Überblick vs Do Scan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Überblick
Streamline internal team communication to enhance service quality and save valuable time. This app offers an easy, fast, and transparent way for teams to connect and collaborate.
- Internal communication
- Service quality improvement
- Time saving
- Easy to use
- Fast communication
- Transparent updates
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Überblick - the solution for internal communication to improve service quality and save time. Easy. Fast. Transparent.
Do Scan
Transform paper documents into searchable PDFs with advanced OCR. Sign, edit, merge, and convert files directly on your device. Offers robust privacy with no account or subscription required.
- Automatic edge detection and perspective correction
- OCR and searchable PDFs
- Signature and markup tools
- PDF merging and conversion
- Siri and Spotlight integration
- Private by design, no account needed
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Turn paper into crisp, searchable PDFs in seconds, then sign, fill, redact, merge and convert them, all on your iPhone or iPad. No account. No subscription. No tracking. Point your camera at a contract, a receipt, a form or a page from your favorite book. Do Scan finds the edges, straightens the page and reads the text, so you can find any document later by a word inside it. Something private on the page? Redact it, and it's really gone. SCAN • Automatic edge detection and perspective correction • Scan a whole stack of pages in one go • Color, Grayscale and Black & White filters you can change anytime • Smart titles suggested from the first page OCR AND SEARCH • Text recognition on every page, with automatic language detection • Searchable PDFs: select, copy and find text • Search your whole library by the words inside your documents SIRI, SPOTLIGHT AND SHORTCUTS • Ask Siri to open or search your documents • Find documents in Spotlight by name, or by the text inside them • Use Do Scan actions in Shortcuts • Off until you turn it on, and you choose what's indexed. Locked PDFs are never indexed SIGN AND MARK UP • Save your signature and place it on any page, then move, resize and rotate it with your fingers • Sign in black, blue, red or white • Highlight, draw and write with Apple Pencil or your finger • Add typed text boxes • Fill in PDF forms REDACT FOR REAL • Black out account numbers, addresses, names, anything you'd rather not share • Drag a box over it and it's removed from the PDF, not just hidden under a black bar • Nothing left to copy, search or uncover: the text and image underneath are deleted • Pages keep their size and layout, and everything else stays sharp and searchable PDF TOOLS • Merge documents into one PDF • Reorder, rotate, crop and delete pages • Reduce file size for email • Lock PDFs with a password • Convert to PDF/A for archiving • Export pages as JPEG or PNG CONVERT TO PDF • Word (.doc, .docx) • PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) • Photos: pick several, then merge them or keep them separate • RTF, TXT and HTML STAY ORGANIZED • One + button in your library to scan, add photos or open files • Collections, like photo albums: one document can be in several • Favorites for what you use most • Recently Deleted keeps documents for 30 days • Built for iPad, with a sidebar and Apple Pencil support • Ready for iPhone Duo, closed or unfolded • Light and Dark Mode, adjustable interface size PRIVATE BY DESIGN No login, no analytics and no tracking. Do Scan has no server of its own. If you turn on Siri & Spotlight, iOS can use your indexed documents to answer Siri, and Siri may use Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Built entirely on Apple's frameworks, with no third-party code. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Überblick at Free against Do Scan's $14.99. Do Scan's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On ads, 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
Überblick is free to download; Do Scan costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Überblick ships an update every 2 months, Do Scan weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Überblick | Do Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bonpland Software GmbH | Ammar Ahmad |
Customer experience
Überblick
Do Scan
In-app purchases
Überblick
No in-app purchases
Do Scan
No in-app purchases









