Doculla vs Metadata Cleaner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Doculla
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Doculla scans paper documents and business cards with your iPhone or iPad camera. Documents become PDFs with recognized text, an AI title and a short summary. Business cards become contacts. NEW: BUSINESS CARDS ⢠Scan a card and Doculla reads the name, job title, company, phone numbers (work, mobile, fax), email, website and address. ⢠Front and back: scan both sides of a card. ⢠Sorted automatically: business cards are recognized and filed under Business Cards. Wrong guess? Long-press to switch between document and business card. ⢠Check and edit every field before you save. ⢠Add to Contacts: Apple's New Contact screen opens already filled in, and you decide what is saved. ⢠Share any card as a vCard (.vcf). ⢠Tap to call, email, open the website or show the address in Maps. ⢠Search your cards by name, company, city or any text on the card. ⢠Read on your device: card text is recognized and parsed on your device and is not sent to our server. On devices with Apple Intelligence, the on-device model helps with names, job titles and addresses. ⢠Works with business cards printed in Latin script. SCAN DOCUMENTS TO PDF ⢠Apple's document camera finds the edges of the page and straightens the scan. ⢠Scan several pages into one PDF. ⢠Text recognition (OCR) reads the text on every page. Select and copy it to use anywhere. AI TITLES AND SUMMARIES ⢠Every document gets an AI-generated title and a short summary. ⢠On devices with Apple Intelligence, this happens on your device. On other devices, the recognized text is sent to our server in the EU (AWS Frankfurt) to create the title and summary. ORGANIZE AND SHARE ⢠Documents and business cards in one library. Filter by All, Documents or Business Cards. ⢠Search documents by title and summary. ⢠Share PDFs via AirDrop, Mail or Messages, or save them to Files. ⢠iCloud sync: your library syncs across your Apple devices signed in with the same Apple Account. SUBSCRIPTION Doculla Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.soon-up.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.soon-up.com/privacy
Metadata Cleaner
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Metadata Cleaner removes hidden document information from Word and PDF files before you share them. Use it for contracts, drafts, forms, client files, school papers, business documents, invoices, records, and PDFs that may contain hidden author, reviewer, editing, or document details. WHAT IT CLEANS OR CHECKS ⢠Word .docx document properties ⢠Author and last-modified names ⢠Comments and reviewer identities ⢠Tracked changes and editing history ⢠Hidden text ⢠Custom document properties ⢠PDF document metadata ⢠PDF annotations ⢠PDF attachments and embedded files ⢠PDF scripts and document actions when they can be safely removed ⢠PDF XMP metadata and hidden layers are checked and reported when they may remain PRIVATE BY DESIGN ⢠Processing happens on your device ⢠No account ⢠No sign-in ⢠No ads ⢠Your original file is unchanged ⢠You get a separate cleaned copy to share IMPORTANT ⢠Metadata Cleaner is not a redaction tool. It removes hidden document information, not text that is visible on the page. ⢠It does not OCR files. It does not inspect photo EXIF or GPS data inside embedded images. Embedded images are kept as-is. ⢠Interactive PDF form fields are preserved and are not flattened. ⢠Always review the cleaned copy before sharing anything sensitive. https://www.myworkingmemory.ai/metadata-terms.html https://www.myworkingmemory.ai/metadata-privacy.html PAID ACCESS Metadata Cleaner is free to download. Creating a cleaned copy requires active Monthly Access or Annual Access, which are auto-renewable subscriptions. Ruby Edition is a separate non-consumable in-app purchase that adds batch cleaning for up to 100 files. Ruby Edition does not replace Monthly or Annual Access. An active subscription is still required to use batch cleaning. Prices are shown by the App Store.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Metadata Cleaner at 4 against Doculla's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Doculla sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Metadata Cleaner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Doculla ships an update every 10 days, Metadata Cleaner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Doculla | Metadata Cleaner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days ā better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philipp Baldauf | Myworkingmemory LLC |
In-app purchases
Doculla
- Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Pro Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
Metadata Cleaner
- Monthly Access$1.991 Month
- Yearly$6.001 Year
- Ruby Edition$4.99
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