Comparison

ScanX vs Noted Note

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

Head to head
About

ScanX

This app transforms your mobile device into a powerful document scanner. It captures documents, receipts, and notes, converting them into high-quality PDFs or JPGs. Advanced OCR technology extracts text for editing and sharing across multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Automatic document detection
  • Scan to PDF or JPG
  • OCR text extraction
  • Multi-language OCR support
  • Share documents and text
  • Adjust scan brightness and contrast
Features
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ScanX is a mobile phone scanner app for your Printed and Handwritten Documents, Receipts, Notes, Invoices, Business Cards, Certificates, Scribbled Notes, Bills, Contract, Memos, Script, Letters, Whiteboard Brain Storming Sessions etc. FEATURES: * Automatic document detection and scanning * Scans to high quality PDF or JPG images * Enhance scans by applying different filters * Adjust the scanned document’s brightness, contrast and saturations * PDF preview within the app * Easily share documents in PDF or JPG format via social media or email attachment * Edit the extracted text using OCR feature in scanned documents in 6 different languages * OCR is supported for following languages: English, Español, Français, العربية, Hindi, Português * Listen the extracted texts or save it for future use * Share extracted texts using email, sms or social media Premium Subscription Services: 1. Edit the extracted text using OCR feature in scanned documents in 6 different languages 2. OCR is supported for following languages: English, Español, Français, العربية, Hindi, Português 3. Listen the extracted texts or save it for future use 4. Share extracted texts using email, sms or social media 5. PDF footers are removed. Payment models for Premium Subscription: - 0.99 USD/Month - 9.99 USD/Year Please note that the subscription is automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you choose to cancel the subscription. The free version is an ad-supported version and scanned documents are generated with watermark. We'd love to hear your feedback: scanx@renzym.com

About

Noted Note

This app simulates a physical notebook for your iPhone, allowing you to type notes that appear in various handwriting styles. You can also add doodles, photos, and customize paper types and pen styles. Notes are organized chronologically and are searchable.

Highlights
  • Handwritten text simulation
  • Customizable pen and paper styles
  • Doodle and photo integration
  • Scratch-out deletion effect
  • Chronological note organization
  • Searchable notes
  • iPhone Duo specific features
Features
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noted. is a little paper notebook for your iPhone. Type, and your words appear in handwriting on paper with a bit of grain. No folders to manage, no toolbars to learn. Just a page and a pen. WRITING • Four hands: scrawl, the house hand, which inks itself stroke by stroke as you type, plus marker, looseleaf and rafikki • Four pens: ballpoint, marker, fountain and pencil • Change the hand or pen for a selection, or for just what you type next; settings picks the hand new notes start in • Plain, lined, squared or dotted paper, chosen note by note CROSSING OUT • Delete more than a few letters and they are scratched out in ink instead of vanishing; a quick typo fix still simply deletes • Keep the scratch-out, or let it go DOODLES AND PHOTOS • Draw with your finger and put the doodle on the page • Add photos from your library: as the full photo, as a cutout with the background removed, as a cutout with a white border, or held on with a binder clip or a paper clip • Move doodles and photos around the page YOUR NOTES • Every note on one wall, most recently written first, grouped by day • Search what your notes say (crossed-out words are left out) • Hold a note to crumple it up PAPERS AND SOUNDS • Cream paper by day and charcoal at night, following your iPhone • Five more papers: charcoal, spring, terracotta, violet and sea • Soft pencil sounds when you cross out, crumple a note, or pick a paper, pen or hand, with a loudness control, or turn them off ON IPHONE DUO • Closed, the outside screen is your notebook's cover, with windows cut through it to your latest page • Open it, and your notes become a book: turn the pages, with a soft page-turn sound • Tap a page and write right on it with the keyboard • A handwritten index of your notes, with dates • Eight covers: bottle green, charcoal, ink navy, rust, burgundy, kraft, and two cloth covers, breakfast and horses • Lined, squared, dotted or plain pages; blue, black or sepia ink; turn the pages or scroll • Warm, faded paper after dark LANGUAGES • noted. speaks English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese • The handwriting writes all of them. The four hands and the self-inking scrawl are for the Latin alphabet; Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese each have a handwriting face of their own FREE, AND THE WHOLE DRAWER Free to use, with no time limit: the scrawl, the ballpoint, cream paper (charcoal at night), scratch-outs, doodles, photos, search, sounds and the whole iPhone Duo notebook. One optional purchase, the whole drawer, adds: • the five more papers • every pen: marker, fountain and pencil • every hand: marker, looseleaf and rafikki • iCloud sync, so your notes follow you to your other iPhones One payment, kept forever. No subscription. Restore it any time from the purchase page. PRIVATE Notes stay on your device or in your own iCloud. Apple handles purchases; RevenueCat receives receipts and app/device IDs for validation and purchase statistics. No advertising tracking or data sales. Privacy Policy: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Privacy-Policy-3a93971e7add8199a7e4d91c688d6069 Terms of Use: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Noted-Note-Terms-of-Use-3a93971e7add80428a0fdaad90470a72 Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ScanX4 screens
Noted Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

ScanX and Noted Note both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ScanX's written reviews are positive against 50% of Noted Note's. ScanX also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). Noted Note's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. ScanX sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Noted Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for ScanX against 4.0 for Noted Note. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of ScanX's written reviews are positive against 50% of Noted Note's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScanX ships an update fortnightly, Noted Note every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ScanX versus Noted Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanXNoted Note
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (8 ratings) — better4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB120 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYasir JavedJerry Munyoka Nkongolo

Customer experience

ScanX

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Noted Note

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ScanX

Subscriptions2
  • ScanX Pro$0.991 Month
  • ScanX Pro$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Noted Note

One-time1
  • the whole drawer$9.99

Questions

Is ScanX free?
ScanX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Noted Note free?
Noted Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ScanX or Noted Note?
ScanX is rated higher. ScanX averages 4.1 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Noted Note averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ScanX or Noted Note have ads?
Neither ScanX nor Noted Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ScanX or Noted Note?
ScanX ships an update fortnightly, and Noted Note every 4 days. Most recently, ScanX was updated on November 6, 2026 and Noted Note on November 13, 2026.

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