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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Turn paper into clean, shareable PDFs in seconds. CamScan finds the edges of your page, straightens it and saves it as a sharp PDF, with no watermark and no limit. SCAN ANYTHING • Receipts, invoices, contracts, forms, notes, letters and ID copies • Automatic edge detection and perspective correction • Several pages in one document ORGANIZE AND FIND • All your documents in one clear grid • Search by name, or simply say it with voice search • Rename, lock or delete in a tap SHARE AND PRINT • Export as PDF and share by Mail, Messages, AirDrop or any app • Print directly from your iPhone or iPad • Import PDFs from Files or from a web link KEEP IT PRIVATE • Lock sensitive documents with Face ID or Touch ID • Your documents stay on your device MAKE IT YOURS • Home Screen widgets to scan in one tap and see your latest files • Light and dark mode CamScan is free and supported by ads. You can remove ads for one hour by watching a short video. Questions or ideas? Write to contact@devbox.tn

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 50%. CamScan also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). PDF Scanner & Doc Maker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CamScan versus PDF Scanner & Doc Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamScanPDF Scanner & Doc Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevboxDivine Barbany

Customer experience

CamScan

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PDF Scanner & Doc Maker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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.
Do CamScan or PDF Scanner & Doc Maker have ads?
CamScan shows ads; PDF Scanner & Doc Maker does not.

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