Start.me vs Ray Scan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Start.me
Organize your online life by saving and accessing bookmarks, news feeds, notes, and to-do lists. Customize your homepage with widgets and share it with others. This tool helps you save time and create a personalized hub for everything you need online.
- Bookmark saving and access
- Customizable homepage widgets
- RSS news feeds
- Note-taking
- To-do lists
- Broken link checker
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With start.me you can quickly save and access bookmarks to everything you love online. And with many other widgets or features to choose from, you can make your homepage a hub you’ll want to share with your friends, colleagues, or students. start.me goes beyond bookmarking, with features like: - News (RSS) feeds - Notes - To-do lists - Google Analytics & Charts - Broken link checker - Beautiful backgrounds and colors to choose from. start.me is easily the most versatile, complete, and reliable bookmark manager on the market. Creating a free account takes less than a minute. Saving time online has never been easier.
Ray Scan
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Point your camera at anything worth keeping: a document, an ID, a receipt, a whiteboard. Ray Scan turns it into a clean, corrected scan in seconds, with every scan type getting its own dedicated treatment instead of one generic filter stretched to cover everything. SCAN ANYTHING, CORRECTLY • Automatic edge detection and perspective correction on every capture • Purpose-built modes for Documents, ID Cards, Passports, Business Cards, Receipts, Whiteboards, and Book Pages • Filters tuned to what you're scanning: tone-neutral shadow removal for cards, background whitening for paper, local-contrast sharpening and auto-straightening for receipts, instead of one setting stretched over everything • Multi-page capture in a single continuous session • Import existing photos or PDFs straight into your library, no manual sorting required ORGANIZE WITHOUT THE BUSYWORK (Ray Scan Pro) • AI reads every new scan, extracts the text, identifies what it is, and suggests tags, so search actually works • Automatic file naming and folder filing based on what's actually on the page • Full-text OCR search across your entire library DO MORE WITH WHAT YOU SCAN • Merge multiple scans into one document • Password-lock and compress PDFs before you share them • Add a reusable signature to any document • Watermark pages • Roll analyzed receipts up into a single expense report CSV • Translate scanned text, on the image itself or as plain text (Ray Scan Pro) • Export to PDF, TXT, or Word (DOCX) • Built-in QR code scanner and generator YOUR LIBRARY, EVERYWHERE • Cloud sync across every device with 5GB of storage (Ray Scan Pro) • Tag, file into folders, and search across everything you've scanned • App Lock with Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode Ray Scan works fully offline for everyday scanning, no account required. Sign in only when you want your library to follow you across devices. RAY SCAN PRO Ray Scan Pro unlocks AI-powered reading, naming and filing, translation, cloud sync, and more, offered as an auto-renewing Monthly or Annual subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase for core scanning features. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or canceled anytime in your Apple ID account settings. See our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy at rayscan.app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Start.me at none against Ray Scan's 3. Start.me also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Ray Scan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Start.me asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Start.me | Ray Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 51.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | start.me | Arth Labs Inc. |
In-app purchases
Start.me
No in-app purchases
Ray Scan
- Ray Scan Pro - Monthly$7.991 Month
- Ray Scan Pro - Annual$39.991 Year
- Ray Scan Pro - Lifetime$79.99









