Comparison

Paper Shopping List vs DocUpick

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

Head to head
About

Paper Shopping List

Capture your handwritten shopping lists by taking a photo, then digitally mark off items with your finger. This app offers a simple yet powerful way to manage your grocery needs, with features like list merging and sharing.

Highlights
  • Photo capture of handwritten lists
  • Digital item marking with finger
  • Image cropping and perspective correction
  • Multiple shopping list management
  • List merging and sharing
  • Copy/paste text or pictures
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Take photo of your shopping list written on a paper and then cross out the items on your iPhone by finger. Simple and powerful! Features: - Designed to be used with one hand - Crop image & perspective correction¹ - Tap to zoom & push to scroll¹ - Take photo, import photo from Photos - Join several lists to one - Copy & paste a text or picture from e-mail or text message - Cross out the items by finger - Choose draw color¹ - Multiple shopping lists - Reuse an existing shopping list - Share list by message, e-mail, … - Shake to undelete the list - No sign-in, no cloud ¹ Full version feature Icons by icons8.com.

About

DocUpick

Features
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DocUpick turns paper into smart notes you can find, read, summarize and reuse — all on your iPhone or iPad, with no account and nothing uploaded. NEW IN 4.0 • Import from Files: bring in PDFs and images, or share them to DocUpick from any app. PDFs that already contain text keep it exactly; scanned PDFs and photos are read on-device. • Tables to spreadsheet: DocUpick finds tables on your pages and shows them as a grid. Copy the cells straight into your spreadsheet app, or share a CSV file. • Read Aloud: listen to any document sentence by sentence, with the current sentence highlighted. Tap a sentence to jump there and set the speed you like. • Smart summary: on iPhones and iPads with Apple Intelligence, DocUpick writes a short summary, key points and a suggested title on-device. On other devices it picks the key lines from your document and pulls out merchant, total and date from receipts and invoices. Every summary says how it was made. • Search from the Home Screen: scanned text, titles, tags and folders show up in Spotlight, and a tap opens the note. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Scan a document with DocUpick", find documents by their text, or pass a document's text to other actions. Quick actions on the app icon start a scan, an import or a search. • App Lock: require Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode to open DocUpick, and hide its contents in the app switcher. • Add to Calendar: dates found in a document open a pre-filled event you can review and save. • Backup & Restore: save your whole library — notes, page images, folders and tags — as one file in Files, iCloud Drive or on a computer. Restoring adds what's missing and never overwrites anything. SCAN ANYTHING WITH TEXT Receipts, invoices, letters, forms, business cards, whiteboards and handwritten notes. Multi-page scanning with edge detection and perspective correction, or import from Photos and Files. Text recognition runs on-device in the languages you choose. SMART NOTES Every scan gets its recognized text, a detected document type, and tap-to-act phone numbers, emails, links, addresses and dates. Receipts and invoices show merchant, total and date. Business cards become a shareable contact card. QR codes and barcodes are detected too. FIND IT FAST Ranked full-text search across titles, recognized text, tags and folders, with the matching words highlighted. Folders with color and icon, tags, pins, filters and sort options. SHARE IT YOUR WAY Image PDFs, searchable PDFs with a hidden text layer, text-only PDFs, adjustable size and watermark, automatic file names from the document's content, CSV export of your library, and Packet Studio for ordered multi-document PDF packets with a cover and contents page. KEEP IT TIDY Page filters, rotation and reordering, merging notes, expiry dates with reminders, an Insights view of your library and a review queue for scans that need attention. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no servers. Your documents stay in DocUpick on your device until you choose to share or back them up. iPhone and iPad. Works offline. Apple Intelligence summaries require a supported device with Apple Intelligence turned on; everything else works on every supported device.

Screenshots

Paper Shopping List1 screens
DocUpick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Paper Shopping List at Free against DocUpick's $3.99. Paper Shopping List also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). DocUpick's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On ads and device support 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

Paper Shopping List is free to download; DocUpick costs $3.99 up front. Paper Shopping List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DocUpick asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paper Shopping List ships an update every 2 months, DocUpick every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Paper Shopping List versus DocUpick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaper Shopping ListDocUpick
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating3.7 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel PesekRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Paper Shopping List

One-time1
  • Full version$1.99
None

DocUpick

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paper Shopping List free?
Paper Shopping List is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DocUpick free?
DocUpick costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Paper Shopping List or DocUpick have ads?
Neither Paper Shopping List nor DocUpick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paper Shopping List or DocUpick?
Paper Shopping List ships an update every 2 months, and DocUpick every 4 days. Most recently, Paper Shopping List was updated on November 2, 2026 and DocUpick on November 5, 2026.

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