Clipboard AI vs ShaamScanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clipboard AI
This app automatically saves everything you copy, including text, links, and images, and organizes it with AI-powered categorization. Access your entire clipboard history from any app via a keyboard extension and utilize AI tools for summarization, math solving, and text transformation.
- Automatic clipboard saving
- AI-powered categorization
- Paste keyboard extension
- Save, tag, and organize clips
- AI text tools (summarize, math solver)
- Collections and folders
- iCloud sync
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Your iPhone clipboard just got an AI upgrade. Clipboard AI automatically saves everything you copy - text, links, phone numbers, emails, addresses, and even images. Never lose an important piece of copied text again. SMART CLIPBOARD HISTORY Every time you copy something, Clipboard AI captures it instantly. Your complete copy history is searchable, organized, and always available. No more "I copied something but lost it" moments. AI-POWERED CATEGORIZATION Clipboard AI automatically detects what you copied and sorts it into smart categories: - Text Snippets - notes, messages, paragraphs - Links - URLs with automatic title preview - Phone Numbers - tap to call instantly - Email Addresses - tap to compose - Physical Addresses - open directly in Maps - Codes & OTPs - verification codes, saved securely - Images - screenshots and photos you copy PASTE KEYBOARD Access your entire clipboard history from any app with our built-in keyboard extension. No more switching between apps to paste. Just open the keyboard, find your clip, and paste it instantly. SAVE, TAG & ORGANIZE Bookmark important clips so they never get deleted. Organize your saved items into custom collections. Tag clips for easy filtering and retrieval later. AI TEXT TOOLS - TL;DR Summarize - Get instant summaries of long text - Math Solver - Automatically solves math expressions and currency conversions - Text Transform - Convert case, format text, rewrite content - Language Detection - Identifies the language and offers translation - Checklist Detection - Automatically formats lists into interactive checklists COLLECTIONS & FOLDERS Group related clips into collections. Create folders for work, personal, shopping lists, project research, or anything else. Your clipboard, organized your way. BUILT FOR PRODUCTIVITY - Copy once, paste anywhere - your history is always available - Swipe to delete - clean up with a quick gesture - Dark mode - easy on the eyes - iCloud sync - access your clips across all your devices - Privacy first - your clipboard data stays on your device WHY CLIPBOARD AI? Most clipboard managers just save text. Clipboard AI understands what you copy. It auto-categorizes, summarizes, solves math, detects languages, and organizes everything into a searchable archive. It is the smart clipboard your iPhone should have had from day one. Download Clipboard AI and never lose a copied text again. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS The app is free to use with upto 10 saved clips. Clipboard AI Pro is offered as an auto-renewable subscription (monthly or yearly) with a 7-day free trial, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. Pro allows unlimited clips, iCloud sync and a lot more unlocked features. Terms of Use (EULA): https://clipboardai.xyz/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://clipboardai.xyz/privacy/
ShaamScanner
This app allows you to scan documents, receipts, and notes directly from your device. It offers on-device processing for enhanced privacy, with no network requests or cloud syncing. Easily export scans as searchable PDFs or images.
- On-device scanning and processing
- Automatic edge detection
- Perspective correction
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Searchable PDF export
- Import from Photos
- Page tuning and editing
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ShaamScanner is a private document scanner for iPhone and iPad. Capture receipts, whiteboards, business cards, notes, forms, and multi-page documents with automatic edge detection and perspective correction — then keep every scan on your device. Unlike most scanning apps, ShaamScanner makes zero network requests. Scanning, image processing, text recognition, and PDF export all run on-device using Apple's VisionKit and Vision frameworks. There's no account to create, no cloud to sync to, and no analytics collecting data behind your back. The app literally has no networking code. WHAT IT DOES • Scan with your camera. VisionKit finds document edges in real time, auto-captures when the frame is steady, and handles multi-page stacks without missing a beat. • Import from Photos. Already took the picture? Pick any image and the app runs Apple's document segmentation to find the edges and apply perspective correction, turning a crooked phone photo into a clean page. • Read the text. Apple Vision extracts text from every page. Copy it, search your library by its content, or export a PDF where every word is selectable and indexable. • Export anywhere. Send a searchable PDF via Mail, Messages, Files, AirDrop — anywhere iOS's share sheet goes. Pages can also be shared as individual images. • Tune each page. Switch between Original, Color, Grayscale, and a high-contrast Black & White filter tuned for crisp text. Rotate, re-crop, and delete pages freely. • Search the whole library. The home screen search looks through document titles and every character of recognized text, so an old receipt is one tap away. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most scanning apps upload your documents "for processing." ShaamScanner doesn't upload anything. Every capability runs on your iPhone or iPad using Apple's built-in ML. That means: • No account. No login screen. Just open the app and scan. • No cloud. Your documents never leave your device. • No analytics. No third-party SDKs. No tracking. • No subscription. One purchase, all features. REQUIREMENTS iPhone or iPad running iOS / iPadOS 17.0 or later. Document scanning requires a rear-facing camera; photo import works on any device. PRIVACY ShaamScanner does not collect personal data. The camera and photo library are accessed only when you invoke them, and the content you capture stays on your device. Full privacy policy at shaamapps.com/shaamscanner/privacy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShaamScanner at none against Clipboard AI's 3. ShaamScanner also leads on ads (none vs shown). Clipboard AI's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (31 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Clipboard AI sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ShaamScanner asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Clipboard AI against 5.0 for ShaamScanner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clipboard AI has 31 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Clipboard AI's written reviews are positive against 100% of ShaamScanner's.
Clipboard AI ships an update every 3 days, ShaamScanner every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clipboard AI | ShaamScanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shrenik Choudhary | Crescent Mission LLC |
Customer experience
Clipboard AI
ShaamScanner
In-app purchases
Clipboard AI
- Monthly · iPhone, iPad, Mac$4.991 Month
- Annual · iPhone, iPad, Mac7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime · iPhone, iPad, Mac$34.99
ShaamScanner
No in-app purchases









