Comparison

Docusy vs PDF Scanner AI

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

Head to head
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.

About

PDF Scanner AI

Features
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PDF Scanner AI is a document scanner app for your iPhone. Scan documents to PDF, clean up blurry or shadowy photos, fill and sign forms, and translate them. Made for receipts, tax forms, leases, school forms, and notes. SCAN TO PDF • Document scanner: point your camera at a page. The edges are found and the page is straightened for you. Scan many pages into one PDF. • Image to PDF (JPG to PDF): turn photos from your photo library into one PDF. Pages are straightened, and you can drag the 4 corners. • ID card scanner (front and back on one page), book scanner, and QR and barcode scanner. FILTERS AND PAGE FIXES (NEW) When you scan to PDF, give each page a look from 9 filters, like Auto, B&W, Gray, and Perfect, which evens out shadows and makes the paper white. Adjust brightness and contrast, and retake, crop, or rotate a page before you save. The Eraser wipes stains and marks off scanned pages. BLURRY PHOTO IN, CLEAN PDF OUT Layout PDF reads your page with AI and rebuilds it: • Remove Background: the text is retyped in the same layout on a clean white page. • Sharpen Text: your real page (paper, colors, signatures, handwriting) with blurry print made sharp. • Keep Background: your original photo with searchable text. Works best on printed pages. AI TEMPLATES (NEW) Snap a handwritten estimate, notes, or a resume, and AI types it up: Estimate / Invoice, Resume, Typed Notes, Meeting Notes, Recipe Card, or Clean Document. It even flags totals that don't add up. Save it as a PDF (most templates also save as Word). FILL AND SIGN WITHOUT A PRINTER Add text and your signature (drawn with your finger) to any PDF. Fill in a school form or sign a lease, then send it right away. FIX A TYPO WITHOUT RESCANNING Scan with Layout PDF, tap Edit text, and change a line. The page is rebuilt in place. IMAGE TO TEXT (OCR) Text Recognition reads the words in your photo in 24 languages. Copy them, search them, or save them as a TXT file, and get a searchable PDF too. Needs an internet connection. TRANSLATE PDFS AND SCANS Translate a scan, a PDF with text, or a Word or TXT file into any of 24 languages, like Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Save the translation as TXT or Word. PDF TO WORD Turn a scan into an editable Word file (.docx). Tables, headings, bold text, and alignment carry over. BILL REMINDERS (NEW) Scan a bill to track it and get reminded before the due date. See what's due this month, mark bills as paid, and get weekly and monthly summaries. OPEN THE PDFS YOU ALREADY HAVE Open a PDF from Mail, Files, Google Drive, or your browser, search for any word (even in photos of printed pages), and use every tool on it. Save any document to the Files app in one tap. PDF TOOLS AND SHARING See your pages two to a row and drag them into order, add pages to any document, or delete one. Compress a PDF to email it, merge PDFs, split out the pages you need, and lock a PDF with a password. Share as PDF, Word, TXT, images, or a ZIP file. Compress, merge, and split run on your iPhone, so those files are not uploaded. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: 3 scans a week, up to 5 pages each (a short ad adds 3 more pages). After that, a short ad unlocks each extra scan. AI templates read 1 page. You get 1 free try of Translate or AI bill reading. Adding bills by hand is always free, and your scans have no watermark. Premium: unlimited scans up to 20 pages each, no ads, the Perfect filter, Translate, AI templates up to 20 pages, and AI bill reading (up to 30 bills a day). Premium is a subscription (weekly, monthly, or yearly). Cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Docusy4 screens
PDF Scanner AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Docusy at none against PDF Scanner AI's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Docusy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and PDF Scanner AI sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Docusy ships an update every 3 weeks, PDF Scanner AI fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Docusy versus PDF Scanner AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocusyPDF Scanner AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWhiteLakePSSD Limited

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Docusy

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

PDF Scanner AI

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Premium$2.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
  • Annual Premium$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Docusy free?
Docusy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF Scanner AI free?
PDF Scanner AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Docusy or PDF Scanner AI have ads?
PDF Scanner AI shows ads; Docusy does not.
Which is updated more often, Docusy or PDF Scanner AI?
Docusy ships an update every 3 weeks, and PDF Scanner AI fortnightly. Most recently, Docusy was updated on October 24, 2026 and PDF Scanner AI on October 14, 2026.

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