Blazed vs Archives Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blazed
This app simplifies kiln logging for potters, offering accurate tracking of firing progress and collaborative features. Visualize temperature and cone movements with graphs and compare past firings. Supports both electric and gas kilns, manual and computer-controlled.
- Kiln setup and management
- Electric and gas kiln support
- Track cone packs and sensors
- Visualize firing progress with graphs
- Collaborative firing logs
- Compare previous firings
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Welcome to Blazed. Say hello to your new firing companion. - Blazed makes kiln logs easy, accurate, and collaborative. • • • Kilns: • Your firings start with your kiln. Setup your kiln once, and you’re always ready to fire. • Don’t use a gas kiln? No problem! Blazed supports electric kilns. Both manual and computer controlled. • • • • • • • • Firings: • Select your kiln, and you’re ready to blaze. • Track your Cone Packs, Thermocouples, Gauges, Burners, Dampers, and Ports • Easy to use! We’ve setup kiln logging to reflect what you see. • Visualize your firing with graphs. We’ve plotted your temperature readings and cone movements so you can see how your firing is progressing. You can even compare previous firings. • Firing with friends? With Blazed, you can collaborate on the firing. Take a log from your device, and everyone will see the kilns progress • • • • • And more… Let’s Blazed. Privacy Policy: https://blazed.app/#privacypolicy Terms And Conditions: https://blazed.app/#termsandconditions
Archives Scanner
Transform your physical notebooks into a searchable digital library. Automatically detect and correct pages, recognize handwriting for instant search, and organize your content into custom archives. Sync your digitized notes across all your devices for easy access.
- Automatic page detection and correction
- On-device handwriting recognition
- Organize scans into custom archives
- Bookmark pages with notes
- Sync across devices via iCloud
- Export to PDF (Pro feature)
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Archives — Digitize your notebooks Turn your notebooks, sketchbooks, cookbooks, and journals into a searchable digital library. Point your camera at a page and Archives captures it with crisp, document-quality results — then keeps every page organized, searchable, and synced across your devices. Page detection with auto-correction Automatic edge detection finds your page and straightens the perspective, so every scan comes out flat and clean — even when you shoot it at an angle. Search everything, including handwriting On-device text recognition reads your handwritten notes, so you can find any page in seconds. Works across 25+ languages, with matches highlighted right on the page. Organize into archives Group your scans into notebooks and browse your whole collection at a glance. Jump straight to the page you need, whether it's recipe 12 from Cookbook 2022 or a sketch buried in your field notes. Bookmarks with notes Flag your favorite pages and add notes to keep track of what matters — recipes to try, sketches to revisit, ideas to come back to. Export to PDF (Pro) Turn any notebook into a multi-page PDF, then share it, save it to Files, or send it to iCloud Drive. Sync across devices With iCloud integration, your library stays up to date on every iPhone and iPad, automatically. Your notebooks, finally searchable. Download Archives and start digitizing today. -- Privacy Policy: https://and.notion.site/Archives-Scanner-Privacy-Policy-37deb9a83adb80718c65d672a46d9fff EULA: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Archives Scanner at 100% against Blazed's 0%. Archives Scanner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). Blazed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Archives Scanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Blazed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Archives Scanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blazed has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Blazed's written reviews are positive against 100% of Archives Scanner's.
Blazed ships an update every 6 weeks, Archives Scanner every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blazed | Archives Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stoned Studio LLC | Andriy Gordiyenko |
Customer experience
Blazed
Archives Scanner
In-app purchases
Blazed
No in-app purchases
Archives Scanner
- Archives Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Archives Pro Annual$29.991 Year
- Archives Pro Lifetime$49.99








