Comparison

MDScan + OCR vs ScanGo

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

Head to head
About

MDScan + OCR

Scan documents using your phone's camera, enhance them with various filters, and export them as PDFs or JPGs. This app offers OCR capabilities for text conversion and seamless integration with cloud services for easy sharing.

Highlights
  • Scan documents with phone camera
  • Enhance image quality with filters
  • OCR for text conversion
  • Export to PDF and JPG
  • Cloud service integration
  • Batch scanning mode
  • Process pages later (spy mode)
Features
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All image processing is done only on your device! No documents will go online without your desire! Take a picture with your camera, edit it using the many enhancing features, save into a preferred format and share on social media, email, cloud services. MDScan is a mobile doc scanner that allows you to scan any type of document using your phone camera. This could be receipts, text pages, coupons, posters, magazine articles, invoices, pictures, and any printed documents. How does it work? 1. Take a picture with your camera 2. Choose an editing option (you can select “unenhanced”) 3. Easily adjust the scan area using the 4 borders on the page 4. Confirm the scan to the set dimensions (ready presets available) 5. Choose filters to enhance the quality (optional) 6. Save and Export into a PDF or JPG 7. Share on Social Media, Email, Cloud Servers More detailed information: This mobile scanner is perfect to use on the go - anywhere and anytime. With a variety of presets, MDScan guarantees great experience and its automatized functions are suitable for the busiest users looking to scan PDF documents with their mobile device’s camera. If you are looking for a mobile scanning application that automatically detects borders, corrects distortion, and equalizes brightness to create clear, legible documents, you are definitely on the right page. Speaking of great user experience and automatic functions, the MDScan integrates seamlessly with cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox. In addition, you can send your scanned documents with email services, Facebook (Messenger), Twitter, and other apps if installed on your device. This scanner app shines in terms of uploading but has no second when it comes to converting pictures taken from your phone's camera into legitimate documents you can use for business purposes. With the Mobile Doc Scanner (MDScan) + OCR, you can now add multiple pages easier than ever. Whenever you want to scan a new page, you just need to press the caption button and you’re all set! All of the scanned documents and pages are stored and available under the “My Scans” field. You can also try the Batch mode, which allows you to scan multiple pages within seconds! There is a feature called “Process page laters (spy mode)” that allows you to scan as many documents as you want to without facing any processing delays. Of course, you can work with a photo or document that is already saved in your file system. Whether a PDF file or a regular picture, you can use the same editing options as if you just scanned a picture with your camera. Another great feature this document scanner app offers is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which stands for the electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. Whether scanned from a PDF file or a photo you just took, this new version of Mobile Doc Scanner (MDScan) + OCR guarantees fast performance, user-friendly interface, and professional results. Let’s sum up what you get downloading the MDScan: * Convert any image into a PDF format. * Document edge detection and perspective correction. * Improved image quality * Quick scan and multi-page documents * Share easily and upload instantly User satisfaction is our main goal and if you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve the Mobile Doc Scanner (MDScan) + OCR, contact us at our support email. We do our best to respond as soon as possible!

About

ScanGo

Easily scan documents, certificates, credit cards, and receipts into high-quality PDFs or images. Extract text using OCR, organize with folders, and share via various cloud services or directly. Protect your scans with a passcode.

Highlights
  • Scan documents and photos to PDF
  • OCR text extraction
  • Edit and enhance scans
  • Organize with folders
  • Share via cloud services
  • Passcode protection
Features
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WHAT IS ScanGo? ScanGo is a little, simple, flexible, easy-to-use app with kinds of features satisfying different situations in your iPhone. It allows you to scan documents, certificates, credit cards, invoices, receipts, tickets and any paper with high quality image & PDF output. Also, you can extract text by OCR function from any scans just by one tap. It is also a camera scanner with concise, efficient user interface whose main tone is black & white with teal & chrome yellow embellished throughout the app. HOW TO SCAN DOCS? - Scan everything by one click, of course you can choose to scan from Photos or Camera. - Edit docs after scanning immediately, including add, rotate, adjust, reorder and delete pages. - Rotate, Crop and Adjust filter to get high quality scans. - Provided five filter modes to enhance your scans - Original, B&W 1, B&W 2, Color, Grayscale. What’s more, each filter can be adjusted for its own Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness. HOW TO MANAGE DOCS? - The Recents module on home page shows your recently added docs, which helps to find them faster. - Add folders and sub-folders to manage scanned docs. - Rename folders and documents to make them more distinguishable. - Important and urgent documents can be Starred for faster access. - Search function helps to find the doc you need from a dizzying array. - Every folder, doc and page can be shared with email, Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote etc. or Wifi directly. - Save scans as JPEG to Photos. - Move/Copy/Delete docs and pages. - Print scans directly within app once you connect to a Printer. - Fax scans directly if you have Fax Pro app installed. AFRAID OF DATA LOSS? ScanGo supports syncing data with iCloud. MAKE THE APP MORE EFFICIENT CONVENIENT - Turn on the camera immediately whenever you open the app. HANDY - Save scans to Photos automatically. EASY - Auto edge detection and enhancement. SIMPLE - Share docs and folders in default PDF size. SECURE - Protect your documents with passcode. MORE QUESTIONS? If you have any problems with ScanGo, please email us at scango@beesoft.io, we’ll help to figure it out asap.

Screenshots

MDScan + OCR4 screens
ScanGo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ScanGo at Free against MDScan + OCR's $4.99. ScanGo also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 71%). MDScan + OCR's advantage is chart position (#65 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

ScanGo is free to download; MDScan + OCR costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for MDScan + OCR against 4.8 for ScanGo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 138 and 168 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of MDScan + OCR's written reviews are positive against 88% of ScanGo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MDScan + OCR ships an update monthly, ScanGo every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
MDScan + OCR versus ScanGo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMDScan + OCRScanGo
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (138 ratings)4.8 (168 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings138168 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#65 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMikhail KuznetsovBeesoft Apps

Customer experience

MDScan + OCR

All ratings138 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral23.5%
Negative5.9%

ScanGo

All ratings168 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative10.2%

In-app purchases

None

MDScan + OCR

No in-app purchases

None

ScanGo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MDScan + OCR free?
MDScan + OCR costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ScanGo free?
ScanGo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MDScan + OCR or ScanGo?
ScanGo is rated higher. MDScan + OCR averages 4.7 out of 5 from 138 ratings, while ScanGo averages 4.8 from 168 ratings.
Do MDScan + OCR or ScanGo have ads?
Neither MDScan + OCR nor ScanGo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MDScan + OCR or ScanGo?
MDScan + OCR ships an update monthly, and ScanGo every 5 weeks. Most recently, MDScan + OCR was updated on September 26, 2026 and ScanGo on September 23, 2026.

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