A watermark can be an effective tool to help you protect your photos. By adding a copyright text or a logo you let every internet user know that you’re the only who has the right to use, edit and distribute those images across the web. You basically claim ownership of that material. Whoever will choose to ignore the watermark and download the pictures will be committing copyright infringement.
You can watermark your photos using diverse Mac apps. You don’t really need a complex editor like Photoshop to accomplish this task. Sure, Adobe’s software can get the job done, but it may not be the ideal solution when you take into account the high cost and steep learning curve. No, in this case it’s best to opt for a lightweight app particularly developed for watermarking.
Here’s our selection of tools designed to watermark images on Mac in a quick and simple way.
PhotoMarks
PhotoMarks is a Mac app designed to batch watermark photos with ease. The tool is as user-friendly as it gets, with an easy-to-follow, step-based interface and real-time previews for each change you make. All you have to do is add your photos in Step 1, apply and customize your watermark in Step 2 and choose your file destination and image format in Step 3.
With PhotoMarks you have the possibility of adding a copyright, registered or trademark text and symbol, a logo and various info extracted from the metadata records. You can customize your selected watermark(s) by freely adjusting the size, position and rotation, setting the transparency, choosing from a wide range of fonts and colors, applying a tile mode or drawing a bounding-box. Once you’ve set your configuration, you can save it for later use.
Besides watermarking, the program provides useful features to convert, resize, rotate, crop and decorate images with borders and frames. There are options to save your processed photos locally, upload them to your website through SFTP or send them via email. It’s worth mentioning that PhotoMarks comes with an iOS version as well in case you’d like to watermark your photos on iPhone.
Price
PhotoMarks comes with a fully-featured trial version (watermark applied to processed photos), without any time limitations. You can purchase a lifetime license for $29.95.
BatchPhoto
BatchPhoto gives you the possibility to watermark multiple photos at once in a truly timely manner. The tool is not only powerful enough to process hundreds of images simultaneously, but it is also simple to use thanks to the intuitive UI. You can insert any form of text, your copyright notice, your company logo, as well as a wide range of EXIF and IPTC tags, from ISO and focal length details to the GPS coordinates.
BatchPhoto allows you to make numerous adjustments to your watermark. In that sense you’ll find options to place it wherever you want (freely or by choosing from preset placements), to resize and rotate it, to select from a multitude of font styles and colors and to change the text’s/logo’s transparency. To improve your productivity, you can save your watermark configuration as a Profile and then simply load it in other sessions.
BatchPhoto boasts multiple features to optimize and enhance your images in bulk. Depending on your needs, you can convert, resize, automatically crop and rotate photos, add a date/time stamp, automatically adjust the contrast and color levels, improve the brightness or apply diverse artistic effects.
Price
BatchPhoto offers a fully-functional trial version, with a watermark stamped on the processed images. There are three available editions to choose from:
- Home: $29.95 (the Watermark filter is not available)
- Pro: $49.95
- Enterprise: $129.95
Watermark Plus
Watermark Plus offers Mac users the opportunity to apply their own text and image watermarks or choose one of the 17 built-in watermark profiles. With this app you’re free to type in a plain text to protect your pictures or import an existing logo. You can add EXIF info as well, but unfortunately there aren’t so many metadata tags to choose from. A script watermark option is also available in case you want to fill your photographs with text tags.
Watermark Plus comes with a series of settings and options to make your job easier. You can automatically fit watermarks to images of different sizes, group and ungroup your watermarks or save your design for later use. The programs offers a single mode, which allows you to individually adjust the position of the text/logo for each photo. You can freely move your watermark across the image, adjust the opacity, change the font and color or apply text effects. The only other operations you can perform are resizing and converting to a limited number of formats.
Price
Watermark Plus can be purchased from the Mac App Store for $9.99.
uMark
uMark is a watermark app for Mac developed with batch processing capabilities. The software comes with a user-friendly interface, with all the settings on the left side of the screen and an impressive preview area in the middle. Everything is in the right place, which means you’ll be able to quickly familiarize yourself with the app and how it works.
uMark makes it possible to add a simple text, a copyright notice, your logo or various metadata as watermarks. You can also stamp your authority using a QR code or diverse shapes that can be filled with solid or gradient colors. The program allows you to place the chosen watermark where you want on the image, change its size, rotate it to the desired angle, set its transparency level and more. You can resort to the tiling feature to repeat your watermark horizontally and/or vertically across the picture and save your settings for later use.
If you want to add something extra to your pictures, you can apply a shadow or customizable borders to them.
Price
uMark comes with a 15-day trial version. At the end of this period you’ll need to upgrade to the Professional edition for $29 in case you’d like to continue using the app.
Mass Watermark
As the name indicates it, Mass Watermark is a program designed to batch watermark images on Mac. This is a tool that serves a clear purpose, but this doesn’t mean it’s actually limited to just image protection. No, in fact it can be used to improve the overall quality of your photographs by retouching and optimizing them for web use.
