Comparison

Scan Things vs Paceon

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

Head to head
About

Scan Things

Extract objects, people, pets, and artwork from images, URLs, or PDFs. Capture books and documents with searchable, selectable text embedded in PDFs. All processing is done on-device for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Extract objects from images
  • Extract text from images and PDFs
  • Save as searchable PDF
  • On-device processing
  • No account required
  • Offline functionality
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With Scan Things, you can extract objects, people, pets, artwork and just about anything else from any image, image URL, or PDF document.  Scan Things can also capture books and documents with the original images intact and the text extracted and embedded. You can save your scan as a single- or multi-page PDF with all its text fully searchable and selectable. You don't need an account to use Scan Things. You don't need internet access. Your scans never leave your iPhone or iPad as Scan Things does all of its processing on-device. Because your privacy is important (not to mention none of our business), we collect no data whatsoever and we don't use any third-party code. Your privacy is yours, and we think it should stay that way. You can get Scan Things for a one-time purchase and share it with your family at no extra cost. No subscriptions. No adds. No shenanigans. Privacy Policy: https://scanthing.app/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://scanthing.app/terms-of-use/

About

Paceon

Features
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Paceon is a habit tracker with nothing in it that is trying to get your attention. No streak confetti, no badges, no leaderboard, no feed. One screen that asks what you meant to do today, and a record of what you did. TODAY Only what is due today, as cards. A habit you either did or did not is one tap. A habit with a number — three litres of water, thirty minutes of reading — counts up towards its target. Under the habits, a short list of one-off tasks, for the things that are done once and then are over. HABITS Every habit, whether it is due today or not, plus everything you have archived. Habits repeat on the weekdays you choose, with an optional reminder at a time you choose. Two kinds, one of them counted, both of them drawn the same way everywhere in the app. STATS Completion over a week, a month or a year, an activity chart, your perfect days, your best streak, and every habit ranked with the one you are struggling with at the top. Each habit keeps its own calendar of what you did and when. BUILT TO BE QUIET A monochrome interface, a dot-matrix display for the figures, and a single accent colour that is only ever used to mean "today" or "this is about to break". Light and dark, following your phone. Full VoiceOver support, and reduced motion is honoured everywhere. FREE AND PLUS Free is the whole app with four ceilings: five habits tracked at once, stats by the week, the default accent, and no daily summary. Habits on the free plan stay on your phone and are never uploaded. Plus lifts all four and adds backup. Your habits are kept in step across every phone you sign in on, so a lost phone is not a lost year. New subscribers can try Plus free for 7 days. After the trial, Paceon Plus is $0.99 a month, charged to your Apple ID, renewing until cancelled. Cancel any time in your App Store settings; Plus runs to the end of the month you have paid for. Stopping deletes nothing — your habits stay on your phone, and the backup is kept for 30 days in case you come back. Privacy policy: https://api.paceonapp.yasarsamederol.com/privacy/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Scan Things1 screens
Paceon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Paceon at every 4 days against Scan Things's every 6 weeks. Scan Things's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Scan Things sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Paceon sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scan Things ships an update every 6 weeks, Paceon every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Scan Things versus Paceon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScan ThingsPaceon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size222 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOperates Spaceships LLCYasar Samed EROL

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Scan Things

One-time1
  • Unlimited Scans$6.99
1 purchases

Paceon

Subscriptions1
  • Paceon Plus7 Days trial$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Scan Things free?
Scan Things is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paceon free?
Paceon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Scan Things or Paceon have ads?
Neither Scan Things nor Paceon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scan Things or Paceon?
Scan Things ships an update every 6 weeks, and Paceon every 4 days. Most recently, Scan Things was updated on September 27, 2026 and Paceon on October 9, 2026.

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