CaptainScanner vs ScanPro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
ScanPro
Transform your device into a professional document scanner and PDF creator. Effortlessly convert images to PDF, scan IDs, and extract text with advanced OCR technology. Organize, edit, and share your documents with ease.
- Convert images to PDF
- Scan ID cards
- AI auto-detection and cropping
- Import and edit existing PDFs
- Extract text with OCR
- Add digital signatures and stamps
- Organize files with folders
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Your iPhone already has a scanner in it. ScanPro turns it into one that makes clean, sharp PDFs — of a contract, a receipt, a passport, your ID, or the whole stack of paper on your desk. Hold the camera over the page and wait — ScanPro takes the shot itself, finds the edges, straightens it and turns it into a PDF you can sign, rename, find by the words on it and send — in seconds, without a computer. ----- ◆◆◆ WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT ◆◆◆ • Real scans, not photos: edges detected, perspective corrected, colours cleaned up • Hands-free: the shutter fires by itself once the page is held still • Sign with your finger and drag the signature exactly where it belongs • Pull the text out of any scan and paste it wherever you need it • Everything stays on your device — nothing is ever uploaded • Find any document by the words printed on it, even months later ----- SCAN – Documents, passports and ID cards, front and back on one page – Automatic edge detection and cropping, or set the corners yourself – Add pages from the camera, your photo library, or a PDF in Files – Auto capture: hold the phone still over a page and it scans itself, sheet after sheet EDIT – Drag pages to reorder them, delete the ones you don't want – Crop, rotate and pick from nine looks: colour, greyscale and high-contrast black & white – Nothing is destroyed — the original photo stays untouched, so you can always change your mind SIGN – Draw your signature once and reuse it on any document – Move it, resize it, recolour it, and place one on every page that needs it EXTRACT TEXT – Turn a scan into text you can copy, edit and send – Dozens of recognition languages – Edit the result before you use it ORGANIZE & SHARE – Collections keep contracts, receipts and school papers apart – Search your whole library by name or by the text on the pages – Grid or list view, sorted by name, date or size – Share by AirDrop, Messages, email or any other app — or send a copy locked with a password – Save pages to Photos as images – New scans name themselves after the title on the first page – Merge several documents into a single PDF – Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode ----- SCANPRO PRO Scanning, cropping, filters, rotating and sharing are free. PRO adds unlimited pages per document, ID card scanning, signatures, editing saved documents, drafts, saving to Photos, password-protected sharing, extra collections, text extraction from the whole document and App Lock. Pay only for as long as you need PRO. ----- Support Contact: leadingappdeveloper@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://akoruk.github.io/apps/scanner/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://akoruk.github.io/apps/scanner/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ScanPro at every 3 weeks against CaptainScanner's every 4 months. ScanPro also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). CaptainScanner's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and ratings volume (48 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. CaptainScanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year and ScanPro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ScanPro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CaptainScanner has 48 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of CaptainScanner's written reviews are positive against 75% of ScanPro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CaptainScanner ships an update every 4 months, ScanPro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CaptainScanner | ScanPro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tech Plus Beyond Inc. | CHINAR MAHMUDOVA KORUK |
Customer experience
CaptainScanner
ScanPro
In-app purchases
CaptainScanner
- Premium | Yearly3 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$39.99
- Lifetime Access$89.99
ScanPro
- Weekly Premium Subscription$1.997 Days
- Monthly Premium Subscription$6.991 Month
- Yearly Premium Subscription1 Month trial$17.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium Subscription$44.99


