Scannable vs Gloo Messaging
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scannable
This app allows you to scan documents and extract text using optical character recognition (OCR). Save textbooks, letters, and receipts as digital data. Supports English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
- Document scanning
- Image to text conversion (OCR)
- Save digital data
- Supports English, Japanese, Chinese
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Scannable - Mobile Scanner App. Free Scanning App / Document Scan / OCR / Photo Scan Simple operation, image to text analysis! You can save textbooks, letters, and receipts as digital data. English and Japanese, Chinese-Simplified are supported.
Gloo Messaging
Facilitate authentic communication for church and ministry leaders. Manage contacts, send broadcasts, and respond to prayer requests on the go. Assign conversations and engage with members seamlessly.
- Real-time conversations
- Respond to prayer requests
- One-to-many Broadcasts
- Contact management
- Assign conversations
- Add to Groups/Workflows
- Engage with Explorers
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The Gloo Messaging app is designed for church and ministry leaders to communicate on the go. Now you can stay connected with your people through meaningful, real-time conversations, respond to prayer requests, send one-to-many Broadcasts, simplify contact management, assign conversations to team members, add people to Groups or Workflows, and engage with Explorers without missing a message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Scannable at 4.1 against Gloo Messaging's 2.3. Scannable also leads on ratings volume (513 vs 61). Gloo Messaging's advantage is review sentiment (10% vs 0%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Scannable holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scannable has 513 ratings behind it against 61, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Scannable's written reviews are positive against 10% of Gloo Messaging's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Scannable ships an update every 11 days, Gloo Messaging every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scannable | Gloo Messaging |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (513 ratings) — better | 2.3 (61 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 9.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 513 — better | 61 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiroya Hinomori | Gloo LLC |
Customer experience
Scannable
Gloo Messaging
In-app purchases
Scannable
No in-app purchases
Gloo Messaging
No in-app purchases
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