Comparison

PDF Document Scanner vs Tinct

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

Head to head
About

PDF Document Scanner

This app transforms your mobile device into a powerful scanner and document manager. It allows you to extract contact information, create searchable PDFs, and organize your files with folders and tags. Edit, sign, and share documents securely, optimizing your workflow from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Automatic document detection and correction
  • Extract contact info from business cards
  • Create searchable PDFs with OCR
  • Sign, edit, and share documents
  • Organize with folders and tags
  • Secure with Face ID/Touch ID
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Turn paper into searchable PDFs in seconds. Scan, fill, sign, and organize documents on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with on-device processing that never leaves your Apple devices. Captize is your personal document library. Capture receipts, contracts, IDs, and paperwork, then find anything later with full-text search. No extra account. Sync with iCloud. SCAN • Automatic edge detection, crop, perspective, and exposure correction • Batch scanning and high-definition captures • Searchable PDFs with on-device OCR • Smart titles from document content, with Apple Intelligence • Import photos, files, and whole folders EDIT & SIGN • Fill out forms • Add signatures, markups, and comments — Apple Pencil on iPad • Reorder, split, merge, and export pages • Password-protect private PDFs ORGANIZE • Folders, subfolders, tags, and notes • Instant full-text search across names, notes, and document content • Reminders on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch • Widgets and Shortcuts for scan and search BUSINESS CARDS • Auto-extract name, company, email, and phone • Save to Contacts and search by person or company APPLE-NATIVE & PRIVATE • iCloud sync across your devices — no extra login • Optional auto-upload to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or WebDAV • Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID • Image processing and OCR run on-device Terms https://www.mwaretechnologies.com/products/captize/terms-and-conditions-en Support support@mwaretechnologies.com

About

Tinct

Features
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Mix, measure, remember. Tinct is a quiet calculator for fountain pen ink mixers — the kind of mixer who keeps a notebook, a syringe, and a small graveyard of jam jars on the desk. It does one thing: it remembers your recipes, exactly. Add the inks you're combining. Tinct shows the ratios live as you tweak the drops. Slide to scale the recipe to any volume — 5 mL for a sample vial, 50 mL for a converter refill. Save it with a swatch photo and a line of notes about the paper and nib you tested. That's it. No account. No cloud. No subscription. No ads. KEY FEATURES • Live ratio calculation with a visual color bar • Toggle between drops, grams, and milliliters • Scale slider — 5 mL to 100 mL — with per-ingredient amounts • Recipe library with swatch thumbnails and color filters • Notes field for paper, nib, conditions, observations • Share a recipe as text — or export your whole library as a JSON file • Local-only storage — your recipes never touch our servers • Designed for iOS 17 with full Dynamic Type and dark mode WHO IT'S FOR For the mixer who's been writing ratios on Post-it notes and losing them. For the FPN member who wants to share recipes the way good cocktail bars share cocktail cards. For anyone who has tried to scale "5 drops Yama-budo, 2 drops Oxblood" up to 50 mL and gotten the math slightly wrong. PRIVACY & BACKUP Tinct stores everything on your device. No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no third parties — we never see your recipes. • iCloud Backup (if you have it on) includes your recipes automatically. Restore your phone, get them back. • Export the whole library as a JSON file at any time — keep a copy in Files, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or wherever you trust. • Import the same JSON on a new device to restore. • v1.1 will add automatic sync between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud — still without us in the middle. ABOUT Tinct is an indie release inspired by a 2025 thread on the Fountain Pen Network asking for "ink recipe software." This is that. One-time purchase. Yours forever.

Screenshots

PDF Document Scanner4 screens
Tinct3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tinct at none against PDF Document Scanner's 4. Tinct also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). PDF Document Scanner's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. PDF Document Scanner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Tinct asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PDF Document Scanner versus Tinct: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF Document ScannerTinct
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (118 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings118 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMWare Technologies ASSmallPaper

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PDF Document Scanner

Subscriptions3
  • PRO Scanner weekly3 Days trial$1.497 Days
  • PRO Scanner monthly$2.991 Month
  • PRO Scanner Yearly$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Version Unlimited$29.99
None

Tinct

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Document Scanner free?
PDF Document Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tinct free?
Tinct is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PDF Document Scanner or Tinct have ads?
Neither PDF Document Scanner nor Tinct shows ads.

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