Comparison

Scanner' vs Scanner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Scanner'

Transform your device into a portable scanner to digitize documents, receipts, photos, and more. Automatically detect and crop borders, adjust image settings, and share your scans easily via email or social media. Organize your important items with this versatile scanning tool.

Highlights
  • Scan documents, receipts, photos
  • Automated border detection and cropping
  • Manual border adjustment
  • Edit contrast, brightness, and rotation
  • Save as PDF
  • Share scans via email and social media
  • Print scans directly
Features
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Organize your paperwork, photos, recipes and everything important to you. Scan & Save, it's your portable scanner....Anytime, Anywhere! • Scan documents, receipts, photos, or everything important to you • Share your scans with whomever you want The scanner is able to correct perspective and automatically detect and crop the borders of your document. Don’t agree with the detected borders? Move them easily any direction you want and you will see that your document will be rotated to a perfectly straight image. In the preview you can edit the file name, contrast & brightness, rotate the page and choose any A paper size you would like to save it as. Share your scan by email, social media or any other way you desire. Print your scan directly from the preview mode, or save it in the gallery as a PDF. Smart Scan brings you all the features you need: • Automated scanning for borders • Scans as soon as it finds the document borders • You can manually adjust the borders right after scanning • Edit the document in the preview: change file name, adjust contrast & brightness, rotate, and choose from different page sizes • Saves your scan in a convenient gallery, in which you can select, share, delete and edit older files • Share your scan with just one tap! As always, we appreciate your feedback. Please email us at feedback@impalastudios.com with any suggestions or questions. If you are happy with this update, please let us know by rating and reviewing us in the App Store! Smart Scanner is the future of organizing your paperwork!

About

Scanner

Instantly scan multi-page documents and send them digitally when a physical scanner isn't available. Capture anything from receipts to books, with features for cropping, brightness adjustment, and saving in color or grayscale. Share via email or print directly.

Highlights
  • Scan multi-page documents
  • Capture whiteboards, receipts, business cards
  • Crop and remove unnecessary parts
  • Adjust brightness for low light
  • Save in color or grayscale
  • Share via email
  • Print via AirPrint
Features
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DocScan-Free lets you instantly scan multi-pages document and send out when there is no scanner nearby. By having it, you can scan not only documents in sight, but also whiteboards, receipts, business cards, posters, coupons, books ...etc. -Scanner work with any doc and make fit with screen size -Crop doc and remove unnecessary part -Adjust brightness if taken in low light. -Save copy two way color or grey scale -Easy to use with cam and existing Photo gallery -Share via email also print via air print -Take up to 10 pages in single doc -Create unlimited number of doc

Screenshots

Scanner'4 screens
Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Scanner' at every 2 months against Scanner's every 51 months. Scanner' also leads on review sentiment (19% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scanner' ships an update every 2 months, Scanner every 51 months. The most recent releases landed on September 4, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Scanner' versus Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanner'Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (1.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews19.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 51 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperImpala StudiosAishvarya Sadasivam

Customer experience

Scanner'

All ratings1,425 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative17.5%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive19.4%
Neutral6.5%
Negative74.2%

Scanner

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Scanner'

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Fails to recognize document borders
  • Randomly emails only a subset of scanned pages
  • Scanned files become unavailable after sending

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to scan and save multi-page documents as a single file
  • Color scanning option
  • More user-friendly interface and instructions

Scanner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Scanner'

No in-app purchases

None

Scanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scanner' free?
Scanner' is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scanner free?
Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scanner' or Scanner have ads?
Both Scanner' and Scanner show ads.
Which is updated more often, Scanner' or Scanner?
Scanner' ships an update every 2 months, and Scanner every 51 months. Most recently, Scanner' was updated on September 4, 2026 and Scanner on August 16, 2026.

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