Comparison

Safe Scanner vs ScanDone PDF Scanner

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Offline text recognition
  • Image to text conversion
  • Text correction
  • Translation
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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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.

About

ScanDone PDF Scanner

Features
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ScanDone is a simple scanner app. Scan, send it off — to Mail, Messages, Files, or Notes — and be done with it! ◎ Automatic cropping, straightening, and colour correction ScanDone uses smart edge detection to crop and straighten the pages you can. Colour correction works in 4 modes: Photography, Colour Document, Black-and-white Document, and Grayscale. Scan as many pages as you need in one go — ScanDone shall combine the pages into one single PDF file. ◎ Searchable PDFs with OCR, in 9 languages With OCR (Optical Content Recognition), your scanned PDFs are searchable by default. ScanDone supports OCR with many languages, and works when you have mixed languages on the same page. This is made possible by Apple Intelligence™ and the Vision Kit framework. OCR is processed 100% locally for privacy and speed. ◎ Scan 1 doc per day for free — or unlock with a one-time purchase For casual users, ScanDone is free — you can scan 1 document per day for free, forever! If you use it regularly — or if you feel like supporting our work — you can remove the limit with a one-time purchase. Better yet, share the purchase with your favourite people via iCloud Family Sharing!

Screenshots

Safe Scanner4 screens
ScanDone PDF Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Safe Scanner at fortnightly against ScanDone PDF Scanner's every 6 weeks. Safe Scanner also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.2). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Safe Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ScanDone PDF Scanner sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Safe Scanner ships an update fortnightly, ScanDone PDF Scanner every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Safe Scanner versus ScanDone PDF Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSafe ScannerScanDone PDF Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (52 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews97.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings52 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size280 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer洪霞 刘Sasquatch Studio Inc.

Bugs and requests

Safe Scanner

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Images become blurry after loading
  • App not working

Requested features

1 request
  • Permanent free usage

ScanDone PDF Scanner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Safe Scanner

One-time1
  • 永久解锁$2.99
2 purchases

ScanDone PDF Scanner

One-time2
  • Weekly Pass$1.00
  • Lifetime Membership (Family)$4.99

Questions

Is Safe Scanner free?
Safe Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScanDone PDF Scanner free?
ScanDone PDF Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Safe Scanner or ScanDone PDF Scanner have ads?
Neither Safe Scanner nor ScanDone PDF Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Safe Scanner or ScanDone PDF Scanner?
Safe Scanner ships an update fortnightly, and ScanDone PDF Scanner every 6 weeks. Most recently, Safe Scanner was updated on October 1, 2026 and ScanDone PDF Scanner on October 30, 2026.

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