Comparison

Scanner Pro vs TotalScan

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

Head to head
About

Scanner Pro

Transform your device into a powerful scanner for documents, receipts, and IDs. Convert images to PDFs, organize your files with smart features, and share them easily. Includes OCR and QR code scanning for enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • High-quality document scanning
  • Convert to PDF
  • OCR and full-text search
  • QR code scanning
  • Automatic border detection and image correction
  • Cloud storage integration
  • Edit and annotate scans
Features
Currently charting
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Scanner Pro is a professional document scanner that turns your iPhone or iPad into a portable scan-to-PDF tool. Scan agreements, receipts, IDs, books, and more — Scanner Pro automatically detects borders, corrects perspective, and removes shadows to produce clean, ready-to-share PDFs in seconds. DOCUMENT SCANNER - Scan documents, receipts, pictures, IDs, books, and photos with automatic edge detection and perspective correction - Digitize and restore old photos in color, black & white, or grayscale - Highlight, write, and draw directly on your scanned documents CONVERT & EXPORT - Convert any scan into a searchable PDF in seconds - Export scans as PDF, Word, PowerPoint, or JPG - Merge multiple pages into a single PDF document - Add a password to protect sensitive PDFs, or remove one when no longer needed SIGN DOCUMENTS - Add your signature to any scanned document or PDF in seconds - Fill out forms and place text, checkmarks, and initials anywhere on a document - Send signed documents directly by email or to any app OCR & FULL-TEXT SEARCH - Turn scanned text into editable text with built-in OCR - Search across the text inside your scans instantly - Highlight important sections and copy text directly from your scans QR CODE SCANNER - Scan and decode QR codes instantly from the camera screen — point, capture, done SHARE & SYNC - Access every scan on all your devices with iCloud sync - Automatically export and upload scans to Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Box, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, OneNote, or any WebDAV-enabled storage - Share unlimited scans by email or with any app, completely free - Translate scanned text into other languages You can also fax documents directly from your device. Scanner Pro supports 25+ languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Download Scanner Pro today for a fast, professional way to scan, organize, and share documents wherever you are. Share your feedback and comments at http://readdle.com/contact Privacy Policy: https://readdle.com/scannerpro/legal/privacy Terms of Service: https://readdle.com/scannerpro/legal/terms

About

TotalScan

This app is a fast and powerful tool for scanning documents and QR codes. It allows you to create virtual copies of various paper documents, extract text using OCR, and edit images with built-in filters. Scans can be saved and shared in multiple formats and integrated with cloud services.

Highlights
  • Scan documents and QR codes
  • OCR text extraction
  • Image editing with filters
  • Cloud service integration
  • Create multi-page PDFs
  • Password protection
Features
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TotalScan is currently the fastest and most powerful tool for scanning documents and QR-codes. You can create and manage a virtual copy of credit cards, books, checks, recipes, timetables and any paper documents by using TotalScan. The application supports optical character recognition (OCR) technology and allows you to extract the text from the image. TotalScan can process the captured from the camera images and already existing photos in the gallery, cloud and network services. Application allows you to adjust and apply the filters for images with the built-in editor. Experiment with your documents and edit them, you can always revert to the original image. You can upload your finished pictures to gallery, cloud and network services, send by mail in JPEG and PDF formats. Scanning takes place on your device without an internet connection, so your documents do not run the risk of being intercepted. The unique scanning and processing algorithms improve the quality of scans, remove the noises and the shadows, correct the angle of the projection, so you get the highest quality and the clear result. This scanner is created based on many years of working with the documents of many people to save your time in the day to day activities as much as possible. The application takes into account the memory capacity and the count of processor cores for maximum performance and comfortable operation. The key features is: + Recognition and decoding of QR-codes and barcodes + Automatic and the manual scanning mode + Creating and saving the documents in colored, grayscale, black and white formats + Selection of the document's page format (A3, A4, A5, Letter, Legal, Business Card, Automatic) + Flash settings + Ability to turn on a grid + Sorting of documents by the name and the date + Easy search of your documents + Ability to create the groups and move the documents from one group to another + Creating the multi-page PDF documents + Moving, copying and renaming of scans OCR special features: + Advanced algorithms of the character definition + Supports the large set of recognition languages + Fast and correct text recognition + Recognition of text with multiple languages + Retains tables, fonts and layout of original The additional benefits include: + Integration with the popular cloud services (Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Yandex.Disk) + Integration with the popular network services (SMB, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV) + Unique and advanced scanning algorithm + High performance and stability of the application + Intuitive interface + Password protection of the application + User friendly navigation High speed and quality of image processing without tedious manual corrections will make TotalScan your ideal companion for business and education. Already thousands of people have joined us! And you could try this tool of scanning unsurpassed in speed of work and capabilities! We are continuously working to improve the app. If you have any comments, suggestions and questions, write on our email support@develsoftware.com.

