Comparison

Paperlogix vs Sternzy

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

Head to head
About

Paperlogix

Capture high-quality scans of documents and receipts with automatic cropping and perspective correction. Organize your files using folders and tags, and leverage powerful automation features for sorting and archiving. Pro features include OCR, cloud uploads, and customizable themes.

Highlights
  • Automatic document edge detection
  • Skew and perspective correction
  • Folder and tag organization
  • Text recognition (OCR)
  • Cloud service integration
  • Workflow automation
  • Multi-page scanning
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Get organized with Paperlogix Document Scanner. Capture beautiful, high quality scans of your receipts and documents. Easily organize your scans with folders, tags, and convenient drag and drop. Upgrade to Paperlogix Pro to enable automation, text recognition (OCR), cloud upload, capture presets, customizable color themes, and more. Powerful automation workflows and rules let you automatically sort, organize, and archive your scans. Capture Scans with Your Camera • Automatic cropping detects document edges • Correction for skew and perspective distortion • Background whitening for clean, paper-white scans • Fine tune camera exposure • Scan using any of your device's back cameras • Scan in color, grayscale, or black & white • Scan multi-page documents • Snap scans automatically with Auto Capture • Easily change scanning configuration with Capture Presets • Edit and create your own Capture Presets (Pro) Organize Scans • Organize with nested folders (Basic or Pro) • Create tags to quickly access your documents or folders (Basic or Pro) • Move or tag items with iOS drag and drop View and Edit Scans • Browse multi-page scans • Adjust colors, brightness, contrast, and rotation • Whiten backgrounds • Precision crop tool with magnifier • Instantly revert back to your original camera images • Peek into scans with 3D or Haptic Touch • Merge scans Navigate • Instantly access recent documents • Instantly access tagged items and favorites • Find documents and folders with pull down search bar Text Recognition (Pro) • Convert documents to selectable text • Built-in text recognition executes directly on your device Cloud Services (Pro) • Share to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Evernote, or OneDrive • Upload to cloud services from workflows and rules Automation (Pro) • Create workflows to automate common actions such as renaming, moving, or uploading documents • Create rules to perform actions automatically • Automatic text recognition for processing text rules • View the status of all your automation actions • Export and Import your workflows and rules Automation Rules (Pro) • Perform actions when documents contain specific text • Perform actions when documents are created • Perform actions when documents are added to a folder • Perform actions when documents are tagged Automation Actions (Pro) • Rename document • Move to folder • Tag document • Recognize Text • Upload to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Evernote, or OneDrive cloud services • Save to Photos • Compose Email • Compose Message Share Your Scans • Export scans as JPEG images • Export scans as PDF documents (Basic or Pro) • Encrypt exported PDF documents (Basic or Pro) Color Themes • Support for dark mode • Customizable color themes (Basic or Pro)

About

Sternzy

Features
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DocScan turns your iPhone into a fast, private document scanner — and a whole lot more. Scan paper, import PDFs and photos, or capture a recipe or article straight from the web, then organize everything into tidy folders you can search, annotate, and share. Everything happens on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking. SCAN & IMPORT • Scan crisp, auto-cropped pages with the camera — as many as you like per document. • Import from your Photos, your Files (images, PDFs, even Word documents), or a web link. • Everything lands in one review screen, so you can mix scans and imports into a single document. CAPTURE FROM THE WEB • Paste any link and DocScan captures the page in a clean, ad-free "reader" view — split into tidy 8.5×11 pages with the source link right on top. • Save recipes and posts from Instagram and Facebook — the photo and the full caption come through. • Turn on "Also grab linked pages" to follow a page's links one level deep, with a live progress bar (and a Stop button) and an index of every link at the end. • Every web capture keeps a clickable Source link, so you can always jump back to the original. REVIEW BEFORE YOU SAVE • Tap any page to view it full-screen — pinch to zoom right where your fingers are, swipe between pages, and delete a bad scan on the spot. • Reorder pages by dragging. • DocScan even suggests a document name from the biggest heading on the page. ORGANIZE & FIND • File documents into nested, color-coded folders. Rename, move, recolor, or delete anytime. • Pinch to switch between a clean list and a grid — from compact rows up to one big page per tile. • Full-text search reads the text inside your scans (on-device OCR), so you can find a document by name or by words written inside it. • Add private notes to a whole document or a single page — kept in your backups, never printed or exported. EDIT & ANNOTATE • Rotate, crop, and apply filters to any page. • Mark up pages with drawing, text, lines, arrows, shapes, and highlights. EXPORT & SHARE • Export as PDF (with a searchable text layer), a password-protected PDF, a Word document with recognized text, or images. • Print natively, or share anywhere with the standard share sheet. PRIVATE & SECURE • Everything stays on your device — nothing is uploaded to us. Data Not Collected. • Lock DocScan behind Face ID or your passcode. • Back up to a portable file or your own iCloud, and restore on a new device. Turn on Auto Back Up to save whenever you leave the app. FREE, WITH NO ADS DocScan is completely free — no ads, no subscriptions. If it saves you time, an optional tip helps keep it that way, but it never unlocks anything; the whole app is yours. Scan a document — or paste a link — in seconds. — — Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you.

Screenshots

Paperlogix4 screens
Sternzy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sternzy at weekly against Paperlogix's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Paperlogix sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Sternzy sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paperlogix ships an update every 3 months, Sternzy weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Paperlogix versus Sternzy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaperlogixSternzy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (68 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings68 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOnloft Software LLCDavid Stern

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Paperlogix

One-time3
  • Upgrade from Basic to Pro$1.99
  • Paperlogix Basic Upgrade$2.99
  • Paperlogix Pro Upgrade$4.99
4 purchases

Sternzy

One-time4
  • $0.99 Coffee Tip$0.99
  • $1.99 Coffee Tip$1.99
  • $4.99 Coffee Tip$4.99
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  • $9.99 Coffee Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Paperlogix free?
Paperlogix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sternzy free?
Sternzy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Paperlogix or Sternzy have ads?
Neither Paperlogix nor Sternzy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paperlogix or Sternzy?
Paperlogix ships an update every 3 months, and Sternzy weekly. Most recently, Paperlogix was updated on October 7, 2026 and Sternzy on October 1, 2026.

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