Watermarking photos for Instagram has become a popular practice among content creators, photographers and businesses. Why are Instagram users resorting to this technique? Well, basically to protect their content from unauthorized use.
Adding a watermark to a photo can help to deter others from copying or reposting an image without giving the proper credit. By placing a unique watermark, whether it’s a copyright text, a logo, signature or brand name, you ensure your work is identifiable. A subtle yet visible watermark maintains the image’s aesthetics while providing a certain level of security, especially in a highly visual platform like Instagram where content is frequently reposted.
For iPhone users, there are numerous apps designed specifically to watermark photos. If you’re looking to safeguard your visual content and advertise your work at the same time, we’ve compiled a list of 10 apps to help you accomplish your task.
PhotoMarks
PhotoMarks is a user-friendly app to watermark photos on iPhone. The app gives you the possibility to add pictures directly from Photos, to insert multiple layers of text and logo marks, make all the adjustments you want to them and undo and redo your actions whenever is necessary. You can easily resize, position and rotate your watermark on the photo, choose the preferred font style and color, set the transparency or add a shadow effect.
PhotoMarks is designed with a couple of features to help you improve your photo editing workflow. The app has batch processing capabilities in case you need to watermark multiple images at once. Also useful is the feature to save your current settings as profiles and load them in other editing sessions. Once you’re done editing, you have the possibility to save your new images on your iPhone, send them via email or directly share them with your followers on Instagram and Facebook.
- Price: Free (Pro version: $14.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 12.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
eZy Watermark
eZy Watermark is a solution to easily capture, watermark and share images on Instagram. The app is easy to use and offers the opportunity to integrate various graphic elements to protect your original content. You can opt for a classic, copyright or trademark text, insert a brand logo or resort to a modern QR code. You can also draw your own signature. No matter which one you choose, the app allows you to customize it as you please.
eZy Watermark enables you to process multiple images simultaneously and to create and save your own templates. In addition to watermarking, you’ll find options to beautify your shots with a large collection of stickers, to crop and rotate photos, as well as apply black and white filters. When it comes to exporting and importing your edited pictures, there are multiple options available. The app is compatible with many apps and platforms, including Instagram, WhatsApp or Google Drive.
- Price: $5.99
- Requirements: iOS 11.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Watermark Photo
Watermark Photo offers you diverse options to protect your photos on Instagram. You can insert your preferred text, import an already-existing logo and add your personal signature. You can also create a watermark from scratch. In that sense the app will place at your disposal over 1,000 graphical elements to mix and match. These include copyright icons, badges, textures, clip art, colors and more than 300 font styles.
Watermark Photo allows you to edit your watermarks in multiple ways, in order to meet your requirements in terms of size, placement and overall appearance. You can watermark images individually or in bulk, save a project for later use and directly share your newly-edited image on the desired social network. It’s worth mentioning that, in addition to pictures, you have the chance to add a watermark to your videos as well.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $39.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 15.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Watermark Studio X
Watermark Studio X is an iPhone watermark app you should check out. Why is that? Because it is equipped with a large variety of templates to choose from. All you have to do is choose one of the professionally-designed watermarks and then customize it with your personal info. The options are quite vast and range from hashtag or location watermarks to classic copyright text and registered mark.
If you don’t want to select one of the pre-designed models, you have the possibility of creating your own watermark. Unfortunately, this option, just like many other, is not available in the free standard version. On the plus side, the developers update the collection of templates with fresh designs on a constant basis. In addition, the app allows you to crop your photos based on aspect ratio.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $19.99/month)
- Requirements: iOS 15.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
iWatermark
iWatermark stands out through the variety of watermark types it offers. You can insert a simple or arc text, your logo, a QR code, GPS, IPTC and EXIF metadata, draw, import or scan your signature or add borders and lines. All these are visible on your pictures. But you can also add an invisible watermark called StegoMark. This represents a proprietary steganographic method of embedding personal information not in the image itself, but in the image data.
