Comparison

Zoho Scanner vs Ghost Markdown

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Zoho Scanner

Transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner. Capture paper documents, receipts, and business cards with high precision. Convert scanned text to editable formats, translate content, and securely share your files.

Highlights
  • Document scanning
  • OCR text extraction
  • E-signature integration
  • Cloud storage sync
  • Document annotation
  • Multi-language translation
Features
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Zoho Scanner is a document scanner that helps students, freelancers, and small business teams turn paper into searchable PDFs and images, using text recognition and e-signatures. WHO IT'S FOR Built for people who deal with paper they need to keep: students scanning notes and exam papers, small business owners filing receipts and invoices, admin teams capturing business cards and contracts, and anyone who needs a clean copy of an ID or official document. A good fit if you already keep documents in a cloud drive. WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR • Scan ID cards, passports, and official documents to keep a clear copy on hand • Scan receipts, bills, and invoices so expenses get filed as they happen, not at month end • Pull editable text out of printed pages and notes, and translate it into 17 languages • Sign contracts and forms and email them back without printing anything • Scan business cards so contact details are saved instead of lost HOW IT WORKS Scan — Point your iPhone or iPad camera at a page and Zoho Scanner finds the document's edges, so you get a straight, cropped scan instead of a photo of a page. Handles multi-page documents and imports from your photo library. Crop, edit, rotate, reorder pages, filter and annotate, then share as a PDF or an image. Extract text — Text Recognition pulls the words out of a scan so you can edit them, find a document by what's inside it, and share the text as a file. Translate — Turn a scanned document into any of 17 languages, including French, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese, then send it as a file or paste it in a message. E-sign — Add your signature, initials, name, and the date to a scan, powered by Zoho Sign, so you don't need a printer and a scanner to return a form. Organize — Use folders, reminders, and tags to keep documents findable. Zoho Scanner suggests tags from a document's content, and Zia Lens sorts scans into documents, receipts, and business cards, then alerts you when new documents appear in your photos. Share and automate — Send scans by email or iMessage, or upload to Zoho WorkDrive, Zoho Expense, Zoho Notebook, Photos, or your own cloud drive. Build a workflow once and its actions run in the order you set, so filing a receipt is one tap instead of five. COMMON QUESTIONS Can I search inside my scans? Yes. Text Recognition reads every scan, so you can find a document by a word inside it. Can I edit the text after scanning? Yes. Extract the text, edit it, and share it as a file by email or message. Can I sign a document and send it back? Yes. Add your signature and date with Zoho Sign, then email it without printing. Can I translate a scanned document? Yes, into 17 languages, and you can send the result as a file or paste it in a message. Can I file receipts automatically? Yes. Build a workflow that sends a scan to Zoho Expense or your cloud drive, then run it in a tap. ONLY ON iPHONE AND iPAD • Sync across Apple devices, back up and restore with iCloud Drive • Lock your documents with Face ID or Touch ID • Scan and share from iMessage; Siri Shortcuts to scan, search, and read docs • Find documents in Spotlight, recent ones in the Today widget, workflows on Apple Watch • Multiple windows on iPad, plus Voice Control, Dynamic Text, and Dark Mode PRIVACY AND TRUST Zoho Scanner is built by Zoho Corporation, certified to ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 and SOC 2 Type II compliant. Zoho does not sell user data and shows no ads. The app is available in 22 languages. PREMIUM Some features require a Zoho Scanner Premium subscription. • Premium Monthly — 1.99 USD • Premium Yearly — 19.99 USD (save 50%) Payment is charged to your iTunes account on confirmation. Subscriptions renew within 24 hours of the period ending unless auto-renewal is turned off in Account Settings. Any unused portion of a trial is forfeited on purchase. Privacy — zoho.com/privacy.html Terms — zoho.com/terms.html Questions? support@zohoscanner.com

