Comparison

Skanner vs EasyScan

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

Head to head
About

Skanner

Transform your iPhone into a versatile document scanner. Easily capture, edit, and organize multi-page documents. Enhance clarity with filters, annotate with text and drawings, and share in various formats.

Highlights
  • Multi-page scanning
  • Automatic border detection
  • Annotation tools (text, drawing)
  • Document organization
  • Multiple export formats (PDF, JPEG)
  • Searchable documents
Features
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Download Skanner and turn your iPhone into a powerful document scanner. Scan one, two or four pages at a time or scan from multiple document photos from the camera roll. Create a collage of two side by side document pages. Skanner automatically detects document borders and straightens the document out. Borders can be adjusted if necessary. Store scanned documents, annotate them with a title and a comment and share them in a multi-page PDF file or in JPEG format. Share scanned documents through your favorite messaging app, document sharing app, email or Airdrop. Highlight lines of text in your documents, blackout or whiteout sensitive text. Draw on top of a scanned document with the Pen tool. Use one of several available filters to achieve best document quality. View all scanned documents in form or a feed. Search documents by their title, comment or hashtags. Adjust settings to either use high, medium or low compression rate when storing documents. Copy already scanned documents and store them separately from the originals, add new highlights to them and share them in PDF of JPEG formats. Scan documents from Camera Roll or from any other photo album. Share a photo with Skanner via iOS Share Sheet extension for further processing in the Skanner.

About

EasyScan

Scan documents using your camera or photos, automatically correcting perspective and enhancing image quality. Export scans as PDFs, images, or searchable text files with on-device processing and OCR.

Highlights
  • Camera-based document scanning
  • Automatic perspective correction
  • Image quality enhancement
  • Multiple export formats (PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, TXT)
  • Searchable PDF with embedded text
  • On-device OCR for text recognition
  • Offline text orientation detection
Features
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EasyScan scans one document page at a time with the camera, corrects the perspective and image quality, and exports the result as a PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, or plain-text file. It is also the demo app for Pixelnetica's Document Scanning SDK (DSSDK) and shows the SDK working in a real app. Capture The camera shows a live edge overlay and captures automatically when it detects a steady, well-framed page. A manual shutter, tap-to-focus, and torch are on the capture screen. You can also bring in one photo at a time from your library and process it the same way. Editing Adjust the detected corners, crop, correct the perspective, deskew, and rotate the page. Choose the output mode: Original, Color, Grayscale, or Black & White. Export - PDF, with five compression presets from Lossless to Extreme. - Searchable PDF: recognized text is embedded as a real text layer you can search and copy. - TIFF (G4), PNG, JPEG, and plain text (TXT). Files are shared through the standard iOS share sheet, or opened from the Files app. Text recognition (OCR) Text recognition runs on the device. After a scan, the recognized text opens in an editable view for correction before you export it. A language picker sets the recognition language; language packs download when you first select one. Offline text-orientation detection is included and needs no download. On-device processing Scanning, image processing, and text recognition run on your device. No account or sign-in is required. Language packs are downloaded only when you choose to add one. Document Scanning SDK EasyScan is built on Pixelnetica's DSSDK and demonstrates its edge detection, perspective correction, deskew, color processing, and on-device OCR. Developers can find documentation through the link on this page, and the app's complete source code is published as a sample on GitHub: https://github.com/Pixelnetica/apple-ios-pdf-ocr-document-scanner

Screenshots

Skanner3 screens
EasyScan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Skanner at 5.0 against EasyScan's 4.0. Skanner also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (19 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Skanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skanner has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skanner ships an update fortnightly, EasyScan every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Skanner versus EasyScan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkannerEasyScan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (19 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.3
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVladimir FridmanPixelnetica

Customer experience

Skanner

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

EasyScan

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Skanner

No in-app purchases

None

EasyScan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skanner free?
Skanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EasyScan free?
EasyScan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Skanner or EasyScan?
Skanner is rated higher. Skanner averages 5.0 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while EasyScan averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Skanner or EasyScan have ads?
Neither Skanner nor EasyScan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skanner or EasyScan?
Skanner ships an update fortnightly, and EasyScan every 5 months. Most recently, Skanner was updated on November 2, 2026 and EasyScan on November 3, 2026.

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