If you don’t have a watermark, the app gives you the opportunity to design one using a vast library of vector and bitmap watermarks and hundreds of font styles. You can take advantage of the numerous settings to customize your watermark, from the font size, spacing and angle to the opacity and special effects like engrave and emboss. It’s also possible to enable a tile mode and repeat your watermark across the image. You can create a database of your watermarks for instant reuse, export/import them and process as many images as you need simultaneously.
- Price: $4.99
- Requirements: iOS 16.1 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Add Watermark
Add Watermark is designed to add a watermark to your iPhone photos and videos. You can type in the preferred copyright or trademark text, import your brand logo or choose one of the built-in watermark templates and edit it with your own data. The app lets you create and save your new watermark as a template, share your design, as well as receive a design from a co-worker or friend.
Add Watermark provides multiple customization options. These include adjusting the scale of your text/logo, its placement and rotation, editing the font, color, background and more. What’s interesting is the fact that the app comes with a couple of watermark patterns. You can opt for a free style, a cross & plus style and a tile style to fill the entire image with your desired watermark. To boost efficiency, you can batch watermark your photos.
- Price: Free (Premium version: $29.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 14.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Mix on Pix
Mix on Pix is an iPhone app that can serve multiple purposes. You can use this app not only to protect the visual content posted on Instagram, but also to enhance it. Mix on Pix is a multifunctional solution that lets you add almost anything to your pictures. You can use it as a typography app (more than 500 fonts available), to add watermarks, the date and time, your own comments or stock texts, stock art, arrows, shapes, handwritings and drawings.
No matter what design or text item you choose to insert into your pictures, the app gives you complete control over it. You can make all the adjustments you want, group and save your items for later use, including your watermarks, and also create multiple sessions. In addition, there are features to crop your images and add elegant borders to them. You have the option of saving and sharing your photos at full resolution, as well as send them in the PDF format.
- Price: Free
- Requirements: iOS 16.4 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Add Watermark to Photos
This is another app designed to protect your images before posting them on Instagram. Add Watermark to Photos is fairly easy to use and offers three ways to mark your photos. You can add a text with your name, website or company name, insert your signature or load your logo. At the same time, you have the option to import an image, remove the background and transparency and turn into a watermark.
The app allows you to customize your text/logo by choosing its exact location on the picture, changing its size, adjusting the opacity level and more. If you want to perform other operations, it’s possible to draw freely and to add various photo filters, such as sepia, black and white, vignette or pixelate. You can save the created watermarks for later use and directly share your edited pics with friends and followers.
- Price: Free (Remove ads: $1.99)
- Requirements: iOS 13.6 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Watermark++
Watermark++ is an alternative to use not only for watermarking, but also photo editing reasons. In addition to protecting your photographs from misuse, this app is perfectly capable of enhancing them as well. Watermark++ comes with numerous photo filters to stylize your shots and a good amount of tools to erase the background, blur your images, add rounded corners, mark up or draw on your pictures.
The app enables you to apply multiple layers of watermarks and customize them in various ways. You’re free to add any given text, import a logo or insert your handwritten signature. If you don’t have a watermark, you can create one by taking advantage of the multitude of symbols, icons, fonts and colors available. When you’ve finished, you can export your new photos at high resolution or share them with others on social media.
- Price: Free (Lifetime plan: $9.99)
- Requirements: iOS 16.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Watermark Maker
Watermark Maker is a watermark app for iPhone equipped with numerous features. Unfortunately, many of those features aren’t available in the free standard version and can be accessed only after upgrading to the Pro version. The app is designed to batch watermark photos and videos using a copyright text, logo or your signature. It’s also possible to create a new watermark with the aid of the ample library of clip art, symbols, stylish fonts and colors.
You can make the necessary edits to the incorporated text and logo and also change the thickness and color of the pen when inserting your signature. It’s worth mentioning that Watermark Maker can be put to use for other purposes. The app allows you to apply dozens of filters to your pics and clips, add the date and time using different styles, emoticons, fun kits, stickers and frames to your images. You can take advantage of the built-in editing tools to improve your pictures and also create photo collages.
- Price: Free (Pro version: $2.99/month)
- Requirements: iOS 13.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store