Scanner' vs Scannable
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!
Scannable
This app allows you to scan documents and extract text using optical character recognition (OCR). Save textbooks, letters, and receipts as digital data. Supports English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
- Document scanning
- Image to text conversion (OCR)
- Save digital data
- Supports English, Japanese, Chinese
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Scannable - Mobile Scanner App. Free Scanning App / Document Scan / OCR / Photo Scan Simple operation, image to text analysis! You can save textbooks, letters, and receipts as digital data. English and Japanese, Chinese-Simplified are supported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scannable at every 11 days against Scanner''s every 2 months. Scanner''s advantage is review sentiment (19% vs 0%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Scanner' against 4.1 for Scannable. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.4K and 513 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 19% of Scanner''s written reviews are positive against 0% of Scannable's.
Scanner' ships an update every 2 months, Scannable every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scanner' | Scannable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.4K ratings) — better | 4.1 (513 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 19.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 513 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Impala Studios | Hiroya Hinomori |
Customer experience
Scanner'
Scannable
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
Scannable
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Scanner'
No in-app purchases
Scannable
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Scanner' free?
Is Scannable free?
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Do Scanner' or Scannable have ads?
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