Comparison

Scan to Sheets vs SemanticMarker

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

Head to head
About

Scan to Sheets

Effortlessly scan QR and barcodes and directly save the data to Google Sheets. Ideal for inventory management, attendance tracking, and more. Customize your data with timestamps, geolocations, and custom fields.

Highlights
  • Scan QR and barcodes
  • Save to Google Sheets
  • Inventory tracking
  • Attendance monitoring
  • Customizable data fields
  • Geolocation and timestamps
  • Support for external scanners
Features
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Scan to Sheets - QR & Barcode scanner allows you to easily scan QR and barcodes and store codes in Google Sheets. Looking to keep track of the inventory or your shop, warehouse or library? Need to monitor attendance of your classes, events and meetings? Look no further than Scan to Sheets, the app that allows you to quickly and easily scan QR codes and barcodes directly to Google Sheets. Supports a large variety of formats and external scanners connected via bluetooth or USB. Securely sign in with your Google account or connect to your public spreadsheets without sign in. You can customise your schema to append geolocations, timestamps, quantities, and custom text and numeric fields and labels to your scans. -------------------- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ See https://scantogooglesheets.com/privacy/ for our privacy policy.

About

SemanticMarker

Features
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For summer 2026, we have added NFC functionality. You can write an NFC tag with your guest feeding URL. Anyone with a smart phone can then scan the tag and run your guest feeding site. The Bluetooth BLE discovery has been cleaned up to you won't see 2 names for the same device - after you have renamed one of your feeders or clickers. This is a limitation of iPhone where the bluetooth remembers a device the first time you "discover" it. So if you change its name (through our messages or BLE) the iPhone still thinks it's the old name. But the advertisement has the new name. So I figured out how to cache the new name and use it instead of the old (remembered) name. Hopefully this cleans up things. Support for 26.3. 2026 is the year of IoT control for my #Abilities users. Kona Currents, LLC offers a unique Remote Education and IoT processing app for creation, collection, processing, search, and messaging of optical visual markers we call Semantic Marker (R). An innovative text and optical search engine is included, along with an API for processing optical labels, barcodes and two-dimensional codes. These optical image and data files are downloadable for internal and external use. This app interacts through published API's with Cloud Computing services. The app will communicate via MQTT messaging among a suite of IoT devices, as well as using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) directly to devices, which is especially useful to set credentials such as WIFI passwords for the IoT devices (ie. ESP 32 devices). See SemanticMarker.org for more on the abilities use. - We have one user using Eye Tracking to send messages to reward his service dog over our IoT framework! #Ability Now for Summer 2025, is the support for Space and Time of your Semantic Marker(R). This includes GPS and Time that is extracted from the meta-data of your markers. The Map will now show the markers in their geospatial location. See the map above where the optical visual markers, which represent music artifacts, are placed at where the concert was recorded. The date of the events are also tagged - and stored in the photo for sharing outside the Semantic Marker(R) framework. Now think of real-estate or other location based artifacts: tag with a Semantic Marker(R) and the marker is much more valuable. https://semanticmarker.org/users/common/MusicMatrixSM.png

Screenshots

Scan to Sheets4 screens
SemanticMarker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Scan to Sheets at Free against SemanticMarker's $9.99. Scan to Sheets also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks). SemanticMarker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Scan to Sheets is free to download; SemanticMarker costs $9.99 up front. Scan to Sheets sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SemanticMarker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scan to Sheets ships an update every 8 days, SemanticMarker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Scan to Sheets versus SemanticMarker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScan to SheetsSemanticMarker
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.4 (270 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings270 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size125 MB281 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobile FirstScott Moody

Bugs and requests

Scan to Sheets

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App not working
  • Cannot login
  • Paid for upgrade but not applied
  • App crashes upon opening
  • App unlinks Google account
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  • App does not activate after subscription
  • App does not connect to Google account
  • Purchase not restored after payment
  • No more scans despite upgrade
  • New sheets not created in Google account after update
  • App glitching immediately when opened
  • Scanned items not showing in Google sheets
  • Loading screen stuck

Requested features

5 requests
  • Maintain app long-term
  • More flexibility in data entry workflow
  • Ability to select prepopulated data
  • Subscription-based authorization for multiple users
  • Specify starting cell and column count for data entry

SemanticMarker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Scan to Sheets

Subscriptions7
  • Starter Plan$4.991 Month
  • Starter Plan$6.991 Month
  • Starter Plan$7.991 Month
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  • Starter Plan Quarterly$18.993 Months
  • Starter Plan Yearly$43.991 Year
  • Starter Plan Yearly$69.991 Year
  • Starter Plan Yearly$78.901 Year
One-time2
  • Premium$4.99
  • Premium Features$9.99
None

SemanticMarker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scan to Sheets free?
Scan to Sheets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SemanticMarker free?
SemanticMarker costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scan to Sheets or SemanticMarker have ads?
Neither Scan to Sheets nor SemanticMarker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scan to Sheets or SemanticMarker?
Scan to Sheets ships an update every 8 days, and SemanticMarker every 6 weeks. Most recently, Scan to Sheets was updated on November 2, 2026 and SemanticMarker on November 3, 2026.

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