Comparison

Papyr vs Captured!

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

Head to head
About

Papyr

This app offers a private and efficient way to scan documents on your iPhone or iPad. It features smart editing tools to enhance scans and allows export to various formats without requiring an account. All processing is done locally on your device for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • On-device scanning and processing
  • Smart editing tools
  • Searchable PDF export
  • Multi-page scan support
  • Automatic titles and tags
  • Export as PDF, JPEG, PNG
Features
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Papyr is a fast, private document scanner for iPhone and iPad. Capture pages, clean them up with smart editing tools, and export polished PDFs or images without creating an account. Everything happens on-device: scans, filters, OCR, titles, and tags stay local. Your documents never leave your phone unless you choose to share them. Highlights: - Printer-style scan enhancement for crisp, clean pages - Auto-detect edges with manual crop and rotate - Filters with brightness, contrast, and black point controls - Perspective correction for deskewing pages - Searchable PDFs with on-device OCR - Annotations for marks and signatures - Multi-page scans with reordering - Export as PDF, searchable PDF, JPEG, or PNG - Automatic titles and tags from OCR - Private by design with no account required

About

Captured!

This app acts as a universal clipboard, saving links, photos, videos, audio, files, and texts shared from other applications. It offers on-device processing for previews, AI descriptions, OCR, and transcription, with smart organization and full-text search capabilities.

Highlights
  • Universal content capture from any app
  • Automatic previews and AI enrichment
  • On-device OCR and transcription
  • Smart organization with folders and views
  • Full-text search and Spotlight integration
  • iCloud sync for selected folders
  • JSON backup and restore
Features
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Tired of losing links, photos, videos, audio, files or texts shared from your apps? Captured is your universal clipboard. Tap Share from any app and choose Captured — everything is instantly saved, previewed and enriched, on-device by default. UNIVERSAL CAPTURE Accepts URLs, photos, videos, audio, files and text from any app. Automatic source detection (Safari, YouTube, Instagram, X, Photos...). AUTO-GENERATED PREVIEWS Every item gets a thumbnail: web pages via live browser, photos/videos from first frame, files via QuickLook, audio as waveform, text as typographic render. Thumbnail gallery with on-demand regeneration. AI DESCRIPTION, OCR & TRANSCRIPTION AI image/video description: Apple Vision (free, on-device), OpenAI GPT-4 Vision or Anthropic Claude. Built-in OCR on photos and videos. Audio speech-to-text transcription — all on-device by default, no cloud required. SMART ORGANIZATION Folders with batch move/delete and drag-and-drop reorder. Smart Views: All, Recent (7 days), Unread, With Location, With AI. Configurable sort: manual, newest, oldest, title, source. Filter by type: URL, file, photo, video, audio, text. FULL-TEXT SEARCH & SPOTLIGHT Instant search across titles, URLs, notes, AI descriptions and transcriptions. All items indexed in system Spotlight — searchable from the home screen. RICH METADATA Auto-fetch of web page title and last-modified date (bold title signals updated content). Reverse geocoding of GPS coordinates in photos. WIDGET WidgetKit widget in small, medium and large sizes showing unread items in real time. BACKUP & RESTORE Full JSON export/import (items, folders, settings, thumbnails) with Replace or Merge mode. PRIVACY All your data stays on your device. No account, no server, no ads. Network calls only when you explicitly enable web fetching or AI description via your own API key. iCloud sync, folder by folder Choose exactly which folders you want to find on your other devices. A long press on a folder offers "Sync with iCloud": its photos, videos, files and links — including previews — automatically appear on your iPhone, iPad and Mac linked to the same Apple account. Folders that are not synced remain strictly local. A "Resync iCloud" option lets you reconcile state across devices in one gesture. Link previews: lock, zoom, crop You can now lock a link's preview so it never changes, or enlarge the preview by a factor of 2 to better see thumbnails from your favorite sites. A new setting automatically crops the white or black bands surrounding some previews. Organization: everything by drag-and-drop Reorganize your folders by dragging them in the sidebar. Move an item from one folder to another simply by dragging it onto the destination folder. No more drop-down menus. Paste a link from the clipboard A new menu entry lets you directly add the currently copied link, without going through another app's "Share" menu. Manage your space better The info panel now shows the space used in iCloud when sync is active. A long press on each line gives access to quick actions. The "Delete local data only" option frees up space while keeping your synced folders intact.

Screenshots

Papyr4 screens
Captured!3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Captured! at none against Papyr's 3. Captured! also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Papyr sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Captured! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Papyr against 5.0 for Captured!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Papyr ships an update every 5 weeks, Captured! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Papyr versus Captured!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPapyrCaptured!
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGagandeep DollaAlexandre Fenyo

Customer experience

Papyr

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Captured!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Papyr

One-time3
  • Quick thanks$0.99
  • Coffee Time$1.99
  • Big Support$3.99
None

Captured!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Papyr free?
Papyr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Captured! free?
Captured! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Papyr or Captured!?
Papyr and Captured! are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Papyr or Captured! have ads?
Neither Papyr nor Captured! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Papyr or Captured!?
Papyr ships an update every 5 weeks, and Captured! fortnightly. Most recently, Papyr was updated on October 4, 2026 and Captured! on October 13, 2026.

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