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This by TinRocket

Annotation made very, very simple

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99¢ Developer Tinrocket, tinrocket.com Platform Universal Requiremen­ts iOS 9.2 or later

This app sits very firmly in the minimalist category. Want to annotate your images without a plethora of typeface and color options to confuse? Then This will do the job very nicely.

Tap on the camera icon, then either take a shot or select one from your photo library, then tap on any part of the image you’d like to caption and you’ll see “(This)” text on the screen with a pointer. Hit the text element, and a text bar pops up. Simply overwrite the default text, choose from either black or white for your text and annotation marker and then choose what kind of arrow head you’d like – such as a bullet point or a heart.

So, elements you can vary are the black/ white options, arrow heads, and text size. And you can reposition your pointer. And that is that for This. It’s bare bones done well. But it really is a case of bare bones. You only get one sans serif font – and you can’t even play around with bold or italic, or text alignment… And there are no other color options for your arrows or text.

At 99¢, the app is inexpensiv­e, but we’d associate this low level of customizat­ion with a free app. Apps like Skitch are free and offer a greater degree of tweakabili­ty. The app is certainly stylish and you can share results easily to social networking sites, but we hope the developer is planning to introduce updates that allow for a little more variation. While we like the fact that you’re not bombarded with choices, a little opportunit­y to play around would make the price totally reasonable.

the bottom line. Easy to use with clean and clear results, but will be too simplistic for many.

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