Scan Master vs PDFCamera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scan Master
This app allows you to scan documents into high-quality PDFs or images. It offers features for file transfer, conversion of various file types to PDF, and a robust PDF reader. You can easily share, print, or save your scanned documents for future use.
- Scan documents to PDF/image
- Optimize scan quality
- File transfer via USB/WIFI
- Convert various file types to PDF
- Advanced PDF reader
- Document viewer for multiple formats
- Email and print documents
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Scan Master is the advanced scanner app that scan document into clean PDF/image and send as email, print or save for future use. PDF Scanner: - Optimise scan quality by cropping and make the texts and graphics look sharp and clear. - Scan Master is useful to scan bill, invoice, contract, bill, business card, certificate, letter, identity documents. File Transfer: - Use iTunes file sharing to transfer files directly to your device via USB cable and WIFI - Open in File feature to open the document in different app like Numbers, Pages, iBooks, Kindle - Import PDF from other apps. - Import Image files from other apps. - Sorting files based on date, size and name PDF Converter: - Convert image, documents (MS Office, iWorks and the most common file types) to PDF - Build in web browser and convert web pages to PDFs for offline reading on the iPhone or iPad PDF Reader: - Advances PDF reader to read in all orientations - Supports Encrypted (password protected) PDFs - PDF links to open URL in browser directly - Supports PDFs with rotated pages Document Viewer: - Document Viewer supports PDF, HTML, TXT, RTF, JPG, PNG, GIF, MS Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) and Apple iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) files, etc - Print documents from Doc Scanner easily - Email files to Your Friends or Colleagues directly from My PDF Doc - Zoom PDFs and other documents
PDFCamera
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PDFCamera is a simple scanner app for taking pictures with camera and exporting to PDF. The export procedure is very easy. 1. Shoot the document with the camera (Automatically recognize the shape of the document). 2. Adjust the area to be cropped from the taken picture. 3. If necessary rotate also. 4. Repeat 1 to 3 for the number of pages, finally specify the image quality and export it as PDF. - Exported PDF can be confirmed from the standard File.app. - It is also possible to open it with another apps after exporting. - There is no limit on the number of pages. - Marks such as watermark are not inserted in the exported PDF.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PDFCamera at none against Scan Master's 1. Scan Master's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Scan Master sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PDFCamera asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scan Master ships an update every 2 months, PDFCamera every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scan Master | PDFCamera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GURUPRITSINGH SAINI | sorakaze Inc. |
In-app purchases
Scan Master
- Remove Advertisements$1.99
PDFCamera
No in-app purchases









