Comparison

Clearcam vs SlideScanner

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

Head to head
About

Clearcam

Transform your old phone or IP camera into an advanced AI security system. Enjoy live streaming with end-to-end encryption and AI-powered object detection. All processing occurs locally on your device for enhanced privacy and security.

Highlights
  • AI Object Detection
  • Live Streaming
  • End-to-end Encryption
  • Local Device Processing
  • Smart Notification Alerts
  • Rewind Past Events
Features
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Turn your IP camera or old phone into a state-of-the-art AI security camera. (New) Live Streaming – Watch your camera feed and monitor your home from anywhere in the world, our End-to-end encryption ensures only you can view it! AI Object Detection – Uses a state-of-the-art AI model to detect objects of your choice. Live View & Rewind (Local Only) – Watch your camera feed live or rewind to rewatch past events on the same network over WiFi. Runs Fully on Your Device – No cloud processing, or unencrypted data sent to external serversβ€”all processing happens on your iPhone. Smart Notification Alerts (Premium) – Get a notification with a short video clip when an object is detected. End-to-End Encryption for Alerts (Premium) – All clips sent via notifications are encrypted with AES-256 and BYOE, ensuring that only you can view them. Works on Older iPhones – A cost-effective alternative to expensive AI security cameras and compute. Open source: https://github.com/roryclear/clearcam/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SlideScanner

Features
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Slide Scanner turns your iPhone or iPad into a fast, precise document scanner for slides, receipts, papers, and even projected presentations. Aim the camera, watch the green frame lock onto the edges in real time, tap once, and a perfectly flattened scan lands straight in your photo library. That's the whole app. No accounts to create, no subscription to cancel, no cloud to trust, no watermarks to pay off. Just scanning, done properly. Open the app. Scan the thing. Get on with your day. The No-Nonsense Promise No registration. No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. No cloud. No watermarks. Slide Scanner never asks who you are, never phones home, and never holds your own scans hostage. Every feature works from the first launch, forever, entirely on your device. Why Slide Scanner? Most scanner apps bury a thirty-second job under sign-up walls, "premium" upsells, and export limits. Slide Scanner takes the opposite path: the bare minimum of features, each one polished until it's genuinely fast. Live edge detection frames your document before you even press the shutter. A precision crop editor with a magnifying loupe, magnetic edge snapping, and pinch-zoom gets the corners exactly right. Perspective correction flattens the result into a clean rectangle. Then it's saved to Photos and you're already lined up on the next one. And because it drives the camera hardware directly, from every physical lens to manual shutter speed, focus, and exposure, it handles the scans other apps fumble: glossy receipts, tilted slides, and modern projectors that turn into rainbow stripes on auto settings. Features Live Edge Detection A green frame tracks your document in the live camera view, so you know the scan is lined up before you ever tap the shutter. Every Lens on Your Phone Switch between all physical cameras β€” ultra-wide 0.5Γ—, wide 1Γ—, sensor-crop 2Γ—, and telephoto β€” with their true zoom factors, not just the default 1Γ— lens. Projector & Screen Mode Manual shutter speed presets (1/120 down to 1/8) average out display refresh cycles, killing the rainbow banding that ruins photos of modern projectors and screens. Manual Focus & Brightness Tap to focus like the stock camera, then fine-tune with a manual focus slider and a vertical exposure control β€” indispensable for glossy paper and low-contrast slides. Precision Crop Editor Draggable corners and edges with a magnifying loupe, magnetic snap-to-edge with haptic feedback, pinch-zoom for pixel-level placement, and one-tap undo for slips. Perspective Correction Shot at an angle? The crop is warped into a perfectly flat, rectangular scan β€” as if you'd used a flatbed scanner instead of a phone. Import from Photos Already photographed it? Pull any image from your library and run it through the same detection, cropping, and flattening pipeline. Straight to Photos Inspect the result with pinch-zoom, rotate it, or re-crop it β€” then save and jump immediately to the next scan. Batches of slides fly by. Privacy & Data Collection Slide Scanner is private by architecture, not by policy. Everything β€” capture, edge detection, cropping, perspective correction β€” happens on your device, with on-device Apple frameworks. The app has no accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and no network features of any kind. It asks for exactly two permissions: the camera to scan, and add-only access to save finished scans into your photo library. Your documents never leave your phone unless you share them yourself.

Screenshots

Clearcam3 screens
SlideScanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SlideScanner at none against Clearcam's 1. Clearcam's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Clearcam sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. SlideScanner asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Clearcam versus SlideScanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClearcamSlideScanner
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
MonetizationFreemiumβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size13 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRory ClearPROF MASSIMILIANO ZECCA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Clearcam

Subscriptions1
  • Clearcam Premium1 Month trial$0.991 Month
None

SlideScanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clearcam free?
Clearcam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SlideScanner free?
SlideScanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clearcam or SlideScanner have ads?
Neither Clearcam nor SlideScanner shows ads.

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