Paper Scanner vs Leaf Bookmarks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paper Scanner
Digitize books and notes quickly by converting text from photos, live video, or existing images. Save, edit, and share your extracted text, or export it to word processing applications.
- Digitize books and notes
- Extract text from photos
- Extract text from live video
- Extract text from gallery images
- Edit and save extracted text
- Share digitized text
- Export to word processing apps
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Turn printed pages and photos into editable text. Scan, correct, copy and share your notes from one app. No time to retype a book page, a handout or a recipe? Paper Scanner reads the text for you, so you can paste it anywhere in seconds. THREE WAYS TO SCAN • Live: point your camera at printed text and grab it straight from the camera view • Photo: take a picture of a page, a book or your notes • Gallery: pick an existing image or screenshot and extract its text EDIT, COPY AND SHARE • Fix mistakes and format your text in the built-in editor • Copy everything to the clipboard with one tap • Share it to Mail, Messages, Notes or any app you use • Every scan is saved in one list, ready to reopen and edit PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Text recognition runs on your iPhone • Your notes are stored on your device • Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID Works best with clear, printed text in Latin-alphabet languages such as English, Spanish and Portuguese. FREE TO TRY Your first 3 scans are free. Go Premium for unlimited scans with a monthly or yearly subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/6de79e3f-7694-4778-ae08-6ab1ea28bac8
Leaf Bookmarks
Organize and revisit saved links with rich details and AI-powered features. Transform your saved content into a usable library for research, inspiration, or personal knowledge.
- Save links from app or share sheet
- Organize with folders and tags
- Add summaries, thumbnails, and descriptions
- Quickly reopen saved links
- AI-powered summaries and suggestions
- Create a personal knowledge library
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Leaf Bookmarks is your personal space for links worth keeping. Every day you come across articles, videos, products, ideas, recipes, references, and notes you may want to revisit. The hard part is not saving them. It is finding them again later, remembering why they mattered, and keeping everything from becoming another messy pile of tabs, bookmarks or notes. Leaf helps you turn saved links into a library that is easier to browse, understand, and use. Save links from the app or the share sheet, organize them with folders and tags, add notes, customize thumbnails, and choose how your cards should look. Leaf also works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so your saved links stay close wherever you are working or reading. With Leaf Pro, your library becomes even easier to maintain. AI-generated summaries, smart tag suggestions, and folder recommendations help every saved link land in the right place with less effort. What you can do with Leaf: • Save links from the app or the share sheet. • Organize web links with folders and tags. • Add custom thumbnails so links are easier to recognize. • Customize card layouts for the way you read. • Add notes, descriptions, and summaries. • Use Leaf Pro AI to summarize and organize links faster. • Enjoy a link library that works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Leaf is useful for reading later, collecting research, organizing products, planning trips, saving inspiration, or building your own personal knowledge library. Your links, now, organized with Leaf. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://leafbookmarks.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://leafbookmarks.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Leaf Bookmarks at 100% against Paper Scanner's 0%. Leaf Bookmarks also leads on monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Paper Scanner's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Paper Scanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Leaf Bookmarks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Paper Scanner ships an update every 3 weeks, Leaf Bookmarks weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paper Scanner | Leaf Bookmarks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Andras Molnar | Tomas Frechou |
Customer experience
Paper Scanner
Leaf Bookmarks
In-app purchases
Paper Scanner
- ScanToText Monthly Package3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- ScanToText Annual Package3 Days trial$19.991 Year
Leaf Bookmarks
- Leaf Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Leaf Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year









