Scanner' vs PDF Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
PDF Scanner
Instantly scan multi-page documents, receipts, business cards, and more using your device's camera. Easily crop, adjust brightness, and save scans in color or grayscale. Share your documents via email or print them wirelessly.
- Scan multi-page documents
- Crop and adjust brightness
- Save in color or grayscale
- Share via email
- Print via AirPrint
- Create unlimited documents
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PDF Scanner at 5.0 against Scanner''s 4.2. Scanner''s advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 52 months) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PDF Scanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scanner' has 1.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 19% of Scanner''s written reviews are positive against 10% of PDF Scanner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Scanner' ships an update every 2 months, PDF Scanner every 52 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scanner' | PDF Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.4% of reviews — better | 10.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 52 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Impala Studios | Aishvarya Sadasivam |
Customer experience
Scanner'
PDF Scanner
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
PDF Scanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Scanner'
No in-app purchases
PDF Scanner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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