Widget Web 27 vs Do Scan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Web 27
Display websites and images directly on your iOS home and lock screens. Interact with web pages through links and special JS-Widgets, with features like geolocation and automatic updates. Customize appearance with transparent backgrounds, dark mode, and ad blocking.
- View websites in home screen widgets
- Interactive JS-Widgets
- Geolocation support
- Transparent lock screen widgets
- Automatic web page updates
- Ad blocker
- Customizable widget style
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• View websites in a widget on the iOS home screen and lock screen. • To navigate, tap on web page links in the iOS widget. • Use special JS-Widgets with instant interaction. • Geolocation support for websites in widgets. • Transparent background for lock screen widgets is supported. • You can also view images from the internet in a widget, such as photo of the day. • The widget can automatically update the state of the web page. So you haven't missed any important information. • Choose a time interval to refresh the web page, or simply click on the widget to refresh it. • Use Dark Mode for any website to match your home screen style. • Use Ad Blocker to remove ads from your web page in a widget. • Customize the widget style to match your home screen wallpaper. • The functions of the widget can be customized by long pressing on it. ----------- Please don't rate it low because some web pages don't work, but write to support from the settings menu to fix it. _____________________________________ The following information about the auto-renewable nature of the subscription: • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and 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 iTunes Account Settings after purchase. • Privacy Policy link https://vitalek.app/widgetweb/privacyPolicy.html and Terms of Use link https://vitalek.app/widgetweb/termsOfUse.html • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
Do Scan
Transform paper documents into searchable PDFs with advanced OCR. Sign, edit, merge, and convert files directly on your device. Offers robust privacy with no account or subscription required.
- Automatic edge detection and perspective correction
- OCR and searchable PDFs
- Signature and markup tools
- PDF merging and conversion
- Siri and Spotlight integration
- Private by design, no account needed
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Turn paper into crisp, searchable PDFs in seconds, then sign, fill, redact, merge and convert them, all on your iPhone or iPad. No account. No subscription. No tracking. Point your camera at a contract, a receipt, a form or a page from your favorite book. Do Scan finds the edges, straightens the page and reads the text, so you can find any document later by a word inside it. Something private on the page? Redact it, and it's really gone. SCAN • Automatic edge detection and perspective correction • Scan a whole stack of pages in one go • Color, Grayscale and Black & White filters you can change anytime • Smart titles suggested from the first page OCR AND SEARCH • Text recognition on every page, with automatic language detection • Searchable PDFs: select, copy and find text • Search your whole library by the words inside your documents SIRI, SPOTLIGHT AND SHORTCUTS • Ask Siri to open or search your documents • Find documents in Spotlight by name, or by the text inside them • Use Do Scan actions in Shortcuts • Off until you turn it on, and you choose what's indexed. Locked PDFs are never indexed SIGN AND MARK UP • Save your signature and place it on any page, then move, resize and rotate it with your fingers • Sign in black, blue, red or white • Highlight, draw and write with Apple Pencil or your finger • Add typed text boxes • Fill in PDF forms REDACT FOR REAL • Black out account numbers, addresses, names, anything you'd rather not share • Drag a box over it and it's removed from the PDF, not just hidden under a black bar • Nothing left to copy, search or uncover: the text and image underneath are deleted • Pages keep their size and layout, and everything else stays sharp and searchable PDF TOOLS • Merge documents into one PDF • Reorder, rotate, crop and delete pages • Reduce file size for email • Lock PDFs with a password • Convert to PDF/A for archiving • Export pages as JPEG or PNG CONVERT TO PDF • Word (.doc, .docx) • PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) • Photos: pick several, then merge them or keep them separate • RTF, TXT and HTML STAY ORGANIZED • One + button in your library to scan, add photos or open files • Collections, like photo albums: one document can be in several • Favorites for what you use most • Recently Deleted keeps documents for 30 days • Built for iPad, with a sidebar and Apple Pencil support • Ready for iPhone Duo, closed or unfolded • Light and Dark Mode, adjustable interface size PRIVATE BY DESIGN No login, no analytics and no tracking. Do Scan has no server of its own. If you turn on Siri & Spotlight, iOS can use your indexed documents to answer Siri, and Siri may use Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Built entirely on Apple's frameworks, with no third-party code. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Widget Web 27 at Free against Do Scan's $14.99. Widget Web 27 also leads on ratings volume (171 vs 1). Do Scan's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Widget Web 27 is free to download; Do Scan costs $14.99 up front. Widget Web 27 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 3 months. Do Scan asks for nothing beyond the download.
Do Scan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Web 27 has 171 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Widget Web 27 ships an update every 6 weeks, Do Scan weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Web 27 | Do Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (171 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 171 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vitaliy Alekseev | Ammar Ahmad |
Customer experience
Widget Web 27
Do Scan
Bugs and requests
Widget Web 27
Reported bugs
14 issues- App constantly asks to rate it
- Ad bubble in the bottom corner
- White screen on page load since iOS 18
- Widgets not showing up in the widget list
- Widget loses its position in the webpage
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- Scheduled refresh doesn't work
- Widget only works the first time it's set
- Pro version doesn't display all of crop area
- Crop feature duplicates and crop lines show on widget
- Widget shows white screen after refresh
- Snapshot can slip on reload
- Difficult to frame webcam photos, no useful preview
- App takes up a large amount of storage
- Cannot select the top part of the site due to modal window
Requested features
10 requests- Larger square widget option for iPads
- Ability to interact with website through widget
- Remove "widget web" caption
- Allow trying premium features for one webpage
- Add larger 4x2 widget size
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- Backup saved widgets for import between devices
- Ability to group widgets in categories
- Option to adjust browser font size
- iCloud support for storing links
- Fix iOS 18 white screen issue
Do Scan
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Web 27
- Super PRO3 Days trial$1.993 Months
- PRO Version$4.99
Do Scan
No in-app purchases









