Capsla vs Scanny

Capsla is a quiet Pomodoro timer for studying, deep work and anything that needs your full attention. Set your focus length, short and long breaks, and the number of cycles. Block distracting apps while you focus: Capsla asks for Screen Time access and lifts the block the moment the phase ends. A session can run on its own: with auto-start, focus, break and the next focus follow without a tap until the long break. Focus tagged Meditation, Walk or Sport can be saved to Health, and finished sessions to a calendar of your choice. Capsla only writes there and never reads. The timer is wherever you look: in a Live Activity and the Dynamic Island, on the Lock Screen, on Apple Watch, in widgets, in Control Center and on the Action button. Ask Siri to pause or start, and the answer comes with a card and buttons for the next step. You rarely need to open the app. Capsla has its own Apple Watch app: start and pause from your wrist even when your iPhone isn't nearby, feel a tap when a phase ends, and keep the timer on your watch face. Phases you finish on the watch count in your statistics on iPhone. Notifications do real work. A quiet heads-up a few minutes before focus ends, a signal when a phase is over, buttons to start the break or the next focus right from the banner, and a reminder if you forget to come back after a break. Notifications are Time Sensitive, so they come through Do Not Disturb. Statistics show where your attention went: net focus time by week, month and all time, a chart by day, the hours you focus best, days in a row and time by tag. History starts the day you install Capsla, and the app never fills in numbers it did not record. Export all of it as a CSV file whenever you like. FEATURES • Custom focus and break lengths from 1 to 999 minutes, 1 to 10 cycles • Auto-start: a whole session runs without a tap • Save focus to Health; log sessions to Calendar or schedule them there • Block distracting apps during focus • Add one or five minutes to a running focus • Live Activity, Dynamic Island and a Lock Screen widget with a start button • An Apple Watch app with complications, a Smart Stack card and a Control Center button • Timer and statistics widgets, a Control Center control, the Action button • Siri and Shortcuts: start, pause, resume, skip a break, ask how long you focused today • Tags with icons and colors; a Focus filter can pick the tag for you • “Working on”: a short note for your focus, shown on the timer, the Lock Screen and Apple Watch, in Statistics and in Calendar • 16 sounds and three vibration patterns, chosen separately for each phase • Six calm free backgrounds, including Night and Sky, which follows the time of day • Dark Mode, VoiceOver, larger text and increased contrast • 17 languages CAPSLA+ A one-time purchase with no subscription, shared with your family: thirteen more backgrounds, including Snowfall with Frost, which slowly ices over the timer, more palettes and an accent color, typefaces for the timer, celebration effects and background noise while you focus. BUILT HONESTLY No ads. The core of Capsla, including the timer, the Apple Watch app, app blocking, statistics, tags, widgets and Siri, is free and stays free. Capsla+ adds looks and sound only: nothing that was free moved behind it, and there are no pop-ups asking you to buy. There is no Capsla account. Tags and focus history sync only through your own iCloud; settings stay on your iPhone. The Privacy screen lists the recent events Capsla itself has sent, a real list from your device, and two switches turn collection off.

Scanny turns your iPhone into a fast, private document scanner. Point your camera at a page, or pick photos you already have, and get a clean, professional PDF in seconds. Everything happens on your device. Nothing is ever uploaded. WHY IS IT FREE? (WHAT'S THE CATCH?) There's no catch. Scanning a document is about as basic as it gets, and tools this basic shouldn't cost you a subscription, bury you in ads, or quietly sell your data. Too many everyday utilities have been turned into traps that nickel-and-dime you or harvest your information, Scanny is the opposite. It does one job well, it stays free, and your documents never leave your device. I built the app I wanted to use, and you get to use it too. WHY SCANNY - Completely free. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no ads. - 100% on-device. Your documents never leave your iPhone, no servers, no accounts, no tracking. - Fast and focused. Just the scanning tools you actually need, nothing else. SCAN ANYTHING - Capture pages with the camera, with automatic edge detection and perspective correction. - Multi-page scanning, build a whole document in one session. - Import existing photos, Scanny finds the page automatically, and you can fine-tune the crop by dragging the corners (with a magnifier for precision) before it's straightened. LOOKS LIKE A REAL SCAN Choose the look that fits your page: - Black & White, a high-contrast "photocopy" that removes shadows and uneven lighting so the paper looks pure white, with brightness and contrast controls to fine-tune it. - Grayscale, crisp, neutral grayscale. - Original, keep the photo exactly as captured. SEARCHABLE PDFs Scanny reads the text on your pages and embeds it as an invisible layer in the PDF, so you can search, select, and copy text straight from the finished file. Text recognition runs entirely on-device. ORGANIZE & SHARE - Reorder or delete pages and rename documents. - Export a polished PDF and share it anywhere, AirDrop, Files, Mail, Messages, and more. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Scanny has no analytics, no ads, no login, and no network access. The app collects no data of any kind. What you scan stays with you. Perfect for receipts, invoices, contracts, notes, IDs, forms, homework, and anything else you need as a clean, searchable PDF.