Getting back to watermarking, the app is packed with useful features to simplify your task. You benefit from an intelligent watermark placement based on its size, a built-in watermark designer to create from scratch your own design, the possibility to create and save templates and plenty of options to customize your text/logo. Mass Watermark also comes with a QR code module, which allows you to generate your own code and stamp it on your photos. When you’re done, you can directly upload your pictures to Flickr or Google Photos.
Price
Mass Watermark comes with a free trial version, which stamps the software’s logo centrally over the processed images. You can purchase a lifetime license at the cost of $30.
Watermark.ws
Watermark.ws represents a desirable solution in case you just don’t want to install a new app on your Mac. This is an alternative that gives you the opportunity to watermark photos directly from your browser. The process is quite simple and requires three stages: import your images from a local folder or any social media platform, watermark and edit them and lastly download the new files locally or export them to the cloud/social networks.
Watermark.ws allows you to watermark not only still photos, but also GIF’s, videos and PDF documents. For that purpose you can use a custom text, your logo or your signature. At the same time you can choose from 10 presets, which include a simple or multi-line signature and various text designs. Besides image watermarking, this online tool offers useful options to resize, crop and rotate your pictures, as well as apply photo filters.
Price
Watermark.ws offers a limited basic version, with few watermarking options and no possibility to edit multiple photos at the same time. To remove these limitations you’ll need to upgrade to one of the two paid editions:
- Premium: $4.17/month
- Ultimate: $8.33/month
PhotoJob 3
PhotoJob 3 is a Mac utility designed to watermark and edit photos in bulk. The program is fairly easy to use thanks to the clearly-designed interface. There are three main sections: on the left side you’ll find the files added, on the right you’ll find your editing options, while in the center you can see a real-time preview of the edits made to your images.
To protect your pictures, you can insert any form of text accompanied by special characters, EXIF info or your logo. PhotoJob 3 also comes with a built-in QR code generator, which allows you to create an image using your URL, phone number, personal email or GPS coordinates. In terms of watermark customization, the options are quite extensive. You can change the placement, the size, rotation and opacity of your text/logo, choose from various fonts, colors and drawing styles and more.
In addition to watermarking, the app can be used to convert and resize images, to automatically adjust color levels and enhance the white balance, curves, highlights and shadows.
Price
PhotoJob 3 offers a free version, which is limited to exporting only one file at a time. To remove all the restrictions you’ll need to upgrade to the premium version:
- Monthly access: $0.99
- Yearly access: $6.99
Watermark Sense
Watermark Sense is a batch watermark software for Mac created to aid you protect/promote your original photography. In that sense you’ll be able to apply both text and image marks to your pics and fully customize them. The app lets you change the size and location of the watermark on the photo, configure the opacity, select the preferred font and color, select a blending mode and apply diverse effects to adjust its appearance to your preferences.
Watermark Sense places at your disposal several features to improve the watermarking process. You can manually position the text/logo for individual photos and also sync the positioning between photos, cover the entire image with your chosen watermark and save your watermark and export settings as custom presets. In addition, you’ll find useful options to rename, rotate and flip multiple images, as well as edit the EXIF/IPTC metadata.
Price
Watermark Sense offers a trial copy for testing. A license, to gain full use of the app, costs $19.99.
Star Watermark
Star Watermark is another tool that enables Mac users to apply multiple layers of watermarks to their photos. The software isn’t that difficult to use, but what’s rather peculiar is the watermarking process. As opposed to other programs, this one requires to first create a watermark template and only afterwards apply it to your collection of images.
With Star Watermark you can add a text and/or logo to your pictures and customize each one to match your preferences. There are options to change the location (only preset placements available) of the watermark, resize and rotate it, adjust the transparency or apply diverse text effects. You can also fill the whole image with your watermark to maximize protection. If you plan on further editing your pictures, the possibilities are rather scarce. You can only resize and compress your files.
Price
Star Watermark offers a free evaluation version with limited features (only text marks), but without applying a watermark to the processed images. If you want to purchase the app, you can choose between:
- Annual subscription: $2.49/month
- Monthly subscription: $9.95/month
- Lifetime license: $39.95 (usable for 20 years)
WhatAMark
WhatAMark is our final alternative to watermark images in bulk on Mac. The app lets you add multiple text and logo watermarks to your photos and edit them in various ways. You can control the appearance of your watermark by adjusting its position and size, selecting the font and color, setting the transparency level or adding a background or image rectangle.
WhatAMark offers previews for the changes made and a before/after mode, which allows you to visualize the edited picture alongside the original. To increase your efficiency you can save your watermarks as presets and easily load them for other projects. The program allows you to rename and convert your images to popular formats, but lacks other photo editing features.
Price
You can purchase WhatAMark and enjoy all the available features for $5.99.
