Comparison

Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR vs Rain, From Below

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

Head to head
About

Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR

This app transforms your iPhone or iPad into a powerful document scanner. It captures, enhances, and recognizes text from documents and business cards, exporting them as searchable PDFs or DOCX files. Features include advanced editing, OCR, text-to-speech, and cloud integration.

Highlights
  • High-quality document scanning
  • Accurate on-device and cloud OCR
  • Searchable PDF and DOCX export
  • Business card scanning to Contacts
  • Text-to-speech and accessibility features
  • Advanced editing and annotation tools
  • Cloud integration and auto-upload
Features
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Prizmo is the most capable scanner app for iPhone & iPad to create stunning scans of documents or process business cards from photos. Prizmo offers an efficient capture workflow, powerful editing capabilities, a choice of highly accurate OCRs, text-to-speech & accessibility features, searchable PDF & DOCX exports, and comprehensive automation, all packaged in an elegant & intuitive user interface. Prizmo will be your trusted mobile scanner, always at hand. *** Featured in an Apple Keynote presentation *** "Prizmo is a remarkably deep app that includes a myriad of other features." — John Voorhees (MacStories) "When it comes to mobile scanner apps, Prizmo 5 is unmatched for its fast, streamlined workflow and high-quality scans." — J.R. Bookwalter (MacWorld) PHOTO CAPTURE • Capture workflow tailored for speed: in just 3 taps, have your document scanned, cleaned up, cropped, and text-recognized to a multi-page PDF right into your cloud • Highest quality scans: up to 300+ DPI • State-of-the-art page detection • Autoshoot • Quality review: keep or reshoot • Innovative stabilization • Multi-page support TEXT RECOGNITION • Reliable & accurate on-device OCR with machine learning in 30 languages(*) • High-performance Cloud OCR in 139 languages(*) + handwriting recognition • Fine-grained OCR editing: text & regions, binarization, text polarity • Structural analysis with CoreML • Background processing ENHANCE, EDIT & EXPORT • Adjust rotation, perspective crop, cleanup mode (black/white, color, gray), brightness & contrast, edge repair • Flattening of curved contents (books & magazines) • Powerful non-destructive editing: original photo can always be reprocessed from scratch without reshooting • Export formats: searchable PDF, Microsoft Word DOCX with original layout, TXT, PNG, JPEG • Advanced PDF options: password protected PDF, efficient compression formats (customizable JPEG quality, CCITT G4, JBIG2) to generate small files • Auto Upload: PDFs are automatically sent to your cloud (iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV) • Export business cards to Contacts or as vCard • Smart actions: interact with detected phone numbers, dates, locations, email addresses, URLs ANNOTATION & MARKUP • Powerful annotation engine that works with Apple Pencil, capacitive pencils or finger • Annotate papers, fill out forms, or sign documents • Markup is stored in editable form (can be updated or even removed at any time) TEXT READER & VOICE • Comfortable multi-page reading experience • Customizable margins, line spacing, text size & fonts • Read text aloud using iOS voices • Adjustable speech rate & playback controls • Word highlighting during playback ACCESSIBILITY • Optimized for VoiceOver • Spoken guidance prior to shooting • Spoken description • Dynamic Type • OpenDyslexic reading font FOR PROS • Batch editing: replicate settings across pages • Automation (x-callback-url): use Shortcuts app to automate document processing • Keyboard shortcuts OS INTEGRATION • Siri Shortcuts • Messages extension: scan & send a document without leaving the conversation • Open In & Photos extensions (process & cleanup) • iPad multitasking and drag & drop • iCloud & Continuity across iPhone, iPad & Mac • Background audio player PRICING • Prizmo is available as a free download to try out its core features • Premium Pack is a one-time purchase to unlock all limitations: unlimited on-device OCR, full access to text & text-to-speech, smart actions, watermark removal • Cloud Plan subscription (optional) provides the Cloud OCR feature. Plans are detailed in the app • Volume purchase (VPP): see Prizmo (Volume Ed.) PRIVACY Prizmo is "privacy first". Personal data is yours, we don’t access it, we don’t read it, we don’t host it on our servers. Privacy Policy: https://creaceed.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://creaceed.com/terms Feedback: prizmo@creaceed.com (*) full list of OCR languages available on https://creaceed.com/iprizmo Cloud OCR requires an Internet connection.

