Comparison

CamScan vs PDF Scanner & Doc Maker

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

Head to head
About

CamScan

Easily digitize paper documents using your phone's camera. Convert receipts, notes, and invoices into clear, sharp PDF files without watermarks. Share your scanned documents via email or social media.

Highlights
  • Digitize documents with phone camera
  • Scan receipts, notes, invoices, and more
  • Smart cropping and auto-enhancing
  • Share documents as PDF files
  • No watermark on scans
Features
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Convert images to PDF in a simple tap. Download it for FREE! No watermark in scanned documents. CamScan helps you scan, store, and share scanned documents. Features: *Digitize Documents Just use your phone camera to scan and digitize all kinds of paper documents: receipts, notes, invoices, whiteboard discussions, business cards, certificates, etc. *Scan Quality Smart cropping and auto enhancing ensures the texts and graphics in scanned documents are clear and sharp with premium colors and resolutions. *Share PDF Files Easily share documents in PDF format with friends via various ways: post on social media, send attachment or document download link through email.

About

PDF Scanner & Doc Maker

Scan, edit, and sign documents directly from your phone. This app offers OCR text recognition, PDF reading with book mode, and various conversion tools. It prioritizes privacy by processing everything on your device and works offline.

Highlights
  • Camera scanning with auto edge detection
  • OCR text recognition
  • PDF reader with book mode
  • Handwritten signature signing
  • PDF conversion to Word and text
  • Offline processing and privacy
Features
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PDF Scanner is the free all-in-one app to scan documents, read books, edit PDF files and sign contracts — straight from your phone. No subscription, no watermark, and it works offline. SCANNING • Camera scanning with automatic edge detection and deskew • Multi-page scanning for books, contracts and ID cards • Instant export to PDF or Word OCR TEXT RECOGNITION • Arabic, English and French • Turn images into editable, copyable text • Make scanned files searchable while they keep their exact look PDF READER FOR BOOKS • Full-screen book mode with horizontal page turning • Right-to-left paging for Arabic books • Remembers the last page you read in every book • Night mode, pinch to zoom, text search, read aloud EDIT AND SIGN • Sign documents with your own handwritten signature • Add text anywhere on the page • Highlight, draw freehand, and white out private information A COMPLETE FREE PDF TOOLKIT • Merge, split and compress • Convert: images to PDF, PDF to images, PDF to Word, PDF to text • Organise pages: reorder, rotate, duplicate, delete, insert • Crop, resize, page numbers, headers and footers • Watermark, background, and password protection PRIVACY • Everything is processed on your device — your documents never leave your phone • Lock the app with Face ID • Works entirely offline

Screenshots

CamScan4 screens
PDF Scanner & Doc Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CamScan at 100% against PDF Scanner & Doc Maker's 0%. CamScan also leads on rating (3.6 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). PDF Scanner & Doc Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). On price, ads, monetization model 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. PDF Scanner & Doc Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CamScan asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CamScan holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CamScan has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of CamScan's written reviews are positive against 0% of PDF Scanner & Doc Maker's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CamScan versus PDF Scanner & Doc Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamScanPDF Scanner & Doc Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (9 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 30 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevboxDivine Barbany

Customer experience

CamScan

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PDF Scanner & Doc Maker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

CamScan

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PDF Scanner & Doc Maker

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is CamScan free?
CamScan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PDF Scanner & Doc Maker free?
PDF Scanner & Doc Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CamScan or PDF Scanner & Doc Maker?
CamScan is rated higher. CamScan averages 3.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while PDF Scanner & Doc Maker averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do CamScan or PDF Scanner & Doc Maker have ads?
Neither CamScan nor PDF Scanner & Doc Maker shows ads.

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