Safe Scanner vs Tessaract
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Tessaract
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The Tessaract App is your companion for practice management on the go. Our solutions are client-focused, and definitely lawyer-focused, to ensure we get the best interactions. Our methodology of constant building and evolving to meet the real needs of our users have distilled client, case and document processes to a crystal clear product – Tessaract.io. The ability to work on the go will help increase your agility to serve your clients more effectively. Key benefits include: - Managing cases, clients and documents - Recording time and expenses - Managing tasks and meetings - Communicating and recording client engagements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tessaract at none against Safe Scanner's 1. Tessaract also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.6). Safe Scanner's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). 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. Safe Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tessaract asks for nothing beyond the download.
Safe Scanner ships an update fortnightly, Tessaract every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Safe Scanner | Tessaract |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (52 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 97.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 280 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 洪霞 刘 | Tessaract Technologies |
Bugs and requests
Safe Scanner
Reported bugs
2 issues- Images become blurry after loading
- App not working
Requested features
1 request- Permanent free usage
Tessaract
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Safe Scanner
- 永久解锁$2.99
Tessaract
No in-app purchases









