Comparison

Smart Receipts vs SecondBrain Pro

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

Head to head
About

Smart Receipts

This app is a scanner and document manager that digitizes and organizes your business cards and documents. It offers features like OCR, PDF creation, editing, signing, and secure storage. Optimize your workflow by easily managing, searching, and sharing your scanned files.

Highlights
  • Automatic document detection and correction
  • Contact information extraction from business cards
  • Searchable PDF creation with OCR
  • Built-in PDF editor for signing and editing
  • Full-text search and organization with folders/tags
  • Document reminders and biometric security
  • iCloud synchronization across devices
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

SecondBrain Pro

Features
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Your Personal AI-Augmented Memory SecondBrain helps you capture, organize, and recall your thoughts, ideas, and learnings using voice-first capture and AI-powered search. INSTANT VOICE CAPTURE • Tap to record, automatic transcription • Works on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad • Background recording for long thoughts • Premium Neural TTS for voice playback AI-POWERED RECALL • Natural language search: "What did I learn about React last week?" • On-device AI chat with your memory context • Temporal queries: "yesterday", "last month", "last summer" • Smart tagging and categorization CHOOSE YOUR STORAGE FREE - Local Only • Store memories on your device • Voice capture with standard TTS • On-device AI chat (10 memory context) • Perfect for getting started STANDARD - CHF 7.99 (One-Time) • Everything in Free + • iCloud Sync across all your Apple devices • Premium Neural TTS voices • Expanded AI context (50 memories) • Export to JSON/Markdown • iPhone ↔ iPad ↔ Watch ↔ Mac sync PREMIUM - CHF 17.99 (One-Time) • Everything in Standard + • Custom CloudFlare Worker backend • AI Auto-Correction of voice input • AI Summarization of search results • Quality Boosting for better relevance • GDPR compliant, EU servers PRIVACY-FIRST • No account required (Free & Standard tiers) • On-device AI processing (iOS 26+ Apple Intelligence) • Optional bring-your-own-backend (Premium) • End-to-end encrypted sync (iCloud) • You own your data, always KEY FEATURES • Voice recognition in multiple languages • Real-time transcription overlay • Memory types: Note, Task, Learning, Decision, Discovery • Tag-based organization • Temporal search ("today", "last week", "last year") • Export your data anytime • Dark mode support • Apple Watch companion app PRICING • FREE: 100 local memories • STANDARD: CHF 7.99 (iCloud Sync, unlimited) • PREMIUM: CHF 17.99 (CloudFlare AI, unlimited)

Screenshots

Smart Receipts4 screens
SecondBrain Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SecondBrain Pro at Free against Smart Receipts's $44.99. SecondBrain Pro also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Smart Receipts's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On ads 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

SecondBrain Pro is free to download; Smart Receipts costs $44.99 up front. SecondBrain Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Smart Receipts asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Receipts ships an update every 9 days, SecondBrain Pro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Smart Receipts versus SecondBrain Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart ReceiptsSecondBrain Pro
Price$44.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMWare Technologies ASHeinrich Krupp

In-app purchases

None

Smart Receipts

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

SecondBrain Pro

One-time2
  • Standard$7.99
  • SecondBrain PREMIUM$17.99

Questions

Is Smart Receipts free?
Smart Receipts costs $44.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SecondBrain Pro free?
SecondBrain Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smart Receipts or SecondBrain Pro have ads?
Neither Smart Receipts nor SecondBrain Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Receipts or SecondBrain Pro?
Smart Receipts ships an update every 9 days, and SecondBrain Pro every 2 months. Most recently, Smart Receipts was updated on September 29, 2026 and SecondBrain Pro on October 10, 2026.

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