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MakeSense.ai offers a free browser-based workspace for preparing photo datasets for computer vision. It supports point, line, rectangle, polygon and label annotations, plus model-assisted labeling with YOLOv5, SSD pretrained on COCO and PoseNet. You can load your own YOLOv5 models exported to TensorFlow.js and export supported annotations in formats such as CSV, YOLO, VOC XML, VGG JSON and COCO JSON. Images are not sent to a server, and the tool can also be set up locally or with Docker.
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Label Studio
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3Teams labeling varied data types through APIs and ML integrations — Label Studio covers text, images, audio, video, time series and multimodal data, with APIs, SDKs and configurable labeling workflows.
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Roboflow
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+4Computer vision teams building and deploying applications — Roboflow extends image annotation into preprocessing, augmentation, hosted inference and deployment across web, mobile, edge and on-premise options.
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VGG Image Annotator
Free plan Open source LinuxMacSelf-hosted+2Offline manual annotation of images, audio and video — VIA runs offline as a browser-based HTML file and supports audio and video as well as images, with shared projects in VIA3.
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Vailabel Studio
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsLocal-first image, video and multimodal annotation — Vailabel Studio is a desktop app with local storage, on-device AI suggestions, video tracking and SAM smart segmentation.
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Annota AI
Free plan Self-hostedWebImage annotation combined with document OCR and review — Annota AI combines image masks and annotation with document OCR, page-by-page review and Markdown ZIP or Obsidian-compatible exports.
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CVAT
Free plan APISelf-hostedWebTeams labeling video, 3D and audio with quality controls — CVAT adds video, 3D and audio labeling, review workflows, more than 20 export formats, automation and managed or air-gapped deployment.
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Draw Attention
Free plan Self-hostedWebWordPress sites adding interactive image hotspots — Draw Attention creates visitor-facing image maps with clickable hotspots and WordPress embedding, rather than computer vision dataset annotation.
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BasicAI
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Labellerr
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Pixano
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Supervisely
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Ultralytics Platform
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Xtreme1
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Labelbox
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PixLab Annotate
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Segments.ai
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V7 Darwin
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Keylabs
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Kili Technology
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Annotate-Lab
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Labelme
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Dataloop
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FiftyOne
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Encord
Paid APISelf-hostedWeb
That focus may not fit projects involving text, audio, video, documents or 3D data, or workflows needing structured review, broad automation or managed deployment. Some annotation and format combinations are unsupported, so check that the imports and exports you need are available. When switching, weigh the data types, annotation and quality-control tools, model connections, storage, APIs, deployment choices and privacy controls that your workflow requires. Also compare export formats and whether a free plan covers your needs or paid access is necessary.
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