Calendar Scanner vs Scan Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calendar Scanner
Effortlessly add calendar events from photos or live camera feeds. Extract dates, times, and locations from posters, flyers, or screenshots and save them directly to your preferred calendar app. Ideal for quickly organizing events without manual data entry.
- Scan posters and screenshots
- Extract date, time, and location
- Review and edit event details
- Save to multiple calendar types
- Supports recurring events
- Works with live camera or photos
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Turn posters and screenshots into calendar events. Fast. Point the camera at a flyer, timetable or invite. Calendar Scanner reads the date, time and place, then lets you review and save to the calendar you choose. It’s the quickest way to get “that thing next week at 7” into your calendar. How it works - Scan a poster with the camera, or pick a photo/screenshot. - Review the suggestions. Title, dates, times, location, and recurrence. - Save one or many events to your chosen calendar. Why people use it - Faster than typing: no more pecking dates into tiny fields. - Finds multiple dates: perfect for concert tours, classes and game schedules. - Clean review step: tweak titles, times, location and notes before saving. - Choose your calendar: add to iCloud, Google, Outlook and more via the system Calendar app. - All-day or timed: supports ranges, end times and repeats (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly). - Camera or Photos: works with live posters and screenshots. Great for Concerts, meetups, lectures, sports fixtures, parent letters, office notices, gym classes. Anything with a date on it. Permissions - Camera: to scan posters. - Calendar: to save events where you want them. Terms: https://perkodar.se/terms
Scan Calendar
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Scan Calendar makes it easy to turn paper event calendars into real events on your phone. Have a paper calendar, flyer, monthly event sheet, school schedule, library activity page, or printed program? Instead of typing every event by hand, just take a photo. Scan Calendar reads the event paper, extracts the events, sorts them by date, and shows them in a simple list for you to review. With just a tap, you can choose the events you want and add them to your calendar. No more manual typing. No more switching back and forth between paper and your phone. No more hassle entering dates, times, and titles one by one. **How it works** * Take a photo of the event paper * Scan Calendar detects and extracts the events * Events are organized by individual date * Review the list * Tap to add selected events to your calendar **Key Features** * Scan printed event calendars with your camera * Extract events from paper quickly * Automatically sort events by date * Review before adding * Choose only the events you want * Add events to your calendar with one tap * Simple, fast, and easy to use Whether it is a school calendar, community event flyer, church program, library schedule, club calendar, or family event sheet, Scan Calendar helps you save time and avoid typing everything manually. It has never been easier to go from paper calendar to phone calendar. Take a photo. Review the events. Tap once to add.
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Verdict
Calendar Scanner and Scan Calendar 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
Both are free to download. Calendar Scanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Scan Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Calendar Scanner | Scan Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Perkodar AB | Alteru Inc. |
In-app purchases
Calendar Scanner
- Calendar Scanner Weekly$0.997 Days
- Calendar Scanner Yearly$24.991 Year
Scan Calendar
- Scan Calendar App Purchase$4.99
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