About

Rain, From Below

Features
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Lie five metres down in a freshwater lake and watch the rain arrive from underneath. Every drop writes its own ring on the surface and drags a puff of air under with it. The sky fits into a bright disc above you - that is what water does to light - and around it the surface turns to mirror. A sandy bank rises toward shore with eelgrass swaying and lily pads floating overhead. A school of small fish drifts through; larger ones cruise past; now and then a turtle, an eel or a yabby wanders by. The sound is what a hydrophone would hear: the ringing of air bubbles, shifted down to where you can hear it, thickening into a roar when the rain comes on heavy. Distant thunder in a storm, wind across the surface, a boat passing far off. Nothing here is a recording. The scene is generated live, so ten hours run without a loop, and the fish never repeat. WHAT YOU CAN CHANGE • Three modes: Sleep (dim, calm, quiet), Focus, Showcase • Time of day on a 24-hour slider, or let it follow the real clock - dawn, overcast, dusk, night with a moon that matches tonight's phase • Rain, hail or snow; storms with lightning and thunder • Waves from glass-calm to a rolling swell; four kinds of water • How many fish, how much eelgrass, lily pads, creatures, birds, insects • A timer up to ten hours or an end time, with a fade-out or a wake-into-dawn ending • Lock-screen play/pause; keeps playing with the screen off Made for sleeping, studying and sitting still. PRO Pro adds the reef, the river and the pool, seasons, Match the sun, the sound mixer and the night programme. It is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription (A$2.99 a month or A$19.99 a year in Australia; prices differ by country), or a one-off lifetime unlock (A$39.99). Subscriptions renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://frombelowstudios.netlify.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR4 screens
Rain, From Below4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Rain, From Below at every 3 days against Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR's every 6 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Rain, From Below sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR ships an update every 6 weeks, Rain, From Below every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR versus Rain, From Below: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrizmo › Document Scanner, OCRRain, From Below
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (156 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings156 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCreaceed SRLJack Johnson

Bugs and requests

Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Watermark appears despite purchase
  • App crashes on iOS 17.0.1
  • PDF export errors (Dropbox, WhatsApp)
  • Random import of images
  • Cropping magnetism not deactivatable
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  • App crashes on iOS 16
  • Data loss after deleting duplicates
  • Files refuse to open
  • Scans appear in double
  • Text distortion on documents
  • App exits during startup (iCloud access)
  • Edges of scans are clipped/mangled
  • Watermark on legal documents
  • App exits during startup with iCloud
  • Scanned documents disappear
  • Japanese OCR not handling vertical text
  • App crashes after update to 5.2
  • Toolbar font color issue in dark mode with Apple Pencil

Requested features

18 requests
  • Automatic document naming
  • CarPlay compatibility
  • Folder management
  • More export formats (A6, A7)
  • Undo function for deletions
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  • Shortcuts integration
  • Hindi language support for OCR
  • EPUB export format
  • Volume purchase option for families
  • Ability to disable edge correction
  • More image editing tools (sharpness, exposure, etc.)
  • AI for artifact differentiation
  • 3DLUT filter support
  • Non-Euclidean cropping
  • Integration with Apple Pencil for notes
  • Improved Japanese OCR (vertical text)
  • Translation feature restoration
  • Better organization (folders, tags)

Rain, From Below

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR

Subscriptions4
  • Cloud Plan (S) - Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Cloud Plan (S) - Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Cloud Plan (L) - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Cloud Plan (L) - Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium Pack (Upgrade 4 > 5)$15.99
  • Premium Pack (non-recurring)$23.99
3 purchases

Rain, From Below

Subscriptions2
  • Pro$1.991 Month
  • Pro$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR free?
Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rain, From Below free?
Rain, From Below is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR or Rain, From Below have ads?
Neither Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR nor Rain, From Below shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR or Rain, From Below?
Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR ships an update every 6 weeks, and Rain, From Below every 3 days. Most recently, Prizmo › Document Scanner, OCR was updated on October 15, 2026 and Rain, From Below on October 10, 2026.

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