TurboScan™ Pro vs ScanGo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TurboScan™ Pro
Transform your iPhone into a powerful document scanner. Quickly capture, organize, and share multipage documents, receipts, and more as high-quality PDFs or JPEGs. Advanced algorithms ensure accurate edge detection, perspective correction, and optimal contrast for clear scans.
- Automatic document detection
- Perspective correction
- High-quality PDF/JPEG output
- Document naming and organization
- Quick email sending
- SureScan mode for sharp scans
- Face/Touch ID security
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TurboScan turns your iPhone into a full-featured and powerful scanner for documents, receipts, books, photos, whiteboards, and more. You can quickly and accurately scan your multipage documents in high quality PDFs or JPEGs, name, organize and send them anywhere. • Featured in The NY Times, CNN Money and The Telegraph. • “Absolutely the best... I've tried other scanner apps and this one is the only way to go. Never going back to the other apps… TurboScan sets the standard for scanning apps.” - User review. • “…Would recommend this flawless and incredibly useful and perfectly executed app” - User review. TurboScan uses advanced and fast algorithms to accurately detect document edges, straighten them (correct perspective), eliminate shadows and set a perfect contrast for black on white text. Color and photo modes are also available. TurboScan boasts a powerful yet easy to use interface. Our handy "Email to myself" feature lets you quickly send documents with one tap. TurboScan also offers SureScan, our proprietary scanning mode for sharper scans (especially useful in low-light conditions.) SureScan automatically takes three pictures of the same document, giving you a guaranteed perfect result every time. We do not collect any data from TurboScan and all scanning happens on your iPhone. The confidentiality of your data is never compromised. TURBOSCAN FEATURES: • Automatic document detection and capture with perspective correction • Features SureScan for the sharpest scans • Document naming, folder organization and smart search • “Email to myself” feature for quick, regular emails • Add and reorder pages at any time • Arrange multiple receipts or cards on a single PDF page for printing, easy viewing, etc. • Send faxes using our Turbo Fax app • Easily email & message documents or separate pages as PDF & JPEG • Save documents or pages to Photos • Face/Touch ID & passcode lock for increased security • Upload, auto-upload or backup documents to iCloud Drive • Open PDFs or JPEGs in Google Drive and other PDF cloud apps • Combine scans via Merge or copy & paste separate pages • Conveniently AirDrop documents to your Mac and other devices • Print documents via AirPrint • Ultra-fast scanning (under 3 seconds per page) • Features VoiceOver for visually impaired users • We do not collect any user data in TurboScan TIPS ON SCANNING • Make sure your document is flat. • Use flash in low light conditions, but avoid glare with glossy documents. We support Ukraine. We're constantly improving TurboScan, and we value our customers' opinions and feedback. Please email us at support@turboscanapp.com with any questions or suggestions. Thank you!
ScanGo
Easily scan documents, certificates, credit cards, and receipts into high-quality PDFs or images. Extract text using OCR, organize with folders, and share via various cloud services or directly. Protect your scans with a passcode.
- Scan documents and photos to PDF
- OCR text extraction
- Edit and enhance scans
- Organize with folders
- Share via cloud services
- Passcode protection
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WHAT IS ScanGo? ScanGo is a little, simple, flexible, easy-to-use app with kinds of features satisfying different situations in your iPhone. It allows you to scan documents, certificates, credit cards, invoices, receipts, tickets and any paper with high quality image & PDF output. Also, you can extract text by OCR function from any scans just by one tap. It is also a camera scanner with concise, efficient user interface whose main tone is black & white with teal & chrome yellow embellished throughout the app. HOW TO SCAN DOCS? - Scan everything by one click, of course you can choose to scan from Photos or Camera. - Edit docs after scanning immediately, including add, rotate, adjust, reorder and delete pages. - Rotate, Crop and Adjust filter to get high quality scans. - Provided five filter modes to enhance your scans - Original, B&W 1, B&W 2, Color, Grayscale. What’s more, each filter can be adjusted for its own Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness. HOW TO MANAGE DOCS? - The Recents module on home page shows your recently added docs, which helps to find them faster. - Add folders and sub-folders to manage scanned docs. - Rename folders and documents to make them more distinguishable. - Important and urgent documents can be Starred for faster access. - Search function helps to find the doc you need from a dizzying array. - Every folder, doc and page can be shared with email, Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote etc. or Wifi directly. - Save scans as JPEG to Photos. - Move/Copy/Delete docs and pages. - Print scans directly within app once you connect to a Printer. - Fax scans directly if you have Fax Pro app installed. AFRAID OF DATA LOSS? ScanGo supports syncing data with iCloud. MAKE THE APP MORE EFFICIENT CONVENIENT - Turn on the camera immediately whenever you open the app. HANDY - Save scans to Photos automatically. EASY - Auto edge detection and enhancement. SIMPLE - Share docs and folders in default PDF size. SECURE - Protect your documents with passcode. MORE QUESTIONS? If you have any problems with ScanGo, please email us at scango@beesoft.io, we’ll help to figure it out asap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ScanGo at Free against TurboScan™ Pro's $9.99. ScanGo also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). TurboScan™ Pro's advantage is ratings volume (295K vs 168) and chart position (#4 vs unranked). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
ScanGo is free to download; TurboScan™ Pro costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for TurboScan™ Pro against 4.8 for ScanGo. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TurboScan™ Pro has 295K ratings behind it against 168, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of TurboScan™ Pro's written reviews are positive against 88% of ScanGo's.
TurboScan™ Pro ships an update every 3 months, ScanGo every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TurboScan™ Pro | ScanGo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (295K ratings) — better | 4.8 (168 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews — better | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 295K — better | 168 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #4 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piksoft Inc. | Beesoft Apps |
Customer experience
TurboScan™ Pro
ScanGo
Bugs and requests
TurboScan™ Pro
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inconsistent behavior when scanning multi-page documents
- Occasional crashes or freezes
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to organize scans into folders
- Direct integration with cloud storage services like OneDrive
- Auto-scan mode for hands-free operation
- OCR capabilities for searchable text
ScanGo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TurboScan™ Pro
No in-app purchases
ScanGo
No in-app purchases
Questions
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