Comparison

Scan to Excel vs SemanticMarker

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

Head to head
About

Scan to Excel

Easily scan QR and barcodes and directly save the data into an Excel spreadsheet. Customize your scans with geolocations, timestamps, quantities, and custom fields for efficient inventory, attendance, or library management.

Highlights
  • Scan QR and barcodes
  • Save data to Excel
  • Customizable scan schema
  • Append geolocations and timestamps
  • Support for external scanners
  • Google account sign-in
Features
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Scan to Excel allows you to easily scan QR and barcodes and store codes in Excel. Looking to keep track of the inventory or your shop, warehouse or library? Need to monitor attendance of your classes, events and meetings? Look no further than Scan to Sheets, the app that allows you to quickly and easily scan QR codes and barcodes directly to Excel. Supports a large variety of formats and external scanners connected via bluetooth or USB. Securely sign in with your Google account or connect to your public spreadsheets without sign in. You can customize your schema to append geolocations, timestamps, quantities, and custom text and numeric fields and labels to your scans. -------------------------------------------------------- By using this app, you agree to Apple’s Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SemanticMarker

Features
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For summer 2026, we have added NFC functionality. You can write an NFC tag with your guest feeding URL. Anyone with a smart phone can then scan the tag and run your guest feeding site. The Bluetooth BLE discovery has been cleaned up to you won't see 2 names for the same device - after you have renamed one of your feeders or clickers. This is a limitation of iPhone where the bluetooth remembers a device the first time you "discover" it. So if you change its name (through our messages or BLE) the iPhone still thinks it's the old name. But the advertisement has the new name. So I figured out how to cache the new name and use it instead of the old (remembered) name. Hopefully this cleans up things. Support for 26.3. 2026 is the year of IoT control for my #Abilities users. Kona Currents, LLC offers a unique Remote Education and IoT processing app for creation, collection, processing, search, and messaging of optical visual markers we call Semantic Marker (R). An innovative text and optical search engine is included, along with an API for processing optical labels, barcodes and two-dimensional codes. These optical image and data files are downloadable for internal and external use. This app interacts through published API's with Cloud Computing services. The app will communicate via MQTT messaging among a suite of IoT devices, as well as using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) directly to devices, which is especially useful to set credentials such as WIFI passwords for the IoT devices (ie. ESP 32 devices). See SemanticMarker.org for more on the abilities use. - We have one user using Eye Tracking to send messages to reward his service dog over our IoT framework! #Ability Now for Summer 2025, is the support for Space and Time of your Semantic Marker(R). This includes GPS and Time that is extracted from the meta-data of your markers. The Map will now show the markers in their geospatial location. See the map above where the optical visual markers, which represent music artifacts, are placed at where the concert was recorded. The date of the events are also tagged - and stored in the photo for sharing outside the Semantic Marker(R) framework. Now think of real-estate or other location based artifacts: tag with a Semantic Marker(R) and the marker is much more valuable. https://semanticmarker.org/users/common/MusicMatrixSM.png

Screenshots

Scan to Excel4 screens
SemanticMarker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Scan to Excel at Free against SemanticMarker's $9.99. SemanticMarker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Scan to Excel is free to download; SemanticMarker costs $9.99 up front. Scan to Excel sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. SemanticMarker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scan to Excel ships an update every 5 months, SemanticMarker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Scan to Excel versus SemanticMarker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScan to ExcelSemanticMarker
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating3.3 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB281 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobile FirstScott Moody

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Scan to Excel

Subscriptions1
  • Starter Plan Monthly$6.991 Month
None

SemanticMarker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scan to Excel free?
Scan to Excel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SemanticMarker free?
SemanticMarker costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scan to Excel or SemanticMarker have ads?
Neither Scan to Excel nor SemanticMarker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scan to Excel or SemanticMarker?
Scan to Excel ships an update every 5 months, and SemanticMarker every 6 weeks. Most recently, Scan to Excel was updated on September 29, 2026 and SemanticMarker on October 6, 2026.

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