Comparison

Scanner Pro vs ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro

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
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Effortlessly scan, organize, and share documents on the go to have everything you need at your fingertips. Scanner Pro brings you high-quality document scan technology in a convenient and simple mobile app. Scan agreements, receipts, IDs, books, and more using your device to convert them into PDFs in seconds. Safely store and share your documents with anyone in just a few taps with Scanner Pro. Experience the simplicity of on-the-go document scanning. Scan travel expenses, convert sketches into PDFs, and even fax important files all from your smartphone. Scanner Pro brings professional scanner capabilities, like OCR and full-text searches to your device. With advanced image processing, Scanner Pro will automatically detect borders, correct perspective and distortions, remove shadows, and more. Introducing QR Code Mode! Effortlessly scan and decode QR codes directly from your Camera screen. Simply point your device at the code, capture it, and let Scanner Pro do the rest—no extra steps required! It's that easy. Share, email, and upload your scans anywhere with cloud compatibility. With Scanner Pro you can share as many scans as you want completely free. Simply send an email, upload to your photos, or use any third-party application to conveniently deliver scanned documents. What people have to say: "I will confess to some serious love for Scanner Pro." – Rick Broida, CNET "Scanner Pro is an excellent app for those who’d like to digitize and organize their paper worlds." – Marc Saltzman, USA Today "There really isn’t a better scanner app for iPhone than Scanner Pro." – Matthew Panzarino, TNW Enjoy professional scans and convenient document sharing completely free of charge with Scanner Pro. Download today for a quick and easy mobile scanner that does it all. SCANNER PRO FEATURES SCANNING FEATURES - Scan documents, pictures, and more wherever you are - Unlike other apps, Scanner Pro saves the original document that you scanned - Conveniently edit your scans by highlighting, writing, and drawing on your documents SMART DOCUMENT ORGANIZER - Automate your workflow when you rename, send, and upload scans in just one tap - Effortlessly create folders to find any important document in seconds FULL-TEXT SEARCH - OCR and full-text search let you highlight important sections of your scans with ease - Turn your scans into text, so you can read, copy, and export it to other apps SHARE SCANS - Scan a document on your iPhone or iPad and access it on all your other devices with iCloud sync - Automatically export and upload scans to Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Box, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, OneNote, or any other WebDAV-enabled storage - Share unlimited files with your contacts for free Scanner Pro supports 25+ languages: Catalan, Croatian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish and Ukrainian. Download Scanner Pro today for a quick and compact way to professionally scan, organize, and share documents wherever you are, whenever you want. 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

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro

This app quickly scans and stores contact information from business cards using advanced OCR technology. It offers features like auto-focus, data verification, and integration with device contacts and other services, supporting 25 languages.

Highlights
  • Quick and accurate OCR scanning
  • Auto-click photo feature
  • Easy check of recognized data
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • Automatic phone number normalization
  • Address autocompletion
  • Export to Excel and Salesforce
Features
Currently charting
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ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro –The World’s Fastest Business Card Scanner & Contact Management App for iPhone and iPad! Recommended by The New York Times, CNN, The Telegraph, Computer Business Review, Macworld. Winner of the RISING STAR Award in the Mobile Star Awards ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro easily & simply captures & stores contact from business cards in 25 languages to your iPhone and iPad. The recognized data can be saved in either your device contacts or the app digital storage. KEY FEATURES • QUICK AND ACCURATE SCANNING ABBYYs optical character recognition technology provides quick & accurate recognition of all contact information: names, organizations, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc. • AUTO-CLICK PHOTO FEATURE Automatically focuses on the business card, detects its edges, crops any extraneous background & captures an image of the card all by itself. • EASY CHECK OF RECOGNIZED DATA The app highlights “unusual” characters with blue color and displays the original image so that you can quickly confirm the output of the app. • APPLE WATCH APP. You won’t need to reach for your iPhone or iPad to remember somebody’s name. View contacts and make phone calls right from BCR on your Apple Watch! • AUTOMATIC NORMALIZATION OF PHONE AND EXTENTION NUMBERS BCR will automatically put in all the missing parts so that you can reach the contact even if the country code was omitted in print. • AUTOCOMPLETION OF ADDRESSES BCR corrects any typos and fills in the missing address fields so you can easily find it on the map. • MANUAL BACKUPS. Manual backups to archive and restore to another device. • Export contacts to Salesforce Leads (premium account required). BCR can export business cards to Enterprise, Unlimited, and Performance Editions of SF license. Professional Edition does not allow BCR export. • Set up voice commands in Siri Shortcuts app to open business cards by voicing the name of the owner. • Spotlight Search to find business cards from BCR • Export business cards to MS Excel in .CSV format. • Smart Facebook and LinkedIn search: connect social media account to the business card and auto upload photo of contact from Facebook. • Search in iPhone Maps for the address of your contacts. • Exchange digitally and forward recognized contacts via e-mail as VCard or JPEG files or via SMS as a plain text. • Share your contacts using QR code. • Support 25 languages including recognition of multilingual cards. - French - German - Greek - Japanese - Indonesian - Italian - Korean - Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk) - Polish - Portuguese (Portugal) - Portuguese (Brazil) - Russian - Spanish - Swedish - Turkish - Ukrainian Read us: abbyy.com/blog/mobile Facebook.com/ABBYYsoft Twitter @ABBYY_Software YouTube.com/ABBYYvideos Privacy Policy abbyy.com/privacy Terms of Use abbyybcr.com/en/eula Looking forward to your feedback on the App Store!

Screenshots

Scanner Pro4 screens
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Scanner Pro at Free against ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's $59.99. Scanner Pro also leads on ratings volume (335K vs 2.6K) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and device support (4 vs 2). On review sentiment, ads, monetization model and chart position 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

Scanner Pro is free to download; ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro costs $59.99 up front. Scanner Pro sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scanner Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scanner Pro has 335K ratings behind it against 2.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 80% and 80% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scanner Pro ships an update fortnightly, ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Scanner Pro versus ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanner ProABBYY Business Card Reader Pro
PriceFree — better$59.99
Rating4.9 (335K ratings) — better4.6 (2.6K ratings)
Positive reviews80.1% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings335K — better2.6K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#21 — better#39
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size271 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReaddle Technologies LimitedABBYY USA Software House Inc

Customer experience

Scanner Pro

All ratings335,221 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.1%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews1,410 reviews
Positive80.1%
Neutral4.2%
Negative15.7%

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro

All ratings2,551 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral4.9%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews455 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral6.6%
Negative13.4%

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

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scanner Pro free?
Scanner Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro free?
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro costs $59.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Scanner Pro or ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro?
Scanner Pro is rated higher. Scanner Pro averages 4.9 out of 5 from 335K ratings, while ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro averages 4.6 from 2.6K ratings.
Do Scanner Pro or ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro have ads?
Neither Scanner Pro nor ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scanner Pro or ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro?
Scanner Pro ships an update fortnightly, and ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro every 2 months. Most recently, Scanner Pro was updated on September 24, 2026 and ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro on September 24, 2026.
Which is more popular, Scanner Pro or ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro?
Scanner Pro currently peaks at #21 in the App Store charts, and ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro at #39. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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