Comparison

Scannr vs Paradoc

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

Head to head
About

Scannr

Features
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Now with Scannr Pro — search across all scans, merge PDFs, and password-protect your documents with a one-time purchase. Organize everything with smart folders: Receipts, IDs, Contracts, Medical, Finance & more. Create your own custom folders. New: ID Card mode scans front & back on a single page. Color & Original scan modes. Brightness & contrast controls. Scannr turns your iPhone into a fast, intelligent document scanner. Capture any document — receipts, notes, contracts, IDs, whiteboards — and instantly convert it into a clean, searchable PDF. No account needed. No cloud uploads. Everything stays on your device. SMART SCANNING Point your camera at any document and Scannr automatically detects the edges in real-time. Fine-tune with draggable corner handles if needed, then tap confirm. Your document is instantly perspective-corrected and enhanced with a high-contrast scan filter for crystal-clear results. MULTI-PAGE DOCUMENTS Scanning a multi-page document? Just keep adding pages. Drag to reorder, tap to preview, swipe to delete. When you're done, everything is combined into a single PDF. SEARCHABLE PDF WITH OCR Every scan is processed with on-device text recognition (OCR). The result is a fully searchable PDF — find any word, copy text, or select passages. All processing happens on your iPhone. Your documents never leave your device. SMART FILENAMES Scannr reads the first line of your document and uses it as the filename. No more "Scan_001" — your files are named after what they actually contain. SHARE ANYWHERE Export your scanned PDF to WhatsApp, Telegram, Mail, Google Drive, AirDrop, Files, Print — or any app that accepts files. Choose your preferred compression level (low, medium, or high) to balance quality and file size. SCAN HISTORY Every scan is saved locally on your device. Browse your past scans, view them anytime, and re-share with a single tap. Your scans are always at your fingertips. KEY FEATURES Auto edge detection with real-time camera overlay Draggable corner handles for precise cropping Perspective correction and document enhancement Multi-page scanning with drag-to-reorder On-device OCR for searchable, selectable text in PDFs Smart filename generation from document content PDF compression options (Low / Medium / High) Flashlight toggle for low-light scanning Gallery import — scan from existing photos Full share sheet — WhatsApp, Telegram, Mail, Drive, AirDrop, Print, Files Local scan history with re-share capability Dark theme designed for comfortable scanning Zero data collection — 100% private, 100% offline No account required — just open and scan

About

Paradoc

This app transforms photos of documents into high-quality PDFs, offering a suite of tools for editing, organizing, and securing your files. It handles complex PDF types, including encrypted and form-filled documents, all processed locally on your device without needing an internet connection.

Highlights
  • On-device AI-powered scanning
  • Merge, split, compress PDFs
  • Convert PDFs to images
  • Encrypt and unlock PDFs
  • Handle encrypted and restricted PDFs
  • Fillable form support
  • Organize and reorder pages
Features
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Scan paper into a clean PDF, then merge, split, compress, reorder, lock or unlock it. Seven tools, free, all running on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, ever. No account, no subscription, no ads. Your documents stay exactly where they already are. EVERYDAY JOBS Shrink a PDF until it fits an email limit. Lock a tax return before you share it. Pull the one page you need out of a long contract. Turn a school form on the kitchen table into a PDF you can send in a minute. Combine a stack of statements into a single file. SCAN Point the camera at a page, or pick photos from your library. Paradoc finds the edges, squares up the perspective and cleans up the page. An on-device neural model lifts shadows and uneven lighting, so a page shot under a desk lamp comes out clean and legible. Up to 20 pages per document. MERGE Combine up to 20 PDFs in the order you choose. Password-protected files are handled one by one, each with its own password. SPLIT Pull a page range out into its own PDF. If the source was encrypted, the result stays encrypted. COMPRESS Three presets: Light, Balanced and Maximum. Paradoc re-encodes images, subsets fonts and repacks object streams, the same techniques desktop tools use. Text stays text. Bookmarks, form values, annotations and document metadata stay intact. ORGANIZE Reorder, delete and rotate pages from a thumbnail grid. PDF TO IMAGE Export pages as JPEG images, from 75 to 600 DPI, up to 20 pages per export. PROTECT AND UNLOCK Lock a PDF with AES-256, the strongest encryption the PDF standard defines. Unlock removes a password you know, or clears owner-only restrictions on printing and copying. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Paradoc makes no network requests. None. There is no server, no sign-in, nothing quietly phoning home. Switch on airplane mode and every feature keeps working, on a plane, in a basement, anywhere. Your contract, your tax return, your medical letter: none of it needs to visit someone else's computer to be scanned, merged, shrunk or locked. The work happens where the file already is. BUILT FOR THE PDFs THAT USUALLY BREAK THINGS Password-protected files, including older RC4 and AES-128 ones, open and stay encrypted through Split, Organize and Compress. Files locked against printing or copying are detected and explained before you continue. Digitally signed PDFs are checked before anything is touched, and you are warned when an edit would invalidate a signature; certified documents are left alone. PDF/A archives are flagged before you change them. Merge two forms with the same field names and the result still works. Files up to 100 MB. A PDF comes out the way it went in. Text that was selectable stays selectable, and pages stay as sharp as they were at any zoom, because Paradoc works on the file itself instead of turning pages into pictures. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout.

Screenshots

Scannr4 screens
Paradoc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paradoc at none against Scannr's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Scannr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Paradoc asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scannr ships an update every 10 days, Paradoc weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Scannr versus Paradoc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScannrParadoc
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaurav kumar SharmaVaibhav Teli

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Scannr

One-time1
  • Scannr Pro$2.99
None

Paradoc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scannr free?
Scannr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paradoc free?
Paradoc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scannr or Paradoc have ads?
Neither Scannr nor Paradoc shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scannr or Paradoc?
Scannr ships an update every 10 days, and Paradoc weekly. Most recently, Scannr was updated on October 25, 2026 and Paradoc on November 6, 2026.

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