Comparison

Notebloc Scanner vs 4i Author

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

Head to head
About

Notebloc Scanner

Digitize your documents and notes with this free scanner app. Easily convert them to PDF or JPG, extract text using OCR, and organize your scans. Perfect for students, professionals, and artists.

Highlights
  • Scan documents to PDF or JPG
  • Unlimited document creation
  • Batch scanning (multiple pages)
  • Text extraction (OCR)
  • Scan without watermarks
  • Edit and merge documents
Features
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Scan documents for free with Notebloc Scanner, the best free document scanner. Use it to scan fast your documents and turn them to PDF or JPG. You can also save and share notes, art, receipts, drawings, etc. It is the preferred scanner app among students and the educational community, artists and widely used by professionals from all fields. Notebloc Scanner App is one of the best and most recommended free scanner apps for your iPhone or iPad. It is the only free scanner offering unlimited usage. Notebloc Scanner App offers 100% free editing tools for PDF documents that are not included in the free version in the other scanner apps. For example: unlimited document creation, multiple pages scan (batch scanning), text extraction (extract text from image using our OCR), share, merge and copy documents. These are the main functionalities of the best free scanner in the App Store: - Scan free documents such as drawings, sketches, images, photos, receipts or invoices. It is very useful for scanning notes since they will become legible and clear: Notebloc: PDF scanner automatically corrects perspective and light conditions in your scanned documents. - This free scanner will allow you to scan several pages consecutively (Batch Scanning). - You can scan documents without watermarks. - With Notebloc Scanner App you can cut and edit images to save them and convert them to PDF. - Add pages to a document is another of the features that you can perform with this intuitive scanning app. - Convert PDF from scanned images and modify the size of the PDFs. -Import images from your devide and convert them to PDF will be very easy and fast with Notebloc PDF scanner. -Notebloc PDF scanner also allows you to extract of text from image, through OCR in English and 15 other languages. Use the feature to extract text from an image and copy, edit or share it. In addition to scanning free documents, Notebloc Free Document Scanner offers you very useful tools for you to have your notes well organized and structured. The document scanner Notebloc will be useful: - Students: With the free scanner, scan your notes and also notes from your teachers. Organize them according to your subjects, and so you will have them organized to study for your exams and be able to review your notes from where you are. - Teachers: Notebloc PDF scanner is a very useful tool to create PDF from notes or photocopies that you want to share with your students. You can use this free scanner to send PDFs for your students. - Professionals: Notebloc Scanner helps you to keep your invoices safe, together with other important documents relative to your activity. Scan to PDF and easily arrange all your documents. Share them with your manager or peers by email directly from your PDF scanner. - Artists: The Notebloc free scanner is your perfect ally if you want to digitize your art and share it online or keep it in your portfolio. You can scan your drawings to edit them. Scanning documents for free has never been so fast and easy! About Notebloc Scanner App: Notebloc is a technology and innovation company from Spain. In order to unite the analog and digital world, in 2016 we developed Notebloc Scanner. Download the best free document scanner. Converting documents to PDF had never been so simple! Terms of service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

4i Author

Features
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Story Writer writes long fiction with you, one prompt at a time. You say what happens next; it writes the chapter — and it keeps writing, chapter after chapter, without losing track of who your characters are or what has already happened. HOW IT WORKS Set up a story with a background and a style guide. Past tense, close third, no em-dashes — whatever you want held to. Both are sent with every turn, so a change is felt from the next prompt onwards. Then write a prompt. The chapter arrives a paragraph at a time as it is written, so you can read it as it lands or put the phone down and come back to it finished. WHILE IT IS WRITING • Steer — add an instruction to the turn already running. • Stop — everything written so far is kept. • Queue — write your next prompts without waiting. They run in the order you put them in, you can reorder them, and nothing is ever discarded on your behalf. KEEPING A LONG STORY STRAIGHT • Facts — names, places and what is already true, carried into every turn. • Review — a pass that reads the whole story and reports contradictions in names, timeline and detail, then rewrites the parts you approve. • Chapters — jump anywhere in the story, with a running word count. ALSO • Attach photos to a prompt and have them placed in the story. • Brainstorm — give it a handful of words and it sketches three ways in. • Share the whole story as a text file whenever you want it out of the app. • A warm paper theme and a dark one, or follow the system. WHAT IT COSTS Five turns every day are free. After that a turn costs 0.001 credits and a whole-story review costs 0.02, so the smallest credit pack — 3.5 credits, about 3,500 turns — is probably enough for at least ten full stories of fifty chapters each, including the reviews and rewrites along the way. Credits never expire and there is no subscription. They belong to your 4i account rather than to this app, so they also work in the other 4i apps, and credits bought elsewhere are already here. THE ACCOUNT The writing runs on 4i's servers, so a free 4i account is needed and your stories live on it.

Screenshots

Notebloc Scanner4 screens
4i Author4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: 4i Author at none against Notebloc Scanner's shown. On price, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Notebloc Scanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and 4i Author sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Notebloc Scanner versus 4i Author: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotebloc Scanner4i Author
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.3K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB37 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperNotebloc Scanner SCPNiels Brinch

Bugs and requests

Notebloc Scanner

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when trying to open certain documents
  • Unable to save or share scanned files
  • Camera not working or not accessible in the app
  • Unexpected language changes in the user interface

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to import photos from device gallery
  • Improve file organization with folder support
  • Provide more export options (e.g. JPG, PNG)
  • Implement cloud sync and cross-device access
  • Add password protection or encryption for sensitive documents

4i Author

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Notebloc Scanner

Subscriptions2
  • PRO - Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
  • Pro - annual subscription$8.491 Year
One-time1
  • Notebloc Pro: Lifetime$24.99
3 purchases

4i Author

One-time3
  • 3.5 credits$4.99
  • 12 credits$14.99
  • 26 credits$29.99

Questions

Is Notebloc Scanner free?
Notebloc Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 4i Author free?
4i Author is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notebloc Scanner or 4i Author have ads?
Notebloc Scanner shows ads; 4i Author does not.

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