Comparison

Easy Smart Scanner vs Fax Machine

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

Head to head
About

Easy Smart Scanner

Transform your iPhone or iPad into a powerful portable scanner. Digitize documents, photos, and receipts with high-quality, multi-page scanning and easy sharing options. Enhance your scans with custom filters and enjoy all features for free.

Highlights
  • High-quality scanning
  • Multi-page document scanning
  • Share and export in PDF
  • Customizable enhancement filters
  • User-friendly interface
  • Completely free to use
Features
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Scan documents with your iPhone or iPad — as many pages as you need. Easy Scanner finds the page in front of the camera, captures it as soon as you hold it steady, and straightens it into a clean, readable scan. Put down the next page and it captures again, so a whole stack goes in one page after another. Every scan is kept as a document you can name, reopen and add to whenever you like. Features • No page limit — scan a receipt, a contract, or a whole folder in one go • Automatic capture: the page is taken as soon as it's held still, hands free • Edges found for you, with the perspective straightened out • Adjust the corners by hand whenever a crop needs fixing, while scanning or later • Filters that whiten paper and sharpen text: Enhanced, Grayscale, Black & White, or the untouched photo • Searchable PDFs — text is recognised on your device, so you can search the PDF and copy from it • Copy the text of any page straight from the app • Drag to reorder pages, rotate them, delete them, or change several at once • Export as PDF, sized to your scan or to A4 or US Letter, in three file sizes • Share pages as images or save them to Photos • Import photos you have already taken Everything stays on your device. There is no account to create, nothing to sign in to, and nothing is uploaded.

About

Fax Machine

Features
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Send and receive faxes from your iPhone, and let AI read the paperwork for you. SEND A FAX - Scan pages with the camera, or pick a PDF or photo. - Each page is cleaned up so it prints sharp on the other end. - Add a cover page in seconds. - Fax any number in the United States and Canada. - See when your fax is delivered, and resend in one tap. RECEIVE FAXES - Get your own US fax number with Pro. - Faxes sent to it arrive in your Inbox as PDFs. AI FOR YOUR DOCUMENTS - Summarize: the key points, dates and amounts. - Grammar: fix mistakes before you send. - Simplify: legal and medical wording in plain words. - Clarify: long text, clear and in order. - Ask: question any document, like "When is it due?" On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, the AI runs on your iPhone or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Otherwise it uses OpenAI, only after you allow it. FREE - Your first fax of one page. - AI tools 3 times a day. - Scanning, cover pages and delivery status. PRO - 200 fax pages a month, sent and received. - Your own fax number. - More AI every day. Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, charged to your Apple Account and renewed automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in your Apple Account settings. Terms: https://trainpaw-six.vercel.app/legal/scanbetter/terms/ Privacy: https://trainpaw-six.vercel.app/legal/scanbetter/privacy/

Screenshots

Easy Smart Scanner4 screens
Fax Machine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Easy Smart Scanner at none against Fax Machine's 3. Easy Smart Scanner also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price and device support 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. Fax Machine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Easy Smart Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easy Smart Scanner ships an update every 3 days, Fax Machine weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Easy Smart Scanner versus Fax Machine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy Smart ScannerFax Machine
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (13 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristophe PereiraDanut- Ionel Bogdan

In-app purchases

None

Easy Smart Scanner

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Fax Machine

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Annually All Access$99.991 Year
  • Pro Annual3 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Easy Smart Scanner free?
Easy Smart Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fax Machine free?
Fax Machine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Easy Smart Scanner or Fax Machine have ads?
Fax Machine shows ads; Easy Smart Scanner does not.
Which is updated more often, Easy Smart Scanner or Fax Machine?
Easy Smart Scanner ships an update every 3 days, and Fax Machine weekly. Most recently, Easy Smart Scanner was updated on November 3, 2026 and Fax Machine on November 5, 2026.

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