Screenshots

Scanner Pro4 screens
TotalScan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Scanner Pro at 4.9 against TotalScan's 4.5. Scanner Pro also leads on ratings volume (337K vs 33) and review sentiment (78% vs 56%). TotalScan's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Scanner Pro sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and TotalScan sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scanner Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scanner Pro has 337K ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Scanner Pro's written reviews are positive against 56% of TotalScan's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scanner Pro ships an update fortnightly, TotalScan every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Scanner Pro versus TotalScan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanner ProTotalScan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (337K ratings) — better4.5 (33 ratings)
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings337K — better33
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#29 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size276 MB133 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReaddle Technologies LimitedLTD DevelSoftware

Customer experience

Scanner Pro

All ratings337,211 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.1%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews1,544 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral4.8%
Negative17.4%

TotalScan

All ratings33 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral7.9%
Negative36.5%

User reviews

Scanner Pro

From 337K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent scanning quality
  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
  • 💾 Seamless cloud integration
  • 🌟 Consistently great over the years
  • 🔍 Accurate edge detection and cropping

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
  • ⚠️ Unreliable cloud sync and file management
  • 🔍 Struggles with low-quality or angled documents
  • 💤 Slow performance with large documents
  • 🙅‍♀️ Intrusive advertising and upselling

TotalScan

From 33 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Useful for students
  • 👍 Good quality scans
  • 👍 Works well
  • 👍 Free version is usable

Room to improve

  • 👎 Inconvenient interface
  • 👎 Poor scanning quality
  • 👎 App doesn't work with iOS updates
  • 👎 Scans are black and white
  • 👎 App is paid/expensive

Bugs and requests

Scanner Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Sudden loss of scanned documents
  • Inconsistent iCloud sync and storage
  • Cropping and alignment issues after updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create subfolders
  • Improved OCR accuracy, especially for receipts
  • Direct import of emailed documents
  • Customizable naming and organization options
  • Faster cloud sync and better offline access

TotalScan

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App not working after iOS update
  • Inconsistent document framing/cropping
  • Scans are black and white
  • Documents not sending correctly via email
  • PDF creation issues
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  • Duplicate files created
  • Pro version not accessible after purchase
  • Documents deleted/disappeared
  • App not updated
  • Connection issues with iTunes Store
  • Yandex mail sharing issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Manual cropping mode
  • Add signatures and stamps
  • Color scans
  • Improved image quality for scanned photos
  • Clarification on Pro version pricing (one-time vs. subscription)

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Scanner Pro

Subscriptions9
  • Scanner Pro Plus7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Expense Report7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Scanner Pro Plus7 Days trial$6.991 Month
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  • Scanner Pro Plus3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Scanner Pro Plus7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Scanner Pro Plus7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Scanner Pro Plus$29.991 Year
  • Scanner Pro Plus3 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Scanner Pro Plus$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • Fax Pack 1$0.99
  • Fax Pack 2$1.99
3 purchases

TotalScan

One-time3
  • Thank the Developer$0.99
  • Appearance Customization$1.99
  • Document Scanner Pro Version$6.99

Questions

Is Scanner Pro free?
Scanner Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TotalScan free?
TotalScan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scanner Pro or TotalScan?
Scanner Pro is rated higher. Scanner Pro averages 4.9 out of 5 from 337K ratings, while TotalScan averages 4.5 from 33 ratings.
Do Scanner Pro or TotalScan have ads?
Neither Scanner Pro nor TotalScan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scanner Pro or TotalScan?
Scanner Pro ships an update fortnightly, and TotalScan every 3 weeks. Most recently, Scanner Pro was updated on October 28, 2026 and TotalScan on October 26, 2026.

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