# SmartScan AI — user reviews > 24 indexed App Store user reviews of SmartScan AI by Naveen Vijay, rated 4.40/5 from 94 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smartscan-ai/id1393471734/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smartscan-ai/id1393471734.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 74 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 10 ## Newest reviews (4 of 24) ### 2/5 — Not very useful in the real world *2023-04-02, version 1.7.1* It recognises handwriting ok, but some corrections are understandably needed. The biggest problem is that it also removes all of your formatting (returns, paragraph breaks etc.) Even if you reformat it again at the correction stage, it ignores all of that again and just dumps one big block of supersized text into a pdf which is then uneditable. The ability to change font size and retain just some simple formatting would be a game changer for this app. ### 5/5 — Saved me hours *2019-09-06, version 1.4* I was able to turn 17 full pages of cluttered writing into text Of course there were plenty of errors, but that’s understandable considering I have the handwriting of a small child. Going through and fixing the mistakes is much faster than typing it all up from scratch From what I saw, it was all free and there was nothing asking for subscriptions ### 5/5 — So far so good *2019-07-06* I’m not very busy with OCR yet but it seems a good app. ### 5/5 — Helped me a lot! *2019-06-21, version 1.4* A surprisingly good handwritten OCR. Respect to the programmers on this one! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Excessivement mauvais *2025-06-16, version 2.0* Passe plus de temps à proposer des app. inutiles qu’à afficher le résultat, qui plus est complètement « caviardé ». ChatGPT fait nettement mieux. ### 1/5 — Seems bad *2024-05-04, version 1.7.1* Asked for review before I could even figure out controls. Looking for app to translate as I write. I have to save the translation pic the. The translation? Annoying and can’t see translation in app . Will take far to much memory to be useful ### 1/5 — Mauvais *2023-12-05, version 1.7.1* Très mauvaise reconnaissance de caractère…. Résultat presque totalement inutile…. Les documents essayés n’ont pas été reconnu (10% et avec des fautes) ### 1/5 — だめでした *2022-05-14, version 1.7.1* 写真とれず、全くつかえない ### 1/5 — 使えません。 *2022-03-16, version 1.7.1* インターネット接続していないと出て使えません。 こちらiPhone SE2、iOS15.4 ### 1/5 — Unbrauchbar: nicht ein Buchstabe erkannt *2019-12-20, version 1.5.1* Sorry, aber bei zwei OCR aus Foto wo denn nicht ein richtiger Buchstabe erkannt! ### 1/5 — Hopeless *2019-09-09, version 1.4* Can’t recognize anything... ### 1/5 — Ne fonctione pas. *2019-03-14, version 1.4* Ne reconnait pas mon écriture et finit par buguer prétextant de ne plus être connecter alors que la ligne est parfaite ### 1/5 — False advertising *2019-02-14, version 1.3.1* You can’t use the handwriting OCR without signing up for “free trials” to other things? Riggghhhhttt excuse me while I delete your app. ### 1/5 — Klappt nicht *2019-01-23, version 1.3.1* Keim Beispiel hat funktioniert, noch nicht mal ein gedruckter text, schade. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — User friendly app *2025-12-26, version 3.0* Very useful app, user friendly ### 5/5 — SmartWork *2025-12-26, version 3.0* Really helpful and time saving ### 5/5 — Made my work life easy *2025-11-30, version 3.0* The app is very user friendly and super simple to use . The integrated AI feature really helped in making my work easy . ### 5/5 — The best scanning app *2025-11-10, version 3.0* I have been using this app for sometime now and it just works great. This app just made my work life way easier ### 5/5 — Great update with AI features *2025-10-31, version 3.0* The latest update with the AI capabilities is very friendly and easy to use ### 5/5 — Excellent OCR *2024-12-16, version 2.0* This is a beautifully simple app that works really well. I receive a card every year from an old friend who always writes in French. I could read the French except that his handwriting is largely illegible. I tried many apps in the app store. Only two others had OCR capabilities as good as this one and they were both expensive subscription models. I am perfectly willing to pay but, as I probably only use it once a year, it has to be reasonable. This app doing just what I wanted and being free to use was just a bonus. ### 5/5 — Nice. *2021-11-04, version 1.7.1* I have to write a bit nicer but I needed that incentive anyway! I’m enrolled in University of Metaphysics and I share the content to email and move my written exam answers to the online exam documents. ### 5/5 — Really Impressive *2021-10-17, version 1.7.1* Maybe this app will become an expensive app one day. It will probably still be worth it, but for now, being free, it’s too good to be true! ### 5/5 — Satisfait *2021-09-26, version 1.7.1* Super ### 5/5 — Love the app! *2020-04-22, version 1.5.1* High fidelity reproduction from handwriting to text saves me so much time and effort! Much better at this than other apps that I tried, requiring much lighter editing. Love that I can then export the PDF. All this free, unlike other apps. Truly, incredibly grateful for this app!!! Please continue this and never stop! --- *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 2026-06-08.*