Draw Attention vs VGG Image Annotator

Draw Attention is a WordPress plugin for creating interactive image maps. Site owners draw polygon, rectangle, or circle hotspots that visitors can click, tap, or hover over. Hotspots can display text, images, shortcodes, galleries, video, or audio, or direct visitors to another URL. The free edition supports one interactive image. Pro adds six information layouts—tooltip, lightbox, top, bottom, left, and right—and allows unlimited interactive images and clickable areas. The plugin can be inserted with a shortcode, Beaver Builder module, or WordPress Editor Block, and the maker names WPML as a compatible translation plugin. It says image content is available to screen readers, hotspots support keyboard commands, and content remains accessible without JavaScript through an image-map fallback. Plugin data stays in the site owner’s WordPress database; a Pro license key is periodically sent for status checks. Free costs nothing; Pro costs $99 a year for one website or $199 a year for unlimited websites.

VGG Image Annotator (VIA) is a suite of lightweight browser tools for manually annotating images, audio, and video. The applications are distributed as single HTML files, allowing offline use without installation or setup. VIA3 handles images, video, audio, and shared or collaborative projects. VIA2 works with image files, does not support shared projects, and remains maintained. Annotation shapes include rectangles, circles, ellipses, points, polygons, and polylines. Projects can import or export annotations as CSV or JSON, while scripts support COCO and Web Annotation formats; a Python package converts VIA projects to COCO. Shared work can use a free public Version File Store maintained by the Visual Geometry Group, or a user-run VFS. VIA is built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without external libraries and released under the two-clause BSD license for academic and commercial use. Downloads include ZIP archives and standalone HTML files for versions 2 and 3. The makers provide a guide, FAQ, and email contacts.