Stickyboard 2 vs CaptainScanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stickyboard 2
This app provides a digital whiteboard experience with an unlimited supply of sticky notes. Effortlessly capture, organize, and arrange your ideas with intuitive gestures and powerful arrangement tools. Save and share your boards as PDFs or text.
- Unlimited digital sticky notes
- Magic Arrange for instant note organization
- Board Gallery for managing multiple boards
- Smoother ink and stutter-free drawing
- Unlimited undo/redo and copy/paste
- Email boards as PDF or text
- Lasso select for precise note selection
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Imagine a giant whiteboard with a never-ending stack of sticky notes, now with Magic Arrange! LIKE REAL NOTES, ONLY BETTER Nothing beats a whiteboard and sticky-notes for capturing lots of loose information and seeing the big picture. Stickyboard takes that flexibility and adds the convenience and power of your iPad. Don't worry about losing notes after a meeting again. It's much easier to carry around, and a lot friendlier for the environment. Use any color coding system you like. Effortlessly move and group your notes - unlike paper sticky notes, they don't fall off after too may moves. Think in the way that works best for you, and for the problem at hand. NEATLY ARRANGE NOTES WITH A FLICK OF YOUR FINGERS The most exciting feature of Stickyboard 2 is something we call Magic Arrange. One of the biggest pains of working with lots of sticky notes is having to arrange and rearrange them. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just wave your hands and have them neatly arrange themselves? Well, with the magic of the iPad and Stickyboard 2, now you can! Just select a bunch of notes, then swipe with 3 fingers to instantly arrange them into neat piles, or fan them out into a grid, columns, or rows. This is going to change the way you work with sticky notes, and you are never going to look at paper notes the same way again! Try it out for yourself. FULL FEATURED NOTES AND DRAWING Thank you for all the great feedback! Stickyboard 2 is a major new release completely rebuilt from the ground up. Key features include: - The Board Gallery: Easily manage multiple boards and quickly switch between them with the gallery view. - Smoother Ink: The ink system in Stickyboard 2 is much improved over its predecessor. It supports multiple colors with stutter-free drawing. - Unlimited undo/redo and Copy/Paste: Undo/redo works with notes and ink, just as you would expect. Tap on selected notes to copy/cut them, even to other boards. Working with large amounts of information is easy with Stickyboard 2. - Email boards as PDF or just text: Whole boards can be easily emailed as PDF files, or opt to just send the text contents instead - very handy for using Stickyboard 2 as an outlining tool. - Lasso Select: Simply run your finger around or through a group of notes to select them. This allows for much more precision than rectangular selection methods, and feels more intuitive on a multi-touch display. SIMPLE YET POWERFUL ▸ Stickyboard 2 sports an elegant and intuitive interface. Double-tap to add a note. Select and drag notes around with your finger. ▸ You have a large, zoomable board to capture all your ideas. Zoom by pinching, and pan with 2 fingers. ▸ It's easy to rearrange ideas, capture their relationships, and discover important patterns. ▸ Use four standard colors (yellow, blue, pink, and green), plus 2 special ones (lavender and sunrise). ▸ Draw free-form with the marker tool. Write, outline, and sketch around your notes. ▸ Stickyboard 2 is infinitely flexible. Use your favorite real-world sticky-note and whiteboarding techniques. Best regards from the Stickyboard team at Qrayon.
CaptainScanner
Easily transform paper documents, receipts, and notes into digital PDFs. Organize, edit, sign, and share your files seamlessly. Protect your sensitive documents with password protection and access them across devices with cloud storage.
- Scan documents from camera or import files
- Add text, annotations, and signatures
- Rearrange and merge PDF pages
- Convert PDFs to JPG or PNG
- Password protection for PDFs
- Cloud storage integration
- Dark mode
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CaptainScanner is the ultimate PDF scanner app for all your document needs! Turn your paper documents, receipts, and notes into PDF files with just a few taps. Say goodbye to cluttered desks and overflowing filing cabinets - keep all your important documents in one convenient place on your phone. Scan documents straight from your camera, import from your photo library or import files from the Files app. You can even scan both sides of your ID and get a neat, single-page PDF copy. With CaptainScanner, you can add text, annotations, and even your own signature to your PDFs. Need to move pages around or merge multiple files into one? No problem - we've got you covered. Once you're happy with your PDF, sharing it is a snap. You can send it to other apps or people with just a few clicks. So whether you're a busy professional, a student, or just someone who wants to keep their life organized, CaptainScanner is the app for you. Try it today and see why it's the best PDF scanner app out there! ► Scan documents straight from your camera ► Import images from your photo library or files from the Files app ► Scan both sides of your ID and get a neat, single-page PDF copy ► Add text and annotations to your PDFs ► Sign your PDFs with your own signature ► Rearrange pages or merge multiple files into one PDF ► Share your PDFs with other apps or people with just a few clicks ► Edit your PDFs with powerful tools like highlighter, underline, and strikethrough ► Convert your PDFs to other formats like JPG or PNG ► Apply filters to enhance the quality of your scans ► Auto-crop and auto-enhance features to optimize your scans ► Protect your PDFs with a password ► Cloud storage integration for easy access to your PDFs across devices ► Dark mode for comfortable scanning in low-light conditions Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CaptainScanner at Free against Stickyboard 2's $4.99. CaptainScanner also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Stickyboard 2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
CaptainScanner is free to download; Stickyboard 2 costs $4.99 up front. CaptainScanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Stickyboard 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
CaptainScanner holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 96 and 48 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Stickyboard 2's written reviews are positive against 100% of CaptainScanner's.
Stickyboard 2 ships an update every 3 months, CaptainScanner every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stickyboard 2 | CaptainScanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (96 ratings) | 4.8 (48 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 48 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | Tech Plus Beyond Inc. |
Customer experience
Stickyboard 2
CaptainScanner
In-app purchases
Stickyboard 2
No in-app purchases
CaptainScanner
- Premium | Yearly3 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$39.99
- Lifetime Access$89.99


