Safe Scanner vs Paperless Scan
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.
Paperless Scan
Easily scan documents and convert them into PDF files. Merge multiple documents into a single PDF and share them directly from the app. View file details and manage your scanned documents efficiently.
- Scan documents to PDF
- Merge multiple PDFs
- Batch processing
- Share scanned files
- View PDF details
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Tap "Scan" button to scan the document and automatically convert and save as PDF file. To merge and batch processing PDF files, tap "Merge" button and choose all the files in order to combine them. Tap each cell to view the detail of the PDF file and you can choose "Share" option to share and save the files.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Safe Scanner at 5.0 against Paperless Scan's 4.0. Safe Scanner also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (52 vs 13). Paperless Scan's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and monetization model 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. Paperless Scan asks for nothing beyond the download.
Safe Scanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 52 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 97% of Safe Scanner's written reviews are positive against 100% of Paperless Scan's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Safe Scanner ships an update fortnightly, Paperless Scan every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Safe Scanner | Paperless Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (52 ratings) — better | 4.0 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 280 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 洪霞 刘 | Appulet, Inc |
Customer experience
Safe Scanner
Paperless Scan
Bugs and requests
Safe Scanner
Reported bugs
2 issues- Images become blurry after loading
- App not working
Requested features
1 request- Permanent free usage
Paperless Scan
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Safe Scanner
- 永久解锁$2.99
Paperless Scan
No in-app purchases