About

Ghost Markdown

Features
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Ghost.md is a notes app in plain Markdown with an AI assistant built in. Every note is a Markdown file on your iPhone, and the assistant can read it, write in it and plan with it while you watch. AN AI ASSISTANT, IN THE APP Ask from the dock at the head of any page. Bring your own API key, kept on this iPhone, and choose the model and how much effort it puts in. The assistant searches and reads your notes, then makes and changes them: the note opens and the words are typed in as it writes them, and the chat shows its thinking as it goes. Write requests in a note of their own and the assistant works through them. YOUR AI ASSISTANT'S OWN APP, CONNECTED With an account, connect your AI assistant's own app to Ghost.md's connector. From there the assistant can list, search, read, write and add to your notes, and you see it at work in Ghost.md, on the note it is writing. YOUR CALENDAR Sign in to your calendar, or add any calendar's subscription address. Today's events sit on the home page above your to-dos, and a query lists them or lays them on a calendar beside your to-dos. Switch it on and every to-do with a due date goes onto the calendar you signed in to, moved when its date changes and taken off when it is done. PLUGINS FOR THE TOOLS YOU USE The AI assistant, Calendar, Contacts, Webhooks and code repositories are built in, each switched on or off on one page that says plainly what it reaches. Link a note to a code repository and its list items become issues you can tick off from either side. Contacts puts a person's picture on the to-dos that name them, a tap away from a call, a text or an email. Webhooks tell a URL of yours when a note changes, and give you URLs that add to a note, for the automations you already run. THE MARKDOWN CORE Headings, lists, to-dos, tables, code, footnotes and links between notes, drawn as you type with the marks left dimmed, so a note reads the same anywhere. Seven marks of Ghost.md's own: highlight, aside, unsure, redact, shout, added, and spoiler, which sits in smoke until you tap it. Diagrams and gantt timelines are drawn from text in the note and open full screen. Add pictures from your photos or the camera. BOARDS, TICKETS AND QUERIES A list can be a board, with cards you move between columns. A note can be a ticket, with its status, assignee, priority and due date kept at its top. A query gathers notes, to-dos, tickets or events from across your library and draws them live, as a board, a table, a list, a calendar or a timeline. NOTEBOOKS, JOURNALS AND CANVASES Notes gather into a notebook with an index, to read page by page or straight through. A journal keeps an entry for each time you write, named by the minute. A canvas puts cards on a page with lines between them, saved in an open file format. WORKSPACES AND TEAMS File notes under workspaces to keep work and home apart. With an account, make an organization and invite people by their handle. It gets a workspace of its own on each member's devices. SYNC AND PRIVACY No account is needed. Without one, your notes stay on your iPhone and nothing of yours is on any server. Sign in and your notes are the same on your iPhone, on a Mac and in a browser, sealed on the device before they leave. The server cannot read them, and your password never leaves the device. The AI assistant sees only what you ask it and the notes it reads to answer, sent to your AI provider with your own key. Delete the account in Settings and everything it kept goes with it. No ads, no analytics, no tracking.

Screenshots

Zoho Scanner4 screens
Ghost Markdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ghost Markdown at 5.0 against Zoho Scanner's 4.4. Ghost Markdown also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Zoho Scanner's advantage is ratings volume (89 vs 1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zoho Scanner sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Ghost Markdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ghost Markdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zoho Scanner has 89 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Zoho Scanner's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ghost Markdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zoho Scanner ships an update fortnightly, Ghost Markdown every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Zoho Scanner versus Ghost Markdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZoho ScannerGhost Markdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (89 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings89 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZoho CorporationMatt Wisniewski

Customer experience

Zoho Scanner

All ratings89 ratings
Positive82.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative14.6%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral2.4%
Negative19.3%

Ghost Markdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Zoho Scanner

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Search function not working since July 2026 update
  • Account deletion process does not work
  • App crashes immediately on launch
  • Scanning settings default to zoomed-in camera with no adjustment
  • Cloud backup not visible in account
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  • App freezes when scanning multiple documents and uploading to WorkDrive
  • Minor error in detecting paper edges
  • OCR is wildly inaccurate for Mac
  • App crashes and cannot access documents, even for premium users
  • Cannot save to Zoho WorkDrive Team folders
  • Backup is going but cannot be found in cloud account

Requested features

11 requests
  • Improve search functionality with OCR
  • Allow file import without mandatory account creation
  • Enhance editing options, add erase tool
  • Improve file management to be more user-friendly
  • Adjust zoom/scan settings for different document sizes
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  • Add more features for business card scanning (database, CSV export)
  • Improve OCR accuracy
  • Add a dark mode option
  • Allow applying filters to all pages automatically
  • Integrate signing feature for paid subscribers
  • Translate app into French

Ghost Markdown

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Zoho Scanner

Subscriptions10
  • Doc Scanner Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Zoho Scanner Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Doc Scanner Basic Monthly$2.991 Month
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  • Doc Scanner Standard Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Doc Scanner Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Doc Scanner Premium Yearly$11.991 Year
  • Zoho Scanner Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Doc Scanner Basic Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Doc Scanner Standard Yearly$49.991 Year
  • Doc Scanner Premium Yearly$69.991 Year
None

Ghost Markdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zoho Scanner free?
Zoho Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghost Markdown free?
Ghost Markdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Zoho Scanner or Ghost Markdown?
Ghost Markdown is rated higher. Zoho Scanner averages 4.4 out of 5 from 89 ratings, while Ghost Markdown averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Zoho Scanner or Ghost Markdown have ads?
Neither Zoho Scanner nor Ghost Markdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zoho Scanner or Ghost Markdown?
Zoho Scanner ships an update fortnightly, and Ghost Markdown every 3 days. Most recently, Zoho Scanner was updated on October 23, 2026 and Ghost Markdown on October 24, 2026.

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