Comparison

Doc Scanner vs Banana Viewer

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

Head to head
About

Doc Scanner

This app allows you to quickly scan documents, photos, and cards, converting them into clear images or PDFs. It offers OCR text recognition, PDF editing, and conversion to various formats, making document management and sharing efficient.

Highlights
  • Mobile document scanning
  • OCR text recognition
  • PDF to Word conversion
  • Image to PDF conversion
  • Document editing and annotation
  • E-signature capabilities
  • AirPrint document printing
Features
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Scan documents, photos, and cards quickly and easily, then translate them into other languages. Scan documents into a clear, sharp image or PDF to email, fax, print, or save to files. Doc Scanner is a free scanner app that helps users scan, edit, and store data on smartphones, iPads, and computers. Extract texts with OCR and convert PDF to Word, Word to PDF, PDF to JPEG, etc. Features: * A powerful and quick mobile scanner Use your phone's camera to scan receipts, notes, invoices, whiteboard discussions, business cards, certificates, QR codes, etc. * Improve scan quality Smart cropping, editing, and auto-enhancing make the texts and graphics in DocuSign look clear and sharp. * E-signature Contracts can be signed and DocuSign files shared to your PDF drive. It is widely used among the CSB, e-file, real estate agents, and in government form filling. * PDF Converter: Image to PDF Converter, Just select some images or take a picture with your camera and convert it into a PDF file, or convert a document file (doc, docx, ppt, pptx) to a PDF. You can open any PDF with the Camera Scanner. You can also highlight key sections, add comments, fill out the form, and sign it with a cam scaner. * Advanced Editing It is possible to add annotations or a customised watermark to documents. You can make barcodes with a barcode generator. * OCR Text Recognition The OCR Text Recognition feature lets you recognise text from images, edit texts, or share texts to a printer, mail, or other reference apps. * Share PDF/JPEG Files Easily share documents in PDF or JPEG format with others via social media, email attachment, or by sending the doc link. There are pdf compressors, pdf mergers, pdf combiners, converters of jpg to pdf and jpeg to pdf, qr code generators, and qr code readers. * AirPrint documents Instantly print out documents in CamScanner to a nearby printer via AirPrint. CamScanner users scan and manage * A simple scanner with scannable office lens files * The most effective PDF scanner for ilovepdf, iscanner, and Adobe Scan * Scan a bill, an invoice, a contract, a tax return, or a business card with the can scaner. * A whiteboard, a memo, a script, a letter. * A blackboard, a note, a PowerPoint presentation, a book, an article, and so on. * A certificate, a document of identification, a painting. * Word to PDF converter, pdf editor, QR code scanner, Doc to PDF converter, and Word to PDF converter are all included. Convert office documents to PDF files. Turn your PDF files into editable and scannable office formats such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. == DocScanner Pro Feature == There are two subscription plans. $1.99 per month $11.99 per year with a 3-day trial Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account upon purchase confirmation. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and we will identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Terms of Service: http://shellinfra.com/tos.html Privacy Policy: http://shellinfra.com/privacy-policy.html If you have any questions, please email shellinfra01@gmail.com. Thanks for using this app !!!

About

Banana Viewer

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Banana is a fast, private PDF viewer and editor for iPhone and iPad. View, edit, mark up and organise your PDFs — all offline, all on your device. Nothing is uploaded. There is no account to make and no cloud to sign into. Banana works exactly the same with the network off. FREE FOREVER • PDF viewer — smooth scrolling, pinch to zoom, thumbnails and a page grid • Search inside a document, with highlighted results, and Go to Page • Rotate, reorder, delete and extract pages • Merge several PDFs into one, or split one into many • Compress a PDF down to a size you can actually email • Add page numbers, or copy a page out as an image • Sign documents — draw your signature, place it, save it for reuse • Notes — add timestamped notes to any document • Password protection — lock with open and owner passwords • Group share — select several PDFs and send them by AirDrop, Mail or Messages • Open from anywhere — Banana appears in the Open In menu across iOS • Undo and redo any change, from the buttons beside the back arrow • Revert to the original — discard every edit and go back to the file as you imported it • Export the original untouched, whatever you have done to your copy Signatures and notes are written into the PDF itself, so they open the same way in Preview, Acrobat or anything else. ON iPAD AS WELL • Split View with side-by-side PDF comparison • Highlight, underline and strike through text WHAT COSTS MONEY Four things. Everything above stays free. • Document Scanner — camera scanning with edge detection and multi-page capture, $0.99 • Fill Forms — fill in form fields and keep the result, $0.99 • Text to PDF — comes with the unlock • Version history — save a version by name and restore it later; comes with the unlock Open a document and all four are free to try for 30 days. After that, one $2.99 purchase unlocks all of them, forever. It is a Universal Purchase: buy it on your iPhone and it is already unlocked on your iPad and on the Mac app, and the other way round. Already bought the Document Scanner or Fill Forms? You pay only the difference to move up to the full unlock, and you keep what you bought. No subscriptions. Ever. PRIVACY • 100% offline — documents never leave your device • No analytics, no tracking, no cloud uploads • No account required 14 LANGUAGES English, Deutsch, Français, 简体中文, 日本語, Español, 한국어, Português (Portugal), Português (Brasil), Italiano, Nederlands, Türkçe, Polski, Русский Also available on Mac, with more tools, workspaces, and split view with PDF comparison. The unlock covers both.

Screenshots

Doc Scanner4 screens
Banana Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Banana Viewer at none against Doc Scanner's shown. Doc Scanner's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Doc Scanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Banana Viewer sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doc Scanner ships an update every 2 months, Banana Viewer every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Doc Scanner versus Banana Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoc ScannerBanana Viewer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (57 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings57 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHELL INFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATE LIMITEDFrank Pimenta

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Doc Scanner

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month$1.991 Month
  • 1 Year (3 Days Trial)3 Days trial$11.991 Year
12 purchases

Banana Viewer

One-time12
  • Upgrade to Everything$0.99
  • English2 variants$0.99
  • Filling Form Feature$0.99
Show 9 more
  • Upgrade to Everything$1.99
  • Crop and Flatten feature$1.99
  • Annotate Feature$1.99
  • Redact Feature$1.99
  • OCR feature$1.99
  • batch processing feature$1.99
  • Unlock Everything$2.99
  • Password protection feature$4.99
  • Full Version$4.99

Questions

Is Doc Scanner free?
Doc Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Banana Viewer free?
Banana Viewer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Doc Scanner or Banana Viewer have ads?
Doc Scanner shows ads; Banana Viewer does not.
Which is updated more often, Doc Scanner or Banana Viewer?
Doc Scanner ships an update every 2 months, and Banana Viewer every 5 weeks. Most recently, Doc Scanner was updated on November 3, 2026 and Banana Viewer on October 28, 2026.

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