Since its release in 2010, Instagram has grown into one of the most voguish social platforms worldwide. And it’s not stopping. Its popularity is growing at a tremendous pace, and there’s no greater proof than the fact that the social network has reached 700 million users this year.
With visual communication as its focal point, Instagram is a great place to share photos and videos and develop a real connection with your audience. At the same time, it’s a place where photo thieves can thrive. It’s truly disappointing when you create great imagery by sheer hard work and before long see those pictures on someone else’s profile.
To avoid that and hence discourage evil-minded users from stealing your work, you can resort to apps specially-built to watermark your Instagram photos. This way you not only do as much as you can to protect your work, but also get to market it and expand your online visibility.
To help you find the right solution for your needs, we’ve rounded up this list of apps created to safeguard your visual content and advertise your work at the same time:
PhotoMarks
PhotoMarks is an easy to use app to watermark photos on iPhone. The app lets you add both text and logo watermarks and completely customize them. This means you can rotate, scale and place your mark to your liking, select from a wide range of fonts and colors, adjust the transparency or apply special effects like shadow and stroke.
Truly useful for those who constantly watermark their pictures is the feature to save your marks as profiles and to easily use them again later. PhotoMarks works on multiple layers, which means you can make as many edits as you wish without altering the original images. Once you’re finished with your editing, you can directly share your photos on Instagram, Facebook or other social network.
- Requirements: iOS 9.0 or later
- Last Updated: July 31. 2017
- Download Link: App Store
Marksta
Marksta is an app developed by London-based photojournalist John D McHugh who became annoyed with users taking credit for his original photos. The app is designed to add text, as well as logo watermarks to your images and customize them in terms of position, size, font or opacity. With Marksta you can add and edit IPTC data, save multiple templates for higher efficiency and share your photos on social media directly from within the app. It’s important to mention that the app uses non-destructive editing, which means your original files won’t be modified.
- Requirements: iOS 7.0 or later
- Last Updated: March 26, 2015
- Download Link: App Store
Impression
Impression is another solution designed to help you watermark the photos taken with your smart phone. The app allows you to add text marks to your photos and change the color, font or opacity, as well as rotate and resize the text for the perfect appearance. Again, just like in the case of the first two apps mentioned, your original images won’t be affected by the edits made, since you’ll be working on a copy. The downside of Impression is the fact that you can’t add logo marks, only text, which makes it a restrictive option when it comes to watermarking.
- Requirements: iOS 9.1 or later
- Last Updated: November 22, 2016
- Download Link: App Store
eZy Watermark
Instagram isn’t only about sharing photos, but videos as well. eZy Watermark is an app for users who are looking to shoot their own clips, watermark them and share them on social media. The app enables users to add a large variety of watermarks from text and logo to signature and QR code and to customize them with regard to placement, rotation, opacity, fonts or colors. eZy Watermark is a great alternative for users who are dealing with multiple files, because the app has a batch mode feature through which users can watermark dozens of videos at the same time.
- Requirements: iOS 8.0 or later
- Last Updated: February 13, 2017
- Download Link: App Store
VideoWatermark
VideoWatermark is a basic solution to protect and market your videos on iOS devices. The app is designed to add text marks to videos and offers a couple of customization options: you can choose the size, font and color, as well as the positioning. VideoWatermark has an in-built social sharing option, which makes it easy to share your videos on any platform you want. The drawback with this app is that you can’t insert a logo watermark, only text.
- Requirements: iOS 6.0 or later
- Last Updated: August 5, 2014
- Download Link: App Store
This was our list of watermark apps for iPhone designed to protect your Instagram content. Do you use any of these apps? Or do you have another favorite one? If you do, share it with us by dropping us a comment below.
