# Sift: PDF Scanner & OCR — Scan it. Never name it. > Scan it. Never name it. (iPhone/iPad app by Anshul Jain.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sift-pdf-scanner-and-ocr/id6792081358 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Anshul Jain](https://appshunter.io/developer/1823688921) - Category: Productivity, Business - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-30 - Data updated: 2026-08-28 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sift-pdf-scanner-and-ocr/id6792081358/reviews.md ## What is Sift? Every document scanner reads your page. Then it saves the file as "2024-05-22 00:45:29" and hands you an empty folder. Sift uses what it just read. Scan a receipt and it saves as "Blue Bottle Coffee - Receipt - Mar 2026", already filed under Receipts. You tap Save, not Rename. Then, weeks later, you swipe down on your Home Screen, type "lease", and there it is - because Sift indexes the text inside every scan into iOS Spotlight. All of it happens on your iPhone. Sift has no servers, no account, and makes no network calls. THE LIBRARY THAT FILES ITSELF • Automatic titles - Sift finds the letterhead, the vendor, and the date, and writes the title for you • Automatic filing - receipts, bills, IDs, contracts, medical records, tax documents, notes • Everything editable - it's a suggestion, not a decision. Change anything before you save. FIND ANYTHING, INSTANTLY • Search the text inside your documents, not just their filenames • Find scans from your Home Screen with Spotlight - no need to open Sift first • Every result opens straight to the document SCANS THAT WORK EVERYWHERE ELSE • Real searchable PDFs - Sift writes an invisible text layer into every export, so you can select and search the text in Preview, Acrobat, or Files. Not just a picture of a page. • Clean captures with automatic edge detection and perspective correction • Four filters - Original, Enhanced, Grayscale, Black & White - applied to every page at once, not one at a time • Import what you already have - photos and PDFs from Photos or Files, read and filed the same way • Sign and mark up a page with your finger - save your signature once and stamp it on any document • Reorder, rotate, split, and drop pages; export as PDF, compressed PDF, or JPG • Fine-tune brightness and contrast on top of the four filters ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS (ON SUPPORTED DEVICES) On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, ask Sift about any scan - "what's the total?", "when does this lease end?" - and get answers from that document, generated entirely on your device. If the answer isn't in the document, Sift says so instead of guessing. No cloud AI, ever. SCAN FROM ANYWHERE • "Hey Siri, scan with Sift" • Add scanning to a Shortcut, your Action Button, or Control Center PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION, NOT BY PROMISE • No servers. No account. No sign-up. No network calls. • No analytics. No ads. No third-party SDKs of any kind. • No tracking permission prompt - because there is nothing in Sift to track you with. • Your IDs, contracts, and medical records never leave your iPhone. They can't - there's nowhere for them to go. • Want Sift locked? Long-press its icon and choose Require Face ID - iOS locks it system-wide FREE FOREVER - GENUINELY Unlimited scanning. Unlimited pages. Text recognition. Automatic titling. Automatic filing. Search. Spotlight. PDF export. No limits, no watermark, no ads. We can give this away because it all runs on your device and costs us nothing to serve. There is no paywall in onboarding, ever, and nothing above is gated. Sift shows the price twice on its own, after it titles your first scan and after your first export. Both have a full-size Not now and block nothing. SIFT PRO (OPTIONAL) Adds encrypted backup & restore (pack your whole library into one password-protected file you save wherever you like), document expiry reminders, batch tools, text export, watermarked exports, and password-protected PDFs. Every plan and its true cost is shown on one screen, with the price printed on the button. Weekly or Yearly (each with a 7-day free trial you have to actually choose), or a one-time Lifetime purchase in Settings. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and are managed in your Apple Account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and never renews. Privacy Policy: https://ajain26.github.io/app-policies/sift/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Sift Pro (Weekly) | $6.99 | per 7 days | | Sift Pro (Yearly) | $34.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Sift Pro (Lifetime) | $79.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-08-24 Onboarding now takes you straight to the camera permission prompt, with no extra step in between. Refreshed the App Store screenshots. Purchases and restores are more reliable, and if something does go wrong you get a plain explanation instead of a system error code. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-09 Sift 1.1 is a big one. NEW • Recognizes text in more languages: automatic detection is on by default, or pick your languages in Settings • Edit recognized text: fix any OCR mistake and the correction flows into search, Spotlight and exported PDFs • Pinch to zoom on any page • Print any document right from its menu • Star documents and filter the library to just your starred ones • Undo after deleting: a 5-second window instead of an "are you sure" dialog • 7-day free trial now available on the weekly plan too FIXED • Exported PDFs now carry the complete recognized text, not just the first line of each paragraph • Home Screen (Spotlight) search results no longer quietly disappear after a month • Dates found on documents no longer shift by one day in western time zones • Expiry reminders fire on the right day and are cleaned up when a document is deleted • Camera permission problems now explain themselves instead of showing a black screen • Faster and smoother: scanning, importing, exporting and backups now happen off the main thread • Dozens of smaller fixes to saving, importing, restoring and the paywall ### 1.0 — 2026-07-30 No release notes. ## More apps by Anshul Jain - [Kidzy: ABC Phonics & Tracing](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kidzy-abc-phonics-and-tracing/id6755493603) - [LunaLull: Sleep Sounds](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lunalull-sleep-sounds/id6756045443) - [Vocabword: Word of the Day](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vocabword-word-of-the-day/id6758582819) - [AI Clean Loom: Clean Storage](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ai-clean-loom-clean-storage/id6758867920) - [RemoteNest - Smart TV Remote](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/remotenest-smart-tv-remote/id6760420441) - [ScanCraft: QR Code Scanner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scancraft-qr-code-scanner/id6760904265) All apps by Anshul Jain: https://appshunter.io/developer/1823688921 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*