Scanner Mini vs Skanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scanner Mini
Transform your mobile device into a powerful portable scanner. Easily capture documents, receipts, and photos, converting them into high-quality PDFs or JPEGs. Organize, annotate, and share your scans with advanced editing and OCR capabilities.
- Scan documents to PDF/JPEG
- Advanced image processing
- Organize scans into categories
- Annotate and edit scans
- AI-powered object removal
- OCR for text extraction
- Secure password protection
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Scanner Mini is the best place for your important documents. It transforms your iPhone and iPad into portable scanners. Scan agreements, receipts, IDs, books, and more using your device and turn them into high-quality PDFs, so you can safely store and share them anywhere. "Scanner Mini turns your iPhone into a scanning boss" – The Next Web "Scanner Mini is very, very nice. It’s simple and fast." – Mark Gurman, 9to5Mac *** WITH SCANNER MINI YOU GET FREE ACCESS TO *** EASY SCANNING Sсan any kind of paper documents into multi-page PDFs or JPEGs. ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING Create great-looking documents with original pictures, color stamps and signatures. Scanner Mini will automatically detect borders in real time, correcting distortion and geometry. You can also adjust the crop area manually, by tapping on the screen. MAKE ORGANIZING EASY All your scans are automatically organized into useful categories: bills, receipts, books or magazines, IDs, forms, etc. ANNOTATE YOUR SCANS You can draw, write, and highlight text in your scans right in Scanner Mini without jumping to another app. MAGIC ERASER Get rid of staples, holes, or fingers that got into the scan while scanning. Scanner Mini’s AI-powered eraser makes unwanted objects disappear as if they were never there. iCLOUD SYNC ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES Access to all your scanned documents on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Scan a document on your iPhone or iPad and it will be uploaded to iCloud Drive automatically. *** SCANNER MINI PLUS UNLOCKS THE ADVANCED FEATURES *** WORK WITH TEXT (OCR) Turn scans into text, so you can read, copy, and export it to other apps. Scanner Mini 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. SHARE YOUR SCANS Send scanned documents via email, export to Photos or open in any 3rd party apps. Also, you can print your documents or even fax them to most countries and territories. FULL-TEXT SEARCH Search through the text of your scans or by category, not just by titles. Quickly find any scan no matter how it’s named. REMOVE WATERMARK Create clean and professional scans without watermarks. AUTO UPLOAD & WORKFLOWS Automate your flow and perform multiple actions in just one tap. First, choose your actions – rename documents, send an email, auto upload to Dropbox, save to the required folder and much more. Then, with just one tap Scanner Mini will complete all of these actions, while you solve more important problems. PROTECT YOUR PDFs Protect your document library with a secure password, Face ID, or Touch ID. Share password-protected scans to shield them from prying eyes. We give you 7-DAY FREE TRIAL to Scanner Mini Plus, so you can download it now and check it in action. Have any feedback or comments? We’d love to hear from you at http://readdle.com/contact Privacy Policy: https://readdle.com/scannermini/legal/privacy Terms of Service: https://readdle.com/scannermini/legal/terms
Skanner
Transform your iPhone into a versatile document scanner. Easily capture, edit, and organize multi-page documents. Enhance clarity with filters, annotate with text and drawings, and share in various formats.
- Multi-page scanning
- Automatic border detection
- Annotation tools (text, drawing)
- Document organization
- Multiple export formats (PDF, JPEG)
- Searchable documents
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Download Skanner and turn your iPhone into a powerful document scanner. Scan one, two or four pages at a time or scan from multiple document photos from the camera roll. Create a collage of two side by side document pages. Skanner automatically detects document borders and straightens the document out. Borders can be adjusted if necessary. Store scanned documents, annotate them with a title and a comment and share them in a multi-page PDF file or in JPEG format. Share scanned documents through your favorite messaging app, document sharing app, email or Airdrop. Highlight lines of text in your documents, blackout or whiteout sensitive text. Draw on top of a scanned document with the Pen tool. Use one of several available filters to achieve best document quality. View all scanned documents in form or a feed. Search documents by their title, comment or hashtags. Adjust settings to either use high, medium or low compression rate when storing documents. Copy already scanned documents and store them separately from the originals, add new highlights to them and share them in PDF of JPEG formats. Scan documents from Camera Roll or from any other photo album. Share a photo with Skanner via iOS Share Sheet extension for further processing in the Skanner.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Skanner at none against Scanner Mini's 10. Skanner also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). Scanner Mini's advantage is ratings volume (21K vs 19). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Scanner Mini sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Skanner asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Scanner Mini against 5.0 for Skanner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scanner Mini has 21K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Scanner Mini's written reviews are positive against 100% of Skanner's.
Scanner Mini ships an update every 2 weeks, Skanner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scanner Mini | Skanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (21K ratings) | 5.0 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21K — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 242 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Readdle Technologies Limited | Vladimir Fridman |
Customer experience
Scanner Mini
Skanner
Bugs and requests
Scanner Mini
Reported bugs
5 issues- Scans disappearing or not saving properly
- Inability to send scans via email
- Crashing issues after iOS 14 update
- Rotation issues with multi-page documents
- Excessive file sizes for scanned documents
Requested features
6 requests- Nested folders for better organization
- Improved OCR capabilities
- Ability to share scans without paid version
- Compatibility with Apple AirDrop
- Customizable scanning settings
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- Improved auto-capture and edge detection
Skanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Scanner Mini
- Expense Report7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
- Scanner Mini Plus7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Fax Pack 1$0.99
- Unlimited Email Upgrade$1.99
- Secure$1.99
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- Upload$1.99
- Fax Pack 2$1.99
- Full Pack$3.99
- Print & Fax$7.99
Skanner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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