AppList. vs CranScan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AppList.
Organize your favorite applications into a clean, minimalist list. This free launcher focuses on reducing distractions and visual noise, making your phone feel like a tool. It prioritizes privacy with no ads or tracking.
- Minimalist app list design
- Customizable text styling
- Reduced clutter and distractions
- Privacy-focused, no tracking
- Supports up to 65 apps
- Widgets for fullscreen list
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A free minimalist home screen with your favorite apps, beautifully listed. That's it. • Beautifully Minimal – Turn your app grid into a sleek, organized list – Clean design with customizable alignment and text styling – Designed to reduce clutter and visual noise • Mindful by Design – Focus on what matters by removing distractions – Curate your essential apps with intention – Make your phone feel like a tool, not a trap • Private and Honest – No ads – No tracking – No hidden analytics – Your data stays on your device – Open source app catalog • Additional notes - This app is completely free with optional donations to support the solo developer :-) - Two widgets combine into a fullscreen list of apps, or on iOS 27 one extra-large widget fills the screen - The app comes with the equivalent of 5 fullscreen lists (for up to 65 apps!)
CranScan
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CranScan is a document scanner that respects you: no account, no cloud, no ads, no tracking. Scanning and text recognition run entirely on your device. Pay once, own it forever. SCAN • Point your camera at any document or receipt — CranScan finds it, crops it and fixes the perspective • Drag the corner handles for a perfect manual crop • Color, Grayscale and crisp Black & White filters • Combine multiple pages into one document • Or import photos you already have READ — 100% on-device OCR • Local text recognition in Cyrillic (Serbian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian) and Latin scripts — nothing is uploaded • Works with crumpled receipts, slanted photos, sideways pages — CranScan straightens and rotates automatically • Recognition runs in the background; you get a notification when your document is ready • Add extra language packs on demand — you choose when to download them RECEIPTS, ITEMS & ANALYTICS • Receipt mode extracts the merchant, date and total automatically • Line items are pulled out too, and each receipt is sorted into a spending category • The Items screen totals your spending by month, by category and by merchant — all computed locally • Auto-tagging: set keyword rules ("lidl" → #groceries) and stay organized without lifting a finger • Export all receipts and items as a CSV spreadsheet OPTIONAL ON-DEVICE AI • On supported devices you can download an optional AI model that reads even messy receipts more accurately — and it still runs fully on your device, offline ORGANIZE & EXPORT • Folders, tags, and full-text search over everything you ever scanned • Category-colored library, quick filters, and a bin so nothing is deleted by accident • Export searchable PDFs (with an invisible text layer), JPEG, TXT and CSV • Your entire library is a plain folder on your device — back it up by copying it PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE • Everything happens on-device: your documents, photos and receipt data never leave your phone • The only time CranScan uses the network is when you tap "Download" to fetch an optional language or AI pack — no documents, images or usage data are ever sent • No account, no subscription, no "premium" nagging: pay once, own forever
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: CranScan at 3 against AppList.'s 1. CranScan also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. AppList. sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and CranScan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AppList. | CranScan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (27 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clement Boissiere | Dmitrii Samoilenko |
In-app purchases
AppList.
- Small Tip$2.99
- Extra Pages$2.99
- Big Tip$9.99
CranScan
- Unlock CranScan$34.99









