OSS Document Scanner vs My Links for Linkwarden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OSS Document Scanner
Transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner. Easily scan, enhance, organize, and export documents as PDFs or images. Features offline OCR and secure password protection for your files.
- Fast camera scanning with automatic edge detection
- Bulk scanning and import from images/PDFs
- Enhance PDF quality with filters and editing tools
- Organize documents with colored folders and sorting
- Export to PDF, JPEG, or PNG
- Offline OCR for searchable PDFs
- Password protection for generated PDFs
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OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner. SCAN * Scan your documents or receipts with a fast camera scan. * Enjoy the automatic edge detection feature allowing you to quickly scan many documents * Bulk scan documents or book pages * Import documents from images or even existing PDF * You can scan to PDF any kind of document: Receipts, IDs, notes, recipes, photos, business cards, whiteboards, books. You can then use and work with the generated PDFs on all your devices, phones, computers, tablets... ENHANCE * Improve PDFs quality by applying enhancing filters for color or black & white documents. * Edit crop * Reorder pages, merge documents * Rotate pages * Change brightness and contrast to create beautiful documents ORGANIZE * Create folders with colors for easy access * Sort documents * Name documents EXPORT * create PDF directly from your mobile device by converting photos, images, other documents, into beautiful and configurable PDFs. * export and share your documents to PDF or JPEG or PNG with your friends, family, colleagues SEARCH * OCR your documents using offline (to be downloaded first) and open source models in many languages. * Generate searchable PDFs by converting images to text using the powerful OCR models from the Tesseract project. SECURITY * Improve the security of your generated PDF by adding a password. SYNC * Synchronize your documents, PDFs, Images with your computers, other devices or local folder sync. * Sync to WebDAV, Google Drive or OneDrive PRIVACY * Use a free and Open Source document scanner to protect your privacy COMMUNITY * Provide feedback or even help translate the app. You are part of this project and you make help it grow so that everyone can enjoy the best free and open source document scanner
My Links for Linkwarden
Manage and organize all your links from your phone or tablet with a beautiful and simple interface. Create, edit, and upload files, while accessing preserved link formats and organizing them by category or tag. Your privacy is protected as no personal information is shared.
- Manage all links
- Create and edit links
- Upload PDF files and images
- Pin links to dashboard
- Access preserved link formats
- Organize by category and tag
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With My Links you can manage all your links stored in Linkwarden from the ease of your phone or tablet. My Links has been created to offer the user a beautiful and simple interface, following Apple's design guidelines, while offering the same functionalities as the Linkwarden web application. With My Links you can: - View all your links - Create new links and edit existing ones - Upload PDF files and images - Pin links to the dashboard - Access the preserved formats of each link (webpage, reader mode, PDF file and image) - View the links in each category - Create and edit categories - View links for each tag - Create new links from the share menu when sharing an URL - Supports servers that use mTLS (requires iOS 18 or greater) All this while preserving your privacy, because My Links does not share your personal information with anyone, nor does it share information you have stored in Linkwarden. My Links is also available for macOS, if you have a Mac, download it and enjoy it on your Mac too!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: My Links for Linkwarden at 4.7 against OSS Document Scanner's 4.2. My Links for Linkwarden also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 10). OSS Document Scanner's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. OSS Document Scanner sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and My Links for Linkwarden sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
My Links for Linkwarden holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of OSS Document Scanner's written reviews are positive against 64% of My Links for Linkwarden's.
OSS Document Scanner ships an update fortnightly, My Links for Linkwarden monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OSS Document Scanner | My Links for Linkwarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) | 4.7 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 64.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akylas | Juan Gilsanz Polo |
Customer experience
OSS Document Scanner
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In-app purchases
OSS Document Scanner
- a coffee$0.99
- a big coffee$1.99
- a beer$3.99
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- a pint$8.99
- a very nice donation$17.99
My Links for Linkwarden
- Small tip$1.99
- Medium tip$3.99
- Big tip$7.99
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- Very big tip$12.99
- Glorious tip$19.99
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