ScanBox vs ScanBox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScanBox
Digitize your documents easily with this app. It recognizes text within scanned images and converts them into editable documents, improving efficiency and saving time. Perfect for receipts, contracts, letters, and more.
- Accurate OCR text recognition
- Editable text conversion
- Automatic document edge detection and cropping
- Save scans as customizable PDFs
- Batch OCR processing
- Local processing for privacy
Read full descriptionHide full description
New choice for digitize your documents. With ScanBox, you can recognize text within scanned images and generate your documents with just a few taps on your phone, which can help improve efficiency and save time. Whether you need to digitize receipts, contracts, letters, or any other document, ScanBox has got you covered. Key features: - With accurately OCR function, ScanBox can recognize text within scanned images and convert it into editable text. This means you can easily copy and paste text from the scanned documents, making it easy to translate, edit and share the content to what ever you needed. - Automatically detect the edges of the document and crop it accordingly, ensuring that the scanned output is clean and professional-looking. - Save your scanned documents as PDF files. ScanBox also allows you to customize the PDF output by adjusting settings such as image resolution, color mode, page number. - Batch OCR supported. This feature can be especially useful for users who need to process a large number of image documents. With this feature, you can easily convert large volumes of image into a editable text, making it easier to store, search, and share. ScanBox is free to use, no scan limitation and most of its features will only run locally on your device. We take your privacy and security very seriously, so the app will not transmit any text, images, or files you input. All output content is only saved locally on your device. If you have any suggestions please contact us with email (hello@boring.cool).
ScanBox
Read full descriptionHide full description
Scan only the text you want, frame it with a resizable scan box, tap once, and copy it. No wall of text to clean up. Works on camera, photos and screenshots, entirely on your iPhone. ScanBox gives you a scan box you can drag and resize. Put it over a price, a serial number, a single paragraph or a QR code, tap once, and just that is ready to use. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.3 • QR codes and barcodes: ScanBox reads codes inside the scan box, from the camera and from photos. Each code gets a Copy button, and web links get a tap-to-Open button • Search your history, ignoring case and accents • Tap phone numbers, links, addresses and dates in your results to call, open, map or add them • Edit captured text before you copy it; your edits are saved to history • Read aloud with the on-device system voice • Share sheet: choose "ScanBox" from Photos, Files or Safari images to read the text and copy it all, without opening the app. Scans from the share sheet are not saved to history • Shortcuts: the "Extract Text from Image" action (iOS 16 or later) • A simpler 3-step first-run guide TWO WAYS TO SCAN Camera: point at a menu, label, receipt, book page, sign or QR code. Move and resize the scan box to frame exactly what you need. Pinch to zoom from 1x to 6x and switch on the torch in dim light. Photos: import any picture or screenshot from your library. The same scan box appears over the image (it starts on the whole image) so you can narrow it to one line before you capture. WHY SCANBOX • Scan box: drag, resize and capture only what is inside it • Image to text from Photos and screenshots • QR code and barcode reading • Live camera scanning with torch and pinch-to-zoom (1x to 6x) • 13 OCR languages: English (US/UK), French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Russian and Ukrainian (these four need iOS 16 or later) • Optional auto-copy: turn it on in Settings to send text to your clipboard the moment it is read • Fast Mode for quick, everyday scans • Copy or share the result to Messages, Mail, Notes or any app • Local scan history with search, swipe to delete and Clear All • Haptics you can switch off • Tiny download - no bloat PRIVATE BY DESIGN ScanBox collects nothing. There is no account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics, no third-party SDKs and no network requests. Text is recognised on your device with Apple's Vision framework, and read aloud with the on-device system voice. Photos and camera frames are never saved or uploaded, and your history stays in the app's private storage on your iPhone. It works in airplane mode. GREAT FOR Receipts, menus, product labels, ingredient lists, serial numbers, price tags, business cards, street signs, whiteboards, book passages, neatly handwritten notes, QR codes, barcodes, and text inside screenshots - anything you would otherwise retype by hand. Free. No subscription. No sign-in.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ScanBox at 100% against ScanBox's 0%. ScanBox's advantage is in-app purchases (none 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. ScanBox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ScanBox asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | ScanBox | ScanBox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qingdao Quchuang Technology Co., Ltd. | Neha Rathore |
Customer experience
ScanBox
ScanBox
In-app purchases
ScanBox
- ScanBox PRO - Lifetime$9.99
ScanBox
No in-app purchases









