Comparison

Shadowfetch vs ScanLite

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

Head to head
About

Shadowfetch

Features
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Shadowfetch keeps important dates visible, whether you are counting down to something ahead or counting up from something that already happened. Add a birthday, anniversary, trip, launch, deadline, ceremony, or personal streak. Shadowfetch sorts it, counts it live, helps you protect it with reminders, and gives you clean exports when you need a backup or handoff. Core features: - Count down to future dates with live days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds - Count up from past dates for anniversaries, sobriety streaks, product launches, and milestones - Pin a priority event so it leads the home screen and widget - See a Countdown Progress bar showing how far through the wait you are - Organize events by category: Birthday, Anniversary, Travel, Health, Deadline, Celebration, Milestone, Sports, Holiday, or Other - Create one-time, yearly, or monthly countdowns - Choose all-day dates or exact times - Use absolute time zones or local wall time - Schedule local reminder alerts before important events - Enable milestone notifications for notable countdown moments - Personalize events with a color or background photo - Keep a priority countdown visible with home screen and lock screen widgets - Share polished countdown or elapsed-time cards - Export all events as a spreadsheet-ready CSV - Share an Event Health Report summarizing reminders, pinned items, recurrence, categories, photos, stale records, and upcoming dates Shadowfetch is local-first. It does not require an account, does not include analytics or tracking, and does not upload your event data to a Shadowfetch-operated server. MOMENTS (NEW IN 1.7) Every other countdown app dies at zero - Shadowfetch makes zero the whole point. Events glow TODAY when the day arrives, erupt into confetti in their own color at the exact moment, and then retire to a Memories shelf that keeps the story alive: "127 days ago." One tap turns a finished moment into a count-up ("days since our wedding") or a yearly tradition. Anticipation, celebration, memory - all offline, all yours.

About

ScanLite

Features
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Turn paper documents, receipts, IDs and book pages into clean PDFs. Recognize text on device, organize scans and export without a watermark. FEATURES - Multi-page capture with Apple’s document camera or image import - Grayscale, black-and-white and ink-saver enhancement - On-device OCR in 12 languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and major European languages - Searchable PDF, text and image export - Titles, folders, tags, sorting and OCR text search - PDF merge, split, compression and annotations with Pro FREE - All capture modes and OCR languages - Up to 3 scans and 3 OCR runs per day - Watermark-free PDF, text and image export PRO — ONE-TIME UNLOCK - Unlimited scanning and OCR - PDF merge, split and compression - Signature, text, date and checkmark annotations PRIVACY OCR and document processing run on device. ScanLite does not send documents to third-party servers or require an account. Saved documents may sync through your Apple account’s private iCloud container. Privacy Policy and Terms are available in Settings.

Screenshots

Shadowfetch4 screens
ScanLite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ScanLite at Free against Shadowfetch's $0.99. Shadowfetch's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

ScanLite is free to download; Shadowfetch costs $0.99 up front. ScanLite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shadowfetch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shadowfetch ships an update every 5 days, ScanLite every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Shadowfetch versus ScanLite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowfetchScanLite
Price$0.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert Corbin献慧 陈

In-app purchases

None

Shadowfetch

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

ScanLite

One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$1.99

Questions

Is Shadowfetch free?
Shadowfetch costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ScanLite free?
ScanLite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shadowfetch or ScanLite have ads?
Neither Shadowfetch nor ScanLite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shadowfetch or ScanLite?
Shadowfetch ships an update every 5 days, and ScanLite every 2 weeks. Most recently, Shadowfