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Moose vs ScanDoc

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

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Moose

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Moose is your personal knowledge weaver โ€” an AI-powered note manager that doesn't just store your notes, it connects them. Write down your ideas, research notes, meeting thoughts, and scattered inspiration. Moose keeps everything organized with projects, tags, and favourites โ€” then its AI weaving engine discovers connections between your notes that you never saw coming. A brainstorm from last week links to today's research. A project brief connects to notes you forgot you wrote. Moose weaves your thinking together. Everything stays private. Your notes live on your device, and with Moose Pro, they sync seamlessly across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud. WHAT MOOSE DOES โ€ข Create and organize notes with a clean, distraction-free editor โ€ข Organize your work into Projects with custom icons and colors โ€ข Tag notes for flexible cross-project organization โ€ข Pin important notes to the top and favourite the ones you love โ€ข Search across your entire knowledge base instantly โ€ข Sync notes across all your Apple devices with iCloud (Pro) โ€ข Beautiful themes to match your style โ€” Light, Dark, and three Pro exclusives WORKS WITH YOUR MAC Moose is built for both platforms. Notes you create on your iPhone appear on your Mac and vice versa. Edits, deletions, favourites, and pins all sync in real time. Start a thought on your phone during your commute, flesh it out on your Mac at your desk. The macOS version adds powerful features: folder monitoring that automatically ingests documents, an AI weaving engine that discovers connections between your notes, and a full knowledge graph visualization. Together, Moose on iPhone and Mac gives you a complete personal knowledge system. AI KNOWLEDGE WEAVING On your Mac, Moose's AI weaving engine analyses your notes using on-device processing to find hidden connections โ€” shared themes, overlapping keywords, even contradictions. The iPhone app surfaces these insights so you always have your connected knowledge at hand. PRIVACY FIRST Your notes never leave your device. All processing happens locally. iCloud sync is optional, end-to-end encrypted by Apple, and only available to Pro subscribers who choose to enable it. MOOSE PRO Unlock the full experience: โ€ข iCloud Sync โ€” Access your knowledge base across all your Apple devices โ€ข Trash & Restore โ€” Safely recover deleted notes with configurable retention โ€ข Pro Themes โ€” Midnight Gold, Vintage Rose, and Parchment exclusive themes Free 7-day trial available with Monthly and Yearly plans. Lifetime option also available. --- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your App Store account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. After purchase, manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. --- Privacy Policy: https://splashroad.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://splashroad.com/terms-of-service/ --- ## What's New (for version 1.0) Moose arrives on iPhone! Create, organize, and search your notes on the go. Sync with your Mac via iCloud. Beautiful themes. Projects, tags, favourites, and more.

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ScanDoc

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ScanDoc turns your iPhone into a fast, private document scanner that creates clean, professional PDFs in seconds. Scan documents to PDF offline, with no uploads, no account and absolutely no watermark on your files. Every page is processed entirely on your device, so your private papers never leave your phone. Whether you need to scan a contract, a receipt, a tax form, a school handout, an ID card or an old paper photo, ScanDoc detects the page edges automatically, straightens the perspective and produces a crisp, sharp scan you can share anywhere. Stop emailing blurry photos of documents and keep every page sharp, straight and easy to read. ScanDoc is a free document scanner with OCR that is simple, powerful and built to respect your privacy. SMART SCANNING & EDGE DETECTION - Automatic edge detection finds the document and crops it for you in real time - Perspective correction straightens angled or skewed photos into a flat, even page - Capture many pages in a row and combine them into one organized multi-page PDF - Manual crop, rotate and re-capture tools give you full control over every scan PROFESSIONAL SCAN FILTERS - Crisp black & white mode makes text documents look clean and print-ready - Grayscale mode creates light, ink-friendly copies that are perfect for archiving - Color enhance brings out detail in photos, receipts, drawings and graphics - Fine-tune brightness and contrast to rescue faded, dark or low-light originals ON-DEVICE OCR TEXT RECOGNITION - Recognize printed text inside your scans with fast on-device OCR - Search for any word across all of your scanned documents in an instant - Copy and extract text from a scan to paste into notes, messages or email - Everything runs offline, with no cloud processing and no data leaving your phone ORGANIZE, SIGN & MANAGE - Reorder, add, insert or delete pages inside any document with a single tap - Sort scans into folders and label them with tags for fast, easy retrieval - Add a handwritten signature to sign agreements and forms right on the spot - Rename, duplicate and share any PDF straight to email, chat or your cloud drive PRIVATE & OFFLINE BY DESIGN - 100% on-device scanning: nothing is ever uploaded to a remote server - No account and no sign-up: every feature is available from the first launch - No watermark, ever, on the PDFs you create, export and share - Lock sensitive documents behind Face ID or Touch ID biometric protection PERFECT FOR - Students scanning lecture notes, handouts and textbook pages into searchable PDFs - Freelancers and small business owners digitizing invoices, receipts and contracts - Travelers saving passports, tickets, bookings and reservations for offline access - Home offices archiving bills, warranties, tax forms and important paperwork - Real estate, legal and finance pros who need clean scans with a signature - Anyone who wants a free PDF scanner with no watermark and complete privacy YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY YOURS - ScanDoc is a private document scanner with OCR built entirely around your data - There are no hidden cloud uploads and no tracking of what you scan - Your scans live only on your device and in the backups you choose to make - Export clean, high-quality PDFs that are ready for email, print or signing Download ScanDoc today and turn every photo into a clean, searchable, professional PDF. It is the simple, private way to scan documents to PDF and keep them perfectly organized on your phone.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ScanDoc at none against Moose's 3. ScanDoc also leads on device support and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.6). On price there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Moose sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ScanDoc asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 2 level
Moose versus ScanDoc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMooseScanDoc
PriceFreeFree
Adsโ€”Yes
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
Devicesโ€”iPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.615.5 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size11 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSplash Colors, MChJFerran Espuna

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Moose

Subscriptions2
  • Moose Pro/Month7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Moose Pro/Year7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Moose Pro/Lifetime$99.99
None

ScanDoc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Moose free?
Moose is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScanDoc free?
ScanDoc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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