Comparison

Archive vs LocalScan Box

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

Head to head
About

Archive

This app quickly scans documents to PDF, ideal for receipts, contracts, and IDs. It prioritizes privacy with offline, on-device processing and Face ID protection, offering a clean interface for easy document management.

Highlights
  • Fast PDF scanning
  • Automatic edge detection
  • Multi-page capture
  • Offline and private processing
  • Face ID/Touch ID lock
  • High-quality PDF export
  • Simple document library
Features
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Archive is a private document scanner for turning paper into clean PDFs on iPhone. Scan receipts, contracts, notes, warranties, IDs, and everyday paperwork without creating an account or sending documents to a cloud service. Free core features Scan documents with automatic edge detection and multi-page capture. Save documents locally on your iPhone with SwiftData. View, rename, delete, lock, and basic-export documents as PDFs. Protect sensitive documents with Face ID or Touch ID. Archive Pro Lifetime Archive Pro is an optional one-time lifetime purchase for power-user workflows. It unlocks OCR text recognition, search inside document text, imports from Files and Photos, tags, merge and split tools, page editing, advanced PDF export options, and other Pro organization tools as they are added. Built for trust No subscriptions. No accounts. No document cloud storage. No ads. No analytics SDKs. No tracking. Optional feedback in Settings sends only the details you choose to provide.

About

LocalScan Box

Features
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Snap a bill, an insurance policy or a passport, and LocalScan Box finds the date that matters — the payment due date, the expiry date, the end of a warranty — and reminds you ahead of time. LocalScan Box reads document dates on your device, shows the source line and lets you check them before setting reminders. No account needed. READS THE DATE FROM THE PAPER • Payment due dates on bills and invoices • Expiry dates on passports • The end date of an insurance policy, a lease or a contract • Warranty end dates, worked out from the purchase date and the warranty period • Reads documents in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean and Chinese • When the paper does not make it clear whether 03/04 means March 4 or April 3, the date is shown for you to check before anything is added • No date on the paper? Add it yourself in a few taps REMINDERS TIMED FOR EACH DOCUMENT • Passport: 12 months and 6 months before it expires • Insurance policy: 2 months, 1 month and 1 week before it ends • Warranty: 1 month and 1 week before it ends • Bills: 3 days before and on the due date • Contracts and leases: 3 months and 1 month before they end • School forms: the day before and on the day • Anything else: 1 week and 1 day before Choose the time of day you get reminders in Settings. YOUR NEXT DEADLINE, FIRST • The home screen shows your next deadline and how many days are left • See this month's deadlines, how many you are tracking, and how many you finished before the deadline • The Deadlines tab sorts everything into Past deadlines, This month, Within 3 months and Later. Mark items done when you finish them • Open a deadline to change its date, see when you will be reminded, or go to the document behind it THE WHOLE FAMILY'S PAPERWORK • Note whose document it is and keep the family's deadlines in one list (adding family members is Pro) MEDICATION REMINDERS Enter a medicine and reminder times in Meds. Record each dose as "Taken" or choose "Remind me in 10 min". Free: one active medicine for yourself. Pro: unlimited medicines, including separate records for family members. The app does not calculate doses and is not a medical device. Check instructions with your doctor or pharmacist. Medication data is not sent to us or external AI services. It is included in device backups. SCAN AND ORGANIZE • Scanner with automatic edge detection and multi-page capture • Export searchable PDFs • Handwritten signatures with your finger (or Apple Pencil on iPad) • Folders and tags, and a Face ID / Touch ID lock • Add a contact from a business card FREE AND PRO Free: scanning and saving, unlimited text recognition and date reading, folders and tags, and reminders for up to 3 deadlines. Reminders for one medicine you currently take. Pro: reminders for as many deadlines as you need, family members, full-text search inside every document, receipt totals with CSV export, PDF merge, split and compress, and bulk export. Unlimited medicines, including those of family members. PRIVACY • Your documents and everything read from them are stored on your device. Nothing is sent to our servers • Sending text to an outside service only happens if you turn that feature on in Advanced settings (it is off by default) Developed by revot Inc. Support: https://revot.jp/contact.html LocalScan Box Pro (in-app purchases) • Monthly and yearly auto-renewing subscriptions, and a one-time lifetime purchase (no auto-renewal). Prices are shown in the app. • The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. • Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period (including the free trial). Payment is charged to your Apple Account; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://revot.jp/apps/localscanbox/privacy.html

Screenshots

Archive4 screens
LocalScan Box4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: LocalScan Box at every 2 weeks against Archive's every 4 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Archive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LocalScan Box sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Archive ships an update every 4 months, LocalScan Box every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Archive versus LocalScan Box: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArchiveLocalScan Box
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB9 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRemi HerbietREVOT, K.K.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Archive

One-time1
  • Archive Pro Lifetime$39.99
3 purchases

LocalScan Box

Subscriptions2
  • LocalScan Box Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • LocalScan Box Pro Yearly7 Days trial$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • LocalScan Box Pro Lifetime$46.99

Questions

Is Archive free?
Archive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LocalScan Box free?
LocalScan Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Archive or LocalScan Box have ads?
Neither Archive nor LocalScan Box shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Archive or LocalScan Box?
Archive ships an update every 4 months, and LocalScan Box every 2 weeks. Most recently, Archive was updated on October 7, 2026 and LocalScan Box on October 24, 2026.

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