Text scanning King vs Safe Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text scanning King
This app is a powerful tool for extracting text from images and documents. It offers accurate recognition for multiple languages, batch processing, and translation capabilities. Users can easily edit, sort, and export scanned content into various formats.
- Image and text scanning recognition
- Batch image recognition
- Multi-language recognition and translation
- Intelligent text sorting and export
- Scan various document types
- Document search by title/content
- Scanning result proofreading
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Text scanning king, an all-around image and text scanning and recognition artifact, can accurately identify 12 common languages, support any image / document / PDF / Certificate / bill / business card scanning and recognition, and secondary editing / translation / export of scanning results! ----"Character scanning King features"---- [Master of taking words from mobile phone pictures] image and text scanning recognition, with an accurate recognition rate of 99% +! [batch image recognition function] batch image recognition processing, more simple and efficient!!! [foreign language learning and translation artifact] it can recognize 19 languages, such as "China, English, Japan, Korea and Thailand", and the translation language has supported 104 national languages. [intelligent text sorting and export] intelligent segmentation of scanning results, one key translation / export of TXT / pdf [universal text scanning recognition] quickly identify pictures / documents / PDF / ID card / bank card / bills, etc [quick search document] search documents by title / content / type / time! [scanning result image text proofreading] intelligent image text proofreading, quickly find out the possible 1% scanning delay! ----"Suggestions for use"---- To make sure you get a clear scan, when taking pictures: *Sufficient light, avoid shaking as much as possible *Try to fill the screen with pictures
Safe Scanner
This app uses advanced local technology to efficiently recognize text from images. It offers a simple workflow: capture, recognize, correct, and translate, all offline for enhanced privacy. The focus is on providing a straightforward, free tool for users.
- Offline text recognition
- Image to text conversion
- Text correction
- Translation
- Privacy-focused
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Private OCR Scanner turns photos, receipts, invoices, contracts, lecture notes, and documents into editable text with an offline-first workflow. OCR is designed to run on your iPhone or iPad with no cloud OCR fallback. Recognize, edit, copy, share, export, and save local history while keeping sensitive work on device. Made for finance teams, office work, students, researchers, and anyone who handles private text. Use it for invoices, receipts, contracts, notes, forms, study materials, and long documents. Download language packs for offline recognition across major scripts and languages. One-time purchase. No subscription, no recurring fees, and no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Safe Scanner at 5.0 against Text scanning King's 4.5. Safe Scanner also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Text scanning King's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Text scanning King sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Safe Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Safe Scanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 52 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Text scanning King's written reviews are positive against 97% of Safe Scanner's.
Text scanning King ships an update every 6 days, Safe Scanner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text scanning King | Safe Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (52 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.3% of reviews | 97.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 52 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 280 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 植敏 白 | 洪霞 刘 |
Customer experience
Text scanning King
Safe Scanner
Bugs and requests
Text scanning King
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Safe Scanner
Reported bugs
2 issues- Images become blurry after loading
- App not working
Requested features
1 request- Permanent free usage
In-app purchases
Text scanning King
- VIP会员$1.99
Safe Scanner
- 永久解锁$2.99
