# Private Scan: Document Scanner — Offline PDF & OCR. Pay Once.

> Offline PDF & OCR. Pay Once. (iPhone/iPad app by Vishut Dhar.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/private-scan-document-scanner/id6787127672 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Vishut Dhar](https://appshunter.io/developer/1823939798)
- Category: Productivity, Business
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 40 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-08
- Data updated: 2026-10-22

## What is Private Scan?

Scan anything into a clean, searchable PDF without an account, a subscription, or your documents leaving your device. Everything runs on your iPhone and iPad: edge detection, filters, text recognition, even smart naming. Your documents go only where you send them, and the only report the app makes is an anonymous usage and crash report with nothing from them in it, which you can turn off in Settings.

THE PRIVATE ONE
PrivateScan never sends your documents to a server for processing. Scanning, filters, text recognition, and even smart naming all run on your device, using Apple frameworks and an optional downloadable model. The app keeps your documents, their names, and their text on your device unless you send them. It does send anonymous usage and crash reports so we can fix crashes and improve it; they never include your documents, their names, their text or their images, and you can turn them off in Settings > Privacy.

SCAN ANYTHING
Point the camera at a page and PrivateScan finds the edges, straightens the result, and cleans it up. Scan books as open spreads and split them into facing pages, capture whiteboards without glare, compose ID cards and passports onto a single page for free, and import photos or PDFs. Keep everything organized in folders with color labels.

SIGN AND EDIT
Draw a signature once and place it on any page. Reorder, split, and combine documents. Rescue bad lighting with enhance, black & white, grayscale, and whiteboard filters.

FIND ANY DOCUMENT
Search is free for everyone and reads every scanned word, so a receipt, a contract, or a letter is one search away, even offline. Premium unlocks the extracted text itself: view it, copy it, export it, and embed it in your PDFs so they are searchable in any reader. Premium also adds smart naming, which titles each scan for you, so receipts stop being called "Scan 47". On an iPhone or iPad with enough memory, a small model that runs on your device names receipts and invoices once its 1.8 GB download is in place. Apple's text recognition names every other scan, and every scan on other devices. Translate extracted text without it leaving your device.

EXPORT ANY WAY YOU WORK
PDF, JPG, PNG, Word, Excel, TXT, and RTF, with file size presets, your own watermark, and password protected PDFs. Word and Excel exports build real .docx and .xlsx files entirely on your device, so even your editable documents never touch a server. Excel export finds the tables in a scan and turns them into rows and columns you can edit. Excel export requires iOS 26.

LOCK IT DOWN
Turn on the app lock and PrivateScan asks for Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode when it opens. Files are protected with iOS data protection so they stay encrypted while your device is locked. A privacy shield hides your documents in the app switcher.

YOUR DEVICES, YOUR CLOUD
iCloud sync is off by default. Turn it on and your documents sync through your own private iCloud, protected by your Apple Account. We run no servers and could not read your documents if we wanted to.

ONE PRICE, FOREVER
Scanning is free. A single purchase unlocks premium: text extraction, smart naming, Word and Excel export, password protected PDFs, exports without watermarks, and no limits on pages or exports. No subscription. Buy it once, own it forever, share it with your family through Family Sharing.

Your documents stay on your device. The privacy policy says exactly what the anonymous reports carry and how to turn them off: https://freedom-terminal.com/privatescan/privacy/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PrivateScan Premium | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Private Scan safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Private Scan.

## Is Private Scan legit?

Private Scan: Document Scanner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Private Scan is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.18 — 2026-10-22

Retake one page: the review after a scan now shows every page with its own blur check, and Retake This Page replaces just that page instead of starting the scan over.
Replace a page: from the page menu or Manage Pages, swap any page for a new capture, a photo or a file. The old image is removed for good.
Filter or rotate many pages at once: in Manage Pages, pick pages or all of them and apply a filter or a turn in one go. Pages with ink or a signature are left alone and counted.
Old copies are never removed on a guess: when the app cannot confirm that no other page uses a file, it keeps the file and cleans it up on the next launch.

### 1.17 — 2026-10-20

Redact Page: black out or pixelate anything on a page, and let Find Sensitive Text (premium) propose boxes over phone numbers, emails, card numbers, dates and addresses for you to review. A redaction replaces the stored page for good: search, thumbnails and exports forget the hidden words.
Fill Page: type into a form, add today's date, a checkmark, a cross or your initials, placed and sized the way you place a signature, then baked into the page. Free for everyone.
Open PDFs and images from other apps: PrivateScan now appears in the share sheet's Open in list and on the Mac's Open With menu, and the file lands in your library like any import.
PDF exports offer a paper size: Original, Letter, A4 or Legal, starting from your region's paper.
Send Feedback in Settings and About opens a mail to us with the app version and your device filled in, nothing else.

### 1.16 — 2026-10-15

Smart naming now works on the Mac: on an Apple silicon Mac with at least 16 GB of memory, Settings offers the model download, and once it is on your Mac it names receipts and invoices for you.
Files you import keep the names you gave them; a file with a camera or scanner name is named like any other scan.
The Black & White filter preview shows the page as the filter will render it, the markup bar fits the Mac window, and the model download sheet speaks of your Mac on a Mac.

### 1.15 — 2026-10-12

PrivateScan asks for an App Store rating after your first completed scan instead of after your first export.
A smart naming model whose files were cut short on the device is now repaired automatically: the app removes the damaged copy once and downloads the model again on its own conditions, instead of asking the server about it on every launch.
The Remove model button in Settings now deletes exactly the folder the model lives in.

### 1.14 — 2026-10-05

PrivateScan now sends anonymous usage events and crash reports, so we can fix crashes and see how the app is used. They never include your documents, their names, their text or their images. You can turn them off in Settings > Privacy with the switch Share anonymous usage and crash reports, and the privacy policy lists exactly what they carry.
When smart naming runs, it now asks for model files only over a connection that is not cellular, expensive or in Low Data Mode.
A naming model the app has confirmed complete on your device now loads with no network request.
The privacy policy link in Settings now opens the policy on freedom-terminal.com.

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