Hookmark Pal vs ScanDone PDF Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hookmark Pal
This app allows you to bookmark and link various types of data from your favorite applications, including web pages, tasks, and documents. It enables bidirectional linking between bookmarks and syncs your data across devices via iCloud. Get more value from your existing apps and data.
- Universal bookmarking across apps
- Bidirectional linking between bookmarks
- Syncs data via iCloud
- Cross-device compatibility
- Linkable items include tasks, emails, and documents
- Recent items and pinned bookmarks
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Hookmark: bookmark and retrieve important data across apps and devices. The first truly universal bidirectional bookmarking app for iPhone and iPad. Hookmark enables you to bookmark and link data from your favorite apps. Not just web pages, tasks (OmniFocus, Things,etc.), Books e-books, emails, DEVONthink items, Document in Drafts, … or anything else. As long as it's linkable (has a URL), Hookmark can bookmark it. And you can "hook" bookmarks together (create and use two-way links between them). With a Premium Service in-app purchase, Hookmark syncs your data to iCloud Drive. This makes them available across your iPad and iPhones. It can also sync bookmarks to & from Hook for macOS, another CogSci Apps® invention (sold separately). Start working on one device, resume on another! See Recent items and Pin your bookmarks across apps too. Get more out of your favorite apps and data with Hookmark. Using Hookmark requires agreeing to the Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ScanDone PDF Scanner
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ScanDone is a simple scanner app. Scan, send it off — to Mail, Messages, Files, or Notes — and be done with it! ◎ Automatic cropping, straightening, and colour correction ScanDone uses smart edge detection to crop and straighten the pages you can. Colour correction works in 4 modes: Photography, Colour Document, Black-and-white Document, and Grayscale. Scan as many pages as you need in one go — ScanDone shall combine the pages into one single PDF file. ◎ Searchable PDFs with OCR, in 9 languages With OCR (Optical Content Recognition), your scanned PDFs are searchable by default. ScanDone supports OCR with many languages, and works when you have mixed languages on the same page. This is made possible by Apple Intelligence™ and the Vision Kit framework. OCR is processed 100% locally for privacy and speed. ◎ Scan 1 doc per day for free — or unlock with a one-time purchase For casual users, ScanDone is free — you can scan 1 document per day for free, forever! If you use it regularly — or if you feel like supporting our work — you can remove the limit with a one-time purchase. Better yet, share the purchase with your favourite people via iCloud Family Sharing!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hookmark Pal at every 3 weeks against ScanDone PDF Scanner's every 2 months. Hookmark Pal also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Hookmark Pal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ScanDone PDF Scanner sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hookmark Pal ships an update every 3 weeks, ScanDone PDF Scanner every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hookmark Pal | ScanDone PDF Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CogSci Apps Corp. | Sasquatch Studio Inc. |
In-app purchases
Hookmark Pal
- Hookmark Pal3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Hookmark Pal7 Days trial$29.991 Year
ScanDone PDF Scanner
- Weekly Pass$1.00
- Lifetime Membership (Family)$4.99
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