Comparison

ScanRabbit vs Backfeed

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

Head to head
About

ScanRabbit

Transform your smartphone into a barcode scanner for efficient Shopify order fulfillment. Verify items as you pack to reduce errors and minimize aftersales issues. Enhance packing accuracy and speed up your operations.

Highlights
  • Smartphone barcode scanning
  • Shopify order verification
  • Error reduction
  • Improved packing efficiency
  • Seamless integration with Shopify
Features
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Effortless Smart Phone Barcode Scanning for Error-Free Shopify Order Fulfillment Designed to work with Shopify - install at https://apps.shopify.com/scanrabbit Transform your mobile phone into a powerful barcode scanner with ScanRabbit. Seamlessly scan products as you pack your orders, verifying that you send the correct items to your customers every time. This reduces costly errors and minimises the need for aftersales processes, ensuring a smoother fulfillment operation. The team behind ScanRabbit brings years of hands-on experience and unique insights into product and stock management. Trust ScanRabbit to enhance your packing efficiency and accuracy, making costly mistakes a thing of the past.

About

Backfeed

This app helps manage and print labels using Zebra thermal printers. It offers automatic network discovery, printer setup, and live status monitoring. Local printing of PDFs and images is available with a one-time unlock, while cloud printing from anywhere requires a subscription.

Highlights
  • Automatic Zebra printer discovery
  • Printer setup via Bluetooth or IP
  • Live printer status monitoring
  • Custom label size management
  • Test printing and diagnostics
  • Local PDF/image printing
  • Remote printing via cloud subscription
Features
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Print 4x6 shipping labels and your own PDFs and images from your Mac, iPhone or iPad straight to a Zebra thermal printer. You don't need a driver. Backfeed also sets up, calibrates and troubleshoots the printer, and that part is free. FREE, WITH NO ACCOUNT • Add a Printer walks you through it: it finds Zebra ZD printers on your network, sets up a new one over Bluetooth and puts it on your Wi-Fi, or adds one by its address • Shows live status: ready, out of paper, head open, paused • Calibrates to the labels you have loaded, and reads the label size from the printer's gap sensor • Print Settings: darkness, print speed, tear off or peel off, and media type, with Undo • A test label that fits the labels you have loaded: edge marks and a ruler show whether it's lined up, a solid band shows print quality, and it lists the printer's model, connection, firmware and settings in plain words • Fixes common problems: clears stuck jobs, reboots the printer, resets print geometry settings with one tap, switches a printer back to ZPL, and restores printer defaults while keeping Wi-Fi • For technicians: an advanced console for raw ZPL and SGD commands BACKFEED LOCAL: ONE-TIME PURCHASE Print your own files over your local network, for good. • Open a PDF or image in Backfeed, use Open With, or drag it onto the Mac window • A 4x6 label PDF from your shipping software prints at full size on a 4x6 label • A letter-size page with a 4x6 label on it prints just the label, at full size • The preview shows exactly what the print head will print, at your label's size • It needs no account, and nothing leaves your network BACKFEED CLOUD: SUBSCRIPTION Print to your printers from anywhere. • The printer connects out to the Backfeed relay, so you don't need a VPN or port forwarding • Includes everything in Backfeed Local, for as long as you subscribe • Plans for 1 printer, 5 printers, or up to 25 • 14-day free trial for eligible new subscribers • Export or delete your cloud data from inside the app ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE Backfeed runs natively on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Backfeed Local and Backfeed Cloud are Universal Purchases: buy once and use them on every device signed in to the same Apple Account. NO ANALYTICS, ADS OR TRACKING Backfeed ships no analytics SDK, no advertising and no third-party trackers. SUPPORTED PRINTERS Zebra ZD410, ZD411 and ZD421 network printers with direct thermal labels. Bluetooth setup works on models that have Bluetooth. Automatic discovery needs your device and printer on the same network; otherwise add it by its address, or use Backfeed Cloud. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Backfeed Terms of Service: https://backfeed.cloud/terms Privacy Policy: https://backfeed.cloud/privacy Backfeed Cloud is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Backfeed is an independent app for managing Zebra thermal label printers. Zebra and ZD are trademarks of their respective owners; Backfeed is not affiliated with Zebra Technologies.

Screenshots

ScanRabbit4 screens
Backfeed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Backfeed at 5.0 against ScanRabbit's 3.0. ScanRabbit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Backfeed sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ScanRabbit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Backfeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScanRabbit ships an update fortnightly, Backfeed every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
ScanRabbit versus Backfeed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanRabbitBackfeed
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStakaraRobert Owens

Customer experience

ScanRabbit

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Backfeed

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ScanRabbit

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Backfeed

Subscriptions3
  • Cloud — 1 Printer14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Cloud — 5 Printers14 Days trial$15.991 Month
  • Cloud Pro14 Days trial$39.991 Month
One-time1
  • Backfeed Local$9.99

Questions

Is ScanRabbit free?
ScanRabbit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backfeed free?
Backfeed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ScanRabbit or Backfeed?
Backfeed is rated higher. ScanRabbit averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Backfeed averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ScanRabbit or Backfeed have ads?
Neither ScanRabbit nor Backfeed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ScanRabbit or Backfeed?
ScanRabbit ships an update fortnightly, and Backfeed every 3 weeks. Most recently, ScanRabbit was updated on October 6, 2026 and Backfeed on October 1, 2026.

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