Comparison

ScribbleScan vs BYOK Studio

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

Head to head
About

ScribbleScan

Features
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Scan your handwritten notes and search them easily! ScribbleScan can recognize most handwriting, even those messy scrawly notes you wrote in a hurry. Have some printed notes, random business cards, flyer or coupons you'll surely lose? Add those in and ScribbleScan will let you search them too! Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) apply: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

BYOK Studio

This app provides a dedicated writing environment for organizing and developing creative projects. It offers tools for drafting, planning, mapping ideas visually, and managing project-specific reference material.

Highlights
  • Focused writing editor
  • Manuscript building from scenes
  • Card and outline planning
  • Visual idea mapping
  • Project wiki for reference
  • Scratchpad for quick ideas
  • Project organization drawer
Features
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Studio is a writing space built for writers and writing projects. Draft scenes, organize notes, plan chapters, build manuscripts, map ideas, and keep your work together in one purpose-built environment. Whether you are writing a novel, memoir, essay, screenplay, journal, research project, or long-form draft, Studio gives you a flexible place to move from first idea to structured work. Write in a focused editor Draft chapters, scenes, notes, essays, and long-form projects in a clean editor designed to keep the work in front of you. Build manuscripts from scenes Bring separate files, chapters, and sections together into a larger manuscript so your project can take shape piece by piece. Plan with cards and outlines Capture scene ideas, research, structure, notes, and beats using flexible cards and hierarchical outlines. Map your ideas visually Use the Grid Map to create mind maps, flow charts, relationship maps, timelines, and visual plans with shapes and connection lines. Create a project wiki Keep track of characters, places, concepts, research, worldbuilding, and other reference material in a living wiki for your project. Use the Scratchpad for quick ideas Capture loose thoughts, reminders, and checkable tasks before they disappear. Scratchpad entries can also be created from your BYOK device. Keep every project organized Use the Project Drawer to store and organize files, folders, drafts, notes, cards, outlines, grids, wiki entries, and other project materials. Connect with BYOK Studio is designed to work alongside the BYOK writing device, giving you a place to continue organizing, editing, and shaping the drafts you start elsewhere. Studio is more than a blank page. It is a writing environment for the whole project behind the words. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ScribbleScan3 screens
BYOK Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

ScribbleScan and BYOK Studio are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. ScribbleScan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month and BYOK Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ScribbleScan versus BYOK Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScribbleScanBYOK Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPapier LabsBYOK LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ScribbleScan

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$5.001 Month
  • Premium Annual$45.001 Year
3 purchases

BYOK Studio

Subscriptions2
  • Standard$9.991 Month
  • Standard1 Year trial$82.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Plan$299.99

Questions

Is ScribbleScan free?
ScribbleScan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BYOK Studio free?
BYOK Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ScribbleScan or BYOK Studio have ads?
Neither ScribbleScan nor BYOK Studio shows ads.

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