Raycast vs PDFScanner Neo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Raycast
This productivity app brings AI chat, note-taking, and quick access to your essential resources to your mobile device. Seamlessly sync your content across devices and extend your desktop workflow to stay organized on the go. It requires a free account with optional premium features.
- AI chat with multiple models
- Note capture and organization
- Quicklink access
- Code snippet storage
- Cloud sync across devices
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Introducing Raycast for iOS: Your all-in-one productivity toolkit with AI, notes, and more – now on mobile as the perfect companion to the macOS app. The app brings your favorite productivity tools from the Mac into your pocket. With Raycast for iOS, you can: • Chat with dozens of AI models from leading providers to get the perfect answers for any task • Capture, organize, and access your thoughts to never lose an important idea again • Save and open Quicklinks for instant access to your most important resources • Store and reuse code snippets and templates to save time on repetitive workflows • Enjoy seamless cloud sync to keep all your content updated across devices Whether you're a long-time Mac user or just discovering Raycast on iOS, you'll have your essential productivity tools always at hand. Raycast for iOS seamlessly extends your desktop workflow to mobile, ensuring you stay productive and organized wherever life takes you. Please note: Raycast for iOS requires a free Raycast account. Premium features available with a Raycast Pro subscription. Terms of Service: https://www.raycast.com/terms-of-service
PDFScanner Neo
Easily scan paper documents into searchable PDFs using your device camera or network hardware scanners. Offers features like OCR, automatic page cleanup, and smart saving for efficient document capture and organization.
- Scan from Wi-Fi and network scanners
- Scan with device camera
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
- Automatic page cleanup and correction
- Fast page organization
- Compact PDF export
- Smart Save with presets
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PDF Scanning reimagined - from hardware scanners on your network or using the device camera on your iPhone or iPad! PDFScanner Neo brings the features you love from the Mac version of PDFScanner to mobile platforms: hardware scanner access, a fast and simple workflow, and minimal file sizes. The App is still very fresh, but its feature set is already larger than that of the Mac version and the whole experience has been completely redesigned around a mobile-first workflow. And of course, all your documents stay completely private: PDFScanner Neo has no tracking, no ads and does not send any information to any external servers. Scan paper documents, letters, receipts and notes directly into compact, searchable PDF files. PDFScanner Neo is built for people who want to capture documents quickly, keep them organized, and find them again later. Even on the go, when the hardware scanner at home is out of reach. Or if you do not have one at all. PDFScanner Neo supports the following features: • Scan from Wi-Fi and network scanners with AirScan/eSCL support • Scan with the built-in document camera on iPhone and iPad, including automatic perspective correction • Optical character recognition to make scanned documents searchable, for example with Spotlight • Invisible OCR text layer inside the PDF, so text can be found, selected and copied in other PDF apps • Automatic page cleanup, including deskewing and rotation correction • Fast page organization with reordering, deletion and more actions for single pages or batches of selected pages • Compact PDF export designed for scanned documents • High compression for black-and-white scans, including very small file sizes for archiving • Open existing PDF files or import additional PDF pages into the current scan workspace • Smart Save with presets, filename patterns, keywords and quick actions for faster recurring workflows • Customizable export filenames, including date-based and document-based naming • Automatic blank page removal for cleaner scan batches • Share or export finished PDFs directly from the scan workspace PDFScanner Neo is not a general-purpose document manager. It is focused on one task: scanning paper documents into clean, compact and searchable PDF files as quickly as possible. Advanced features require PDFScanner Neo Pro. Scanning and saving are always available in the free app, without restrictions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Raycast at 55% against PDFScanner Neo's 0%. Raycast also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (279 vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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. Raycast sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and PDFScanner Neo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Raycast holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Raycast has 279 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Raycast's written reviews are positive against 0% of PDFScanner Neo's.
Raycast ships an update every 10 days, PDFScanner Neo fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Raycast | PDFScanner Neo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (279 ratings) — better | 2.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 279 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 242 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Raycast Technologies | Felix Rotthowe |
Customer experience
Raycast
PDFScanner Neo
Bugs and requests
Raycast
Reported bugs
1 issue- Sync feature should be free at least for Raycast notes
Requested features
4 requests- Attach documents via the UI when starting a conversation
- Sync between desktop and iOS chat history
- Create notes quickly from the Share Sheet
- Extensions support
PDFScanner Neo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Raycast
- Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Advanced AI$19.991 Month
- Max Plan$49.991 Month
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- Pro14 Days trial$96.001 Year
- Advanced AI$191.991 Year
- 500 AI Credits$5.00
- 2,500 AI Credits$23.90
- 5,000 AI Credits$46.49
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- 5,000 Team AI Credits$60.00
- 10,000 Team AI Credits$116.99
PDFScanner Neo
- Neo Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Neo Pro Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year
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