Simple Scan vs UTTER IN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Scan
Easily convert paper documents into searchable PDFs or images in seconds. This app offers a streamlined scanning experience without cluttering your existing notes, with options to share directly via email, messages, or other applications. Enjoy private, on-device processing with no ads.
- Scan documents to PDF or JPEG
- Searchable PDFs with OCR
- Share scans via email, messages, or system share sheet
- Custom file destinations
- File naming suggestions (Apple Intelligence required)
- On-device processing
- No ads
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Simple Scan is the quick, easy way to scan paper documents to optimized, searchable PDF documents (or images) and send them almost anywhere. ## FEATURES ## * Same great scanning functionality as Notes, but no need to clutter your notes data with one-off scans * Create high-resolution multi-page PDFs from your paper documents * PDFs are searchable thanks to automatic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) * Built for simplicity. Just scan and send – no document library * Send scans via email or messages. Save to a file, or "Share" use to send to other apps via the system share sheet * Set up message destinations with pre-filled recipients for easy "Email to Myself" and other common uses * Custom file destinations save scans directly to a pre-selected folder without extra taps * File naming suggestions, such as names, dates, pulled from the scanned document (requires Apple Intelligence) * Save scans directly to Photos * Option to output as images (JPEG) instead of PDF * Quality option to control file size * Never any ads. Ever. * Private and on-device. All scan processing is done locally on your device. ## SIMPLE SCAN PRO ## Simple Scan is free to download and try! To continue using Simple Scan, unlock Simple Scan Pro--available as a low-cost, annual subscription or a one-time lifetime unlock purchase. ## SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS ## * Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase * Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period * Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were initially charged for the subscription * Subscriptions can be managed or canceled by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase Have questions? Email support@agiletortoise.com. Terms: https://agiletortoise.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://agiletortoise.com/privacy-policy
UTTER IN
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Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding every reminder. UTTER IN is a place to put a thought the moment you have it — spoken or typed — and then stop carrying it. Say "lunch with Khaled on Thursday at 4" and it comes back as a plan with the person, the day and the time already in place, waiting for you to say yes. NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL YOU APPROVE IT This is the whole product, and it is not a setting you can turn off. Every thought you capture comes back as a Review Card: what it understood, who it involves, when it happens, and — just as importantly — what it did not understand. You read it, correct anything wrong, and approve. Only then is anything saved or scheduled. The AI proposes. It never executes. WHAT IS MISSING IS SHOWN, NOT GUESSED If you said a day but not a time, the card says so and asks. It does not invent an hour and hope you do not notice. And when it can ask instead of making you type, it does. Say "at 4" without saying morning or afternoon and the card offers you both, as two taps. Dates, times and timezones are worked out by ordinary code rather than by a language model — the part of this that must not be creative is not. ONE CAPTURE, SEVERAL THINGS Real thoughts are rarely one item. "Call the dentist and pick up the parcel before Friday" comes back as two cards, each with its own words underneath it, each approved on its own. SPEAK IT Tap the microphone and say it. You can speak English, Arabic, French, German, Italian or Spanish — Gulf, Egyptian and Levantine dialects included — and it comes back organized, in your own words. The app itself is in English. The original recording is deleted after it has been turned into text. You are told this at the moment you approve, before it happens. You keep the meaning, not the recording. WHAT IT HOLDS - Notes — a thought parked for later - Tasks — something to do - Reminders — something that will ring - Plans — something with a day and a time, including the ones you have not decided yet - Links — a place or a page, saved where you will find it Undecided plans stay open. "We should get lunch sometime" is a real plan here, and it waits without nagging you to pick a date. TODAY, WITHOUT THE HUNTING Today shows what needs you today. Plans holds everything you have approved, searchable. An empty inbox is the point, not a failure. PRIVACY, IN PLAIN TERMS - We do not run analytics, tracking or advertising code of any kind — none on the site, none in the app. - We do not use what you capture to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. - We do not sell your personal data and we do not share it for advertising. - No member of staff, the founder included, can read your captures. That is enforced by database permissions, not by a policy anybody could change their mind about. - Anything you delete goes to a trash you can restore from for 30 days, and is then gone. A voice recording used only for transcription is not used to identify you, and nothing here does speaker recognition. WHO IT IS FOR Anyone who has ever had a thought at the wrong moment — driving, mid-meeting, almost asleep — and lost it. It asks nothing of you except that you say the thing out loud. An account is required. You can create one in the app. Terms of Use: https://utterin.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://utterin.com/privacy
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Verdict
Simple Scan and UTTER IN are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Simple Scan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and UTTER IN sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simple Scan ships an update monthly, UTTER IN every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Scan | UTTER IN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (671 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 671 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Agile Tortoise | Ali Almoosawi |
Bugs and requests
Simple Scan
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on multi-page scans for some users
- Issues with importing files from other apps
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to tag scans
- Favorite file/app destination options
- More image adjustment tools
UTTER IN
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Simple Scan
- Pro - Annual$9.991 Year
- Pro - Lifetime$39.99
UTTER IN
- Plus — Monthly$5.991 Month
- Premium — Monthly$9.991 Month
- Executive — Monthly$24.991 Month
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- Plus — Annual$59.991 Year
- Premium — Annual$99.991 Year
- Executive — Annual$249.991 Year
- Capture Pack 50$2.99
- Voice Pack 60$2.99
- Capture Pack 100$4.99
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- Flex Pack$8.99









