SimpleMind Pro vs Honest Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleMind Pro
Organize your thoughts, capture ideas, and generate new concepts with a beautiful and intuitive mind mapping tool. Seamlessly synchronize your maps across devices and platforms, and enhance them with media and documents.
- Free-form and auto layout options
- Cross-platform synchronization
- Add images, notes, and voice memos
- Share maps as PDF or Image
- Customizable styles and themes
- Collapse/expand branches for overview
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Mind mapping helps you organize your thoughts, remember information and generate new ideas. We've created a beautiful, intuitive app, so you can mind map wherever you are and whenever you want. SimpleMind Pro is designed to synchronize your Mind Maps across platforms. For example (as a separate purchase) for Mac - https://simplemind.eu/download/full-edition/ Highlights • Easy to use. • Continuously fine-tuned based on customer feedback. • Trustworthy and reliable: 15+ years of updates and improvements. • Used in a wide range of applications: business, education, legal and medical. • Unique free-form layout or various auto layouts. • Seamless synchronization using clouds. • Add media and documents. • Share Mind Maps. • Change and customize the style of the Mind Map. • Tools to help you maintain overview. Create ○ place topics anywhere you want in the free-form layout ○ or use auto layout - great for brainstorming ○ reorganize and restructure using drag, rotate, re-arrange or reconnect ○ use checkboxes, progress bars, auto-numbering ○ connect any two topics with a crosslink ○ label relations ○ virtually unlimited page size and number of elements ○ supports multiple Mind Maps on one page Add media and documents ○ images and photos ○ notes ○ icons (stock, emojis or custom) ○ link to a topic, mind map, contact, file or webpage ○ voice memos ○ videos Seamless synchronization using clouds ○ sync mind maps with your iPads and iPhones ○ sync mind maps across platforms. For example with Mac - as a separate purchase ○ sync using iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, 坚果云 - Nutstore and Nextcloud Share your Mind Map ○ for example as PDF or Image ○ outline, can be imported in word processors ○ create a slideshow to present your Mind Map (Tablet only) ○ print ○ export to Reminders or Calendar Style your mind map ○ change the appearance by selecting one of the 15+ style sheets ○ create your own style sheets ○ style every detail, exactly how you want it ○ change borders, lines, colors, background color, the checkbox color, and much more Maintain overview ○ collapse and expand branches ○ hide or show branches or topics ○ block out distractions with autofocus ○ highlight branches by displaying branch borders ○ visually group topics with group borders ○ organize your Mind Maps in folders ○ outline view ○ search
Honest Scanner
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A document scanner that doesn't waste your time or your wallet. Scan a page. Get a clean PDF. Share it. Done. No watermark. No account. No weekly $3.99 trap. WHAT YOU GET FREE - Unlimited scans, forever - Multi-page PDFs with automatic edge detection - Color, Enhance, Black & White, and Photo filters - Save to Files, share to any app - On-device processing - files stay on your device - Tags and folders to organize what you scan - Custom sort and quick search by title - Universal - iPhone and iPad, no separate app to buy PRO - ONE-TIME OR YEARLY - Searchable PDF (on-device OCR, English + auto-detect) - Reusable signature you can drag onto any page - Password protect - Merge two documents - Split a document into a new one HONEST PRICING - $29.99 lifetime - includes Family Sharing - $19.99 per year - No 3-day trial. No weekly product. No upsell popup after every scan. WHY WE MADE THIS Every other document scanner in the App Store wants your email, your credit card on file, and $3.99 a week for the rest of your life to unlock features that should have been free. Honest Scanner doesn't. We use Apple's own VisionKit camera for capture and Apple's Vision framework for OCR - both run entirely on your iPhone. Nothing gets uploaded. No account gets created. No tracking SDK phones home. Pay once if you want. Scan forever either way. PRIVACY - Files live on this phone or ipad. We never see them. - No account, no email required. - Purchases go through Apple. We can't see your card. - Zero third-party tracking SDKs. The camera permission is the only permission this app asks for. REQUIREMENTS iPhone or iPad running iOS 17 or later. LEGAL Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://honestscanner.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Honest Scanner at Free against SimpleMind Pro's $10.99. SimpleMind Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On 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
Honest Scanner is free to download; SimpleMind Pro costs $10.99 up front. Honest Scanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. SimpleMind Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | SimpleMind Pro | Honest Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $10.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (451 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 451 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | xpt Software & Consulting B.V. | STOCKGORILLA LLC |
In-app purchases
SimpleMind Pro
No in-app purchases
Honest Scanner
- Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$29.99









