Skitch is an app from Evernote. The system allows users to add text, shapes, stamps, and drawings to images such as screenshots, photos, floor plans, and PDF files. The app is intended to be used in conjunction with an Evernote account, allowing the images to be saved and shared through the platform. The images can also be shared through Twitter, Facebook, email, or public URL.
Intended for use with iPads, iAnnotate provides a variety of tools to add notes to images, PDF files, Word documents, and PowerPoint slide shows. Annotation can be added as text or voice notes, and there are tools for highlighting, underlining, and strike-through. Files can be shared through Dropbox, Google Drive, and other cloud-based services.
Cycloramic is an app that makes an iPhone spin 360 degrees to take panoramic photos and video. The app operates hands-free with an iPhone5 or in guided mode on other iOS devices. An update in June added an editing studio that allows users to add text and filters to photos. Images can be saved in the app’s library and shared via email or on social networks.
SpeakingPhoto allows users to add as many as 30 seconds of voice notes to a photo. Multiple photos can be compiled into a storyboard and then saved to the camera roll or shared via email, Facebook, or YouTube. An update later this month will allow users to combine eight images; the current version allows five. SpeakingPhoto is an app for iPhone and iPad, but the update will allow Android users to receive and play the photos.
Over is an iPhone and iPad app that allows users to add artistic text and artwork to photos. The app offers more than 200 fonts. After adding text, users can save images to their camera roll or share via Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr.
Snagit is a screen-capturing system. With one click, users can capture images, Web pages, or articles, and then add effects such as text, arrows, or highlighting. There’s also a blur tool to hide parts of the image. All of the captured images are saved to a library and can be searched by date, Web site, or keyword. Images can be shared via email, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and more.
Tapose is an iPad app that lets users create journals, collaborate, and share documents. Users can take notes while incorporating pictures, images, audio, video, and free-form drawings. The app is made to look like a journal with two independent screens so users can have an image open on one while taking notes on the other. Collaboration can be done in real time, or users can share journals as PDF files through email, Evernote, and Dropbox. Tapose was recently purchased by Inadev, and the company is in the process of revamping the app to provide versions for business and consumer use.
Vobok allows users to record as many as 30 seconds of voice notes, which can be shared along with a photo through the app’s feed or on Twitter or Facebook. The app can also be used to send private voice messages via email.
