Comparison

ScanWritr vs Scanner Pro

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

Head to head
About

ScanWritr

This app transforms your device into a powerful scanner, editor, and converter. Easily scan, organize, edit, and share documents, with options to fax, email, and sync across devices. It supports a wide range of formats for both import and export.

Highlights
  • Scan documents with camera
  • Convert various document formats
  • Organize and store documents
  • Edit, fill, and sign documents
  • Improve document quality
  • Print, fax, and email documents
  • Sync across devices and cloud storage
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ScanWritr enables you to: ● Scan documents quickly using camera. ● Convert and open most used document formats easily. ● Organize and store documents into multiple local and cloud archives. ● Edit, fill, sign and annotate documents. ● Improve document quality and retouch. ● Print, fax and email documents to your partners and customers. ● Sync documents between phones, tablets and computers. ● Share notes, pages and tickets with your friends and colleagues. ● Export documents to the most popular apps and services. ScanWritr is perfect for business, educational and home use. It turns your Apple device with a camera into a all-in-one scanner, document editor and arhiving tool, suitable for scanning, organizing, editing, printing, faxing, emailing, syncing with cloud, sharing and exporting of various documents like contracts, articles, business cards, notes, receipts, warranty papers etc. Image capture is done with the help of Real-Time Edge Detection (auto crop). This scanner app also excels in import options. It imports variety of document formats, such as PDF, OpenOffice and LibreOffice documents (*.odt, *.ods, *.odp), Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Hancom documents (*.hwp), JPEG and PNG images, CSV, and more. ScanWritr enables you to edit scanned and imported documents as an image. You can add signature, annotation, use eraser or pen, and fill out the blanks using writing tool. Convert the scanned document to PDF or JPG, save it to your phone's gallery, send it via e-mail, fax it, print it (with the help of Cloud Print) or synchronize and backup it to Dropbox or iCloud. Support for synchronization of documents with the Dropbox and iCloud cloud storage providers enables you to: ● Share documents with your family members or team members at your work. ● Remote-site backup of your documents. ● Two-way shared folder synchronization. ● Access, edit and convert your documents anytime, everywhere from any device including smartphones, tablets and PCs. ● Transfer documents between your devices (phones, tablets and PCs). Some services (i.e. faxing, converting) require a network connection, for which user's carrier fees may apply. Sending faxes from ScanWritr requires the purcahse of fax tokens. All limitations of this free version can be removed at any time by making an in-app purchase. DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS? If you have any questions or require assistance don't hesitate to email us at support@vanaia.com

About

Scanner Pro

Features
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PDF Scanner Pro is a highly useful app for various professionals, including those working remotely, students, educators, accountants, realtors, managers, and lawyers. This versatile app allows you to easily digitize numerous documents, such as contracts, tax forms, tickets, receipts, handwritten notes, assignments, and more. PDF Scanner Pro is the easiest & simple app to use, which will turn your iPhone & iPad into a portable mobile scanner. EXTRACT TEXT FROM IMAGE (OCR): - Extract text from image & Turn your images into text file. - Best OCR performance to get most accurate text output from the image. - Search & replace specific text or phrase in OCR. Smart Image Optimizing: - Automatic border detection and cropping. - Preview, crop, rotate, adjust color and resize the PDF or photos you scan. - Remove and edit imperfections, erase stains, marks, creases, and handwriting. - Sign your scans manually or add signatures for the document. - Generate perfect quality docs with advanced picture processing filters. PDF Converter/PDF Maker: - PDF Converter: This PDF scanner enables you to create PDF from a website, and convert documents in multiple formats to PDF. - Supported file formats: PDF, JPG, PNG, JPEG - You can also called app as Photos to PDF Maker app. MANAGE SCANS: - Print scanned documents and clipboard text wirelessly. – Access and manage PDF files anytime. - Share scans separately or send a number of files in one PDF file via Mail or iMessage. - Protect your confidential scans by locking PDF & Documents with Password. - Document sharing as PDF, JPG through email, or uploading to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, Evernote, iCloud Drive Privacy policy: https://technicaldeveloperapps.blogspot.com/2024/03/scanner-pro-privacy-policy_20.html Terms of Use: https://technicaldeveloperapps.blogspot.com/2024/03/scanner-pro-privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

ScanWritr4 screens
Scanner Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ScanWritr at Free against Scanner Pro's $19.99. ScanWritr also leads on ads (none vs shown). Scanner Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ScanWritr is free to download; Scanner Pro costs $19.99 up front. ScanWritr sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Scanner Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScanWritr ships an update every 4 months, Scanner Pro weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ScanWritr versus Scanner Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanWritrScanner Pro
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating4.3 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews59.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVanaia LLCPratik Kadam

In-app purchases

9 purchases

ScanWritr

One-time9
  • Single Fax Token$0.99
  • Connectivity Pack S$1.99
  • Upgrade to full version$2.99
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  • Upgrade to full version$3.99
  • Fax Package S$4.99
  • Fax Package M$8.99
  • Fax Package L$17.99
  • Fax Package XL$44.99
  • Fax Package XXL$89.99
None

Scanner Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ScanWritr free?
ScanWritr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scanner Pro free?
Scanner Pro costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ScanWritr or Scanner Pro have ads?
Scanner Pro shows ads; ScanWritr does not.
Which is updated more often, ScanWritr or Scanner Pro?
ScanWritr ships an update every 4 months, and Scanner Pro weekly. Most recently, ScanWritr was updated on November 10, 2026 and Scanner Pro on November 8, 2026.

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