Comparison

PDF Scanner vs Docusy

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

Head to head
About

PDF Scanner

Transform your device into a powerful portable scanner. Instantly digitize documents, receipts, and notes into PDF, JPG, or TXT formats. Add electronic signatures and share your scans effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Scan documents and photos to PDF, JPG, or TXT
  • Scan multiple pages into one document
  • OCR text recognition
  • Add electronic signatures
  • Share scanned documents easily
  • Upload to cloud services
Features
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Looking for a scanner that you can take anywhere? Doc Scanner will turn your device into the most powerful digital office and assist you become more productive in your work as well as daily life. Download this scanner app absolutely for free to instantly scan, save, and share any document in PDF, JPG or TXT formats. Go paperless with our fast PDF scanner – store all your documents in a neat mobile office right on your phone! DOCUMENT SCANNER This small yet powerful free scanner app is a must-have for students and anyone who is involved in a small business: accountants, realtors, managers, or lawyers. Scan anything you need, including receipts, contracts, paper notes, fax papers, books, and store your scans as multipage PDF or JPEG files. Would you like to keep your whole office in your pocket in order to increase your productivity at work? Use scanner pro features to handle your paperwork with ease. Say goodbye to a big and not so beautiful copy machines and get this ultra-fast scanner app for free now! INNOVATIVE PDF SCANNER – Scan documents and photos to PDF, JPG, or TXT – Easily scan multiple pages into one single document – Recognize text from any scannable object with OCR – Put your electronic signature on any documents EASY DOCUMENT SHARING – Scan documents and share them in just a few taps – Print contracts and invoices right from the scanning app – Share and upload scanned documents to cloud services like Dropbox, Evernote, or Google Drive LIMITLESS ACCESS MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION – You can subscribe to receive unlimited access to all app features – Subscriptions are billed weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually at the rate based on the subscription plan they use. – Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase – Subscription renews automatically 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. The price depends on the plan you select. – Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after making a purchase. – Any unused portion of the free trial will be forfeited when the user buys a subscription

About

Docusy

Transform your device into a powerful document management tool. Scan, annotate, sign, and export professional PDFs offline. Handle everything from leases to receipts with ease.

Highlights
  • Scan documents with camera
  • Annotate and edit text with OCR
  • Draw and save multiple signatures
  • Combine multiple pages into one PDF
  • Export as PDF or image
  • Offline functionality
  • No watermarks or ads
Features
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Docusy is the iPhone scanner that edits what it reads. Tap any word in a scanned document and change it — in 17 languages. Sign, merge, search, share. Nothing leaves your device. EDIT SCANNED TEXT Scan a document and Docusy detects every word. Tap to correct, replace, or rewrite. Edits match your document's font and colour so changes look native, not pasted on. Works in every supported language, including Arabic and Persian right-to-left. READ THE DETAILS Scan a receipt, invoice, business card, or ID and Docusy pulls out the details — totals, dates, names, and numbers. Export them as CSV, or as Word and Excel documents where detected tables become real rows. Docusy tells a receipt from an invoice and sorts your library by type, so the document you need is one tap away. Add a detected date straight to your calendar. TRANSLATE ON THE PAGE Read a document in another language. Docusy translates the text into any language your device supports, right where it sits, and flips between the original and the translation with a tap. On your device, private as ever. SIGN AND SEND Draw your signature once. Place it on any PDF in seconds. Save multiple signatures for personal and business use. PROTECT WHAT MATTERS Lock Docusy with Face ID or your passcode, and export password-protected, encrypted PDFs. Your documents stay yours — stored safely on your device, by design. SCAN ANYTHING Scan paper documents with your camera, or import PDFs and photos from Files and Photos. Merge up to 6 PDFs into one in a single tap. Export as PDF, image, Word, Excel, CSV, or ZIP — print, AirDrop, email, or share with any app. BUILT INTO FILES Sign or edit any PDF straight from the iOS Files share sheet — no need to open the app first. Docusy adds "Add Signature" and "Edit as PDF" as one-tap actions wherever your documents live. SPOTLIGHT, SIRI & SHORTCUTS Find any scanned document from your home screen — Spotlight searches the text inside every scan. Open, search, or scan with Siri or a Shortcut. Build your own document automations. SEARCH EVERY DOCUMENT Find a name, a date, an address — Docusy searches the text inside every scanned PDF, instantly, offline. Pin the documents you reach for most. iPHONE, iPAD, MAC, APPLE VISION One purchase, every Apple device. A redesigned iPad and Mac layout — with a sidebar and a rethought PDF editor — makes the most of the bigger screen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No accounts. No servers. No internet required. We can't see your documents because we don't have them. NO ADS. NO WATERMARKS. Export clean PDFs. No "Made with Docusy" stamp on your scans. 17 LANGUAGES Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Full right-to-left layout for Arabic and Persian. Scan a receipt. Sign a tenancy agreement. Fix a typo in a form. Archive a contract. Docusy handles documents the way Apple apps should — on your device, in your language, respecting your privacy.

Screenshots

PDF Scanner4 screens
Docusy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Docusy at 100% against PDF Scanner's 25%. Docusy also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). PDF Scanner's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (13 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per 7 days and Docusy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PDF Scanner holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of PDF Scanner's written reviews are positive against 100% of Docusy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Scanner ships an update every 7 months, Docusy every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PDF Scanner versus Docusy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF ScannerDocusy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOLEG CHEBULAEVWhiteLake

Customer experience

PDF Scanner

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Docusy

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PDF Scanner

Subscriptions4
  • Pro (7 days)$4.497 Days
  • Pro (1 month)7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro (3 month)7 Days trial$19.493 Months
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  • Pro (1 year)7 Days trial$28.991 Year
3 purchases

Docusy

Subscriptions3
  • All access$0.997 Days
  • Docusy Pro – Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Docusy Pro – Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is PDF Scanner free?
PDF Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Docusy free?
Docusy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PDF Scanner or Docusy?
PDF Scanner is rated higher. PDF Scanner averages 4.5 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Docusy averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do PDF Scanner or Docusy have ads?
Neither PDF Scanner nor Docusy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PDF Scanner or Docusy?
PDF Scanner ships an update every 7 months, and Docusy every 3 weeks. Most recently, PDF Scanner was updated on October 6, 2026 and Docusy on October 10, 2026.

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