OpenAirScan vs Karakeep App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenAirScan
This app connects to any network-enabled scanner using the ESCL (AirScan) protocol. It allows you to create scans in various formats, working with most scanners from the last decade. It is designed to be vendor-agnostic.
- Connects to ESCL/AirScan scanners
- Vendor-agnostic compatibility
- Supports various scan formats
- Works with network-enabled scanners
- Compatible with most modern scanners
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OpenAirScan connects to any ESCL(a.k.a. AirScan)-capable scanner on your network and creates scans in various formats. It is entirely vendor-agnostic and should work with nearly all network-enabled scanners built in the past ten years.
Karakeep App
Effortlessly save links, notes, and images with automatic AI-powered tagging for quick retrieval. Search through all your saved content, including link contents, at blazing fast speeds. Organize your saved items into custom lists and share content from any app.
- Automatic AI tagging
- Full-text search
- Custom lists
- Sharing extension
- Save links, notes, and images
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Content (including link contents) are indexed for blazing fast full text search. Organize you items into custom lists. Sharing extension to hoard items from any other apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Karakeep App at 4.6 against OpenAirScan's 2.7. Karakeep App also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 50%) and ratings volume (43 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Karakeep App holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Karakeep App has 43 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of OpenAirScan's written reviews are positive against 71% of Karakeep App's.
OpenAirScan ships an update every 3 months, Karakeep App every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OpenAirScan | Karakeep App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (43 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Leo Wehrfritz | Mohamed Bassem |
Customer experience
OpenAirScan
Karakeep App
In-app purchases
OpenAirScan
No in-app purchases
Karakeep App
No in-app purchases
