, then add them to an album or delete them.
Choose Multi-Select from the ⋯ menu, then tap Annotes — each previews its data. Add the same tag to all, or delete them together.
Open the timeline to see every change, newest first.
Copy to another photo
Carry your Annotes onto a newer photo of the same scene — same spots, all their data.
From the ⋯ menu choose Copy Annotes to… (or Copy Selected Annotes to… while multi-selecting), then pick a photo in Annotyze, choose one from your library, or take one.
See where every Annote will land, then keep their original dates or start them today. Tap Copy — the original isn't changed.
Annotyze says how many were copied. In Profile you can have a fully copied original removed from Annotyze, and choose when the new photo opens.
A copy's timeline shows when it was copied, with the history it brought tucked underneath — tap to open it.
Combine two photos
Two records of the same scene, each with part of the work — merge them into one.
Long-press a photo on Home, tap the second, then tap Combine.
Tap the photo to keep, then Combine. The other photo's Annotes move onto it at the same spots, with their dates.
Tap the eye to lay the other photo over this one, then move, resize or delete any Annote. Cancel leaves both photos as they were.
Finish asks first, then removes the other photo from Annotyze — never from Photos — and passes its albums to this one.
Help and privacy
Write to us without leaving the app, and read exactly what Annotyze keeps.
In Profile, Contact Support or Suggest a Feature opens Mail to [email protected] with your app version and device filled in. Help & FAQ opens this site.
Profile → Legal → Privacy Policy reads right in the app, even offline: what stays on your device, and what Annotyze never does. Terms of Use opens this site.
Try it for yourself.
The home page has a working replica — Peek, Look, drag, save and add data right in your browser.