Comparison

Scanner Pro vs Scanner App

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

Scanner App

Transform your device into a powerful pocket scanner. Easily capture, edit, and organize documents, convert them to various formats, and extract text with OCR. Share your scanned files seamlessly via email or cloud services.

Highlights
  • Scan documents to PDF/PNG
  • Automatic edge detection
  • Batch scanning
  • Add signatures
  • Enhance scan quality
  • OCR text extraction
  • Translate text
Features
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Scanner App turns your iPhone into a powerful pocket scanner and help you increase productivity at work. With scanner app, you can scan any paper document into clear PDF or PNG, and sign, enhance, organize and share it to email, iCloud, Dropbox, Box...... SCANNER APP FEATURES Scan: √ Accurately detect edges of documents. √ Automatically scan without tapping. √ Scan multiple pages of files into one single PDF or long image. √ Unlimited scan business documents, receipts, ID cards, written notes, agreements, paper sketches, books, printed photos, rentals, or any other printed documents... √ Add pictures for scanning from camera roll. √ Batch scanning mode automates multiple pages scanning tasks. Edit: √ Create and add signature to electronic documents. √ Apply magic color effect to scanned files, or change filter to grayscale, black & white, threshold. √ Adjust contrast or brightness to enhance scan quality. √ Convert PDF document to PNG, JPG, TXT. Share: √ Share through Text, Email, WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn, Messenger…… √ Save scanned files to cloud services (including OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, iCloud) in one tap. OCR: √ Use text recognition to extract or grab texts from scanned image. √ Select, copy, cut, edit and share text. √ Support 10+ languages. Translate: √ Translate Text to different languages. Organize: √ Import files from iPhone or cloud services. √ Create, move and manage files and folders. √ Rename and share files with friends or colleagues. √ Protect everything with a Password. Sync: √ Sync and access your files from cloud space in seconds. √ Sync files across multiple devices. HOW TO USE Open your scanner app. Place your document in view of the camera. Tap the Camera button. If your scanner app is in Auto mode, your document will automatically scan. Tap “Manual” if you need manually capture a scan. Then drag the corners to adjust the scan to fit the page, then tap the Camera button. Tap “continue” and “done” to save your scans. UNLIMITED ACCESS MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION - You can subscribe for premium account with all premium features and no ads and watermark - Subscription is from $9.99 monthly, $4.99 weekly, $39.99 yearly - Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original "one week"/"one month"/"one year" package unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Privacy Policy: https://scannerocr.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://scannerocr.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Scanner Pro4 screens
Scanner App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Scanner Pro at none against Scanner App's shown. Scanner Pro also leads on ratings volume (338K vs 200) and chart position (#23 vs unranked). Scanner App's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 Scanner App sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Scanner Pro against 4.7 for Scanner App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scanner Pro has 338K ratings behind it against 200, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Scanner Pro's written reviews are positive against 77% of Scanner App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scanner Pro ships an update fortnightly, Scanner App every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Scanner Pro versus Scanner App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanner ProScanner App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (338K ratings) — better4.7 (200 ratings)
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews — better76.7% of reviews
Number of ratings338K — better200
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#23 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size276 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReaddle Technologies LimitedDigitap Inc.

Customer experience

Scanner Pro

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

Scanner App

All ratings191 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral1.6%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive76.7%
Neutral2.3%
Negative20.9%

User reviews

Scanner Pro

From 338K 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

Scanner App

From 200 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Excellent app for digital scanning
  • 👍 Very quick and effective
  • 👍 Easy to use and functional
  • 👍 Great scanner, free app
  • 👍 Does its work perfectly

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App did not edit PDFs
  • 🐛 Cannot upload from files
  • 🐛 Bad crops on image
  • 🐛 Not so good resolution
  • 🐛 Lags a lot

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

Scanner App

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App did not edit anything on my PDFs
  • Cannot upload from files
  • Bad crops on image, not so good resolution
  • Lags a lot
  • Free trial is broken, none of the perks were there
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  • App froze with many saved files
  • App induced purchase without permission
  • App induced to buy without user permission

Requested features

2 requests
  • New update needed
  • Dark mode option

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
4 purchases

Scanner App

Subscriptions4
  • Scanner360_weakly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Scanner360_Monthly$9.991 Month
  • PDF Scanner App Monthly Plan3 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Scanner360_yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Scanner Pro free?
Scanner Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scanner App free?
Scanner App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scanner Pro or Scanner App?
Scanner Pro is rated higher. Scanner Pro averages 4.9 out of 5 from 338K ratings, while Scanner App averages 4.7 from 200 ratings.
Do Scanner Pro or Scanner App have ads?
Scanner App shows ads; Scanner Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Scanner Pro or Scanner App?
Scanner Pro ships an update fortnightly, and Scanner App every 2 weeks. Most recently, Scanner Pro was updated on October 30, 2026 and Scanner App on October 29, 2026.

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