ID Card Scanner & PDF Maker vs PDF Scanfolio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ID Card Scanner & PDF Maker
Transform your device into a powerful document scanner. Capture, convert, and edit documents, receipts, and notes into high-quality PDFs. Recognize text with OCR, sign documents digitally, and share them securely.
- HD Document Scanning
- OCR Text Recognition
- Photo to PDF Converter
- PDF Editing Tools
- Digital Signatures
- Secure Offline Storage
- Easy Sharing
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Scan both sides of an ID card onto a single page, turn photos into PDFs, shrink large files for email and upload forms, and copy text from any page. Fast, simple, and free to use every day — no sign-up, no account. ID CARD SCANNER — BOTH SIDES, ONE PAGE • Scan the front and back of an ID card, driver's license, or passport • Both sides are placed together on one clean page, ready to print, email, or upload • Perfect for forms, applications, rentals, and anywhere a copy of your ID is required DOCUMENT SCANNER • Sharp, clean scans with automatic edge detection and enhancement • Crop, rotate, and apply filters to every page • Import existing PDFs and photos into your library • Live Text — grab text straight from the camera • QR & barcode scanner — tap a code to open, call, or save a contact PDF MAKER & COMPRESSOR • Turn photos and JPG images into a PDF in seconds • Compress PDFs to fit email and website upload limits — see the new size before you share • Sign documents — draw your signature, place it, resize it, done IMAGE TO TEXT (OCR) • Copy text from any scanned page or photo • Find any document by the words inside it • Read aloud — listen to a scanned page with text to speech ORGANIZED AUTOMATICALLY • Receipts, invoices, IDs, and business cards are sorted for you • Scans name themselves from their content • Favorites, folders, and iPhone Spotlight search • Reminders — get notified to review or send a document on time • Recently Deleted — 30 days to recover anything removed by mistake SAFE & PRIVATE • App Lock — protect your documents with Face ID or your passcode • Scanning and text recognition happen on your iPhone and work without internet • No sign-up and no account • Automatic iCloud backup, plus local backup files you control PREMIUM Unlimited folders, merge documents, translate, searchable PDF export, password-protected PDFs, export as editable text (opens in Word or Pages), ZIP, email and print — with no ads. APPLE INTELLIGENCE (SUPPORTED DEVICES) On iPhone 15 Pro or later with Apple Intelligence turned on (iOS 26 or later), you can also summarize a document and ask it questions. This runs on your iPhone. For very long documents on iOS 27, you can choose to use Apple's Private Cloud Compute — only with your permission, one document at a time. Available in 19 languages — English, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Ukrainian, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Korean. Subscription Information: • Auto-Renewal: Subscription payments will be charged to your Apple ID account at purchase confirmation. Auto-renewal occurs unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current billing period. • Manage Subscriptions: Access via App Store Account Settings. • Family Sharing: Not supported. Privacy policy: https://apps.bitclone.in/pdfscanner/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://apps.bitclone.in/pdfscanner/terms-of-use Questions or ideas? We read everything: vishal.dave2302@gmail.com
PDF Scanfolio
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Turn paper into PDFs you can actually find again. Point, capture, done. Text recognition (OCR) reads the words inside every document, so "where did I put that?" stops being a question. Scanning, recognition and search all happen on this device. WHAT PEOPLE SCAN • Receipts, invoices and bills • Contracts, warranties and manuals • Business cards • School handouts, letters and forms • Handwritten notes, books and reference material FEATURES ■ Capture straight to PDF Edges are detected automatically. Capture several pages in one go and save them as a single PDF, or split them into separate documents. Photos, files on your device and PDFs shared from other apps go through the same pipeline. ■ Search inside your documents Full-text search across everything you have saved, showing the matching page and line so you land exactly where you need to be. Plain, whole-word and regular-expression modes, plus filters for type, folder, period and amount. ■ Vertical Japanese, read correctly Vertically written pages are read column by column, right to left. Recognized text can be corrected page by page, and corrections improve search immediately. ■ Filed by type, automatically Receipts, invoices, contracts, business cards, warranties, manuals, school notices and medical documents are recognized, and a destination folder is suggested. For a warranty, the reminder suggests a month before a one-year warranty ends. Folders can be nested, renamed, coloured and given their own icons. ■ Sign and annotate Add a signature to a contract or a handwritten note to any page, in the app. ■ Read the details off a receipt Counterparty, date and total, plus tax amount, tax rate and the qualified invoice registration number where one is printed. Every field is editable and searchable. ■ Never miss a due date Set a reminder and the document appears in the Due Dates list, overdue first, with a count on the Home screen. ■ Lock what matters Face ID or passcode can lock the whole app, a folder, or one document. Locked documents are blurred in every list and stay out of search results. ■ Backup Export your entire library as a password-encrypted archive and restore it on another device. ■ Widget and Siri Start a scan from the Home Screen widget or by asking Siri. The Due Dates widget shows how many documents are overdue or due within 7 days — counts only, never a name. Shortcuts can search your documents or open the due-date list. iPad is fully supported. PRIVACY Scanning, text recognition, classification and search all happen on this device. Your documents are never uploaded, and no account or sign-in is required. The free tier's ad SDK connects to deliver ads and never has access to your documents. Pro removes ads. Automatic backup writes only to the folder you pick. PDF SCANFOLIO PRO (SUBSCRIPTION) Pro unlocks: • Searchable PDF export (selectable, findable text) • Text export • Bulk PDF sharing and merging into one file • Expense CSV export (counterparty, tax, rate, registration number, totals per currency) • AI auto-naming and classification (iOS 26 on Apple Intelligence devices) • Weekly automatic backup, encrypted, into a folder you choose • Password-protected PDF export • Splitting several documents photographed together into one each • No ads Scanning, text recognition, full-text search, folders, signing, folder suggestions, locking, backup and reminders are all free. Monthly and yearly plans are available; the price is shown before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel in Settings > your Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://fukusefeb-dev.github.io/PDFScanfolio_legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://fukusefeb-dev.github.io/PDFScanfolio_legal/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PDF Scanfolio at every 2 weeks against ID Card Scanner & PDF Maker's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. ID Card Scanner & PDF Maker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and PDF Scanfolio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ID Card Scanner & PDF Maker ships an update every 3 weeks, PDF Scanfolio every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ID Card Scanner & PDF Maker | PDF Scanfolio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vishal Dave | TSUBASA FUKUCHI |
In-app purchases
ID Card Scanner & PDF Maker
- Upgrade to Premium3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Upgrade to Premium3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Upgrade to Premium3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Life Time Access$29.99
PDF Scanfolio
- Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$11.991 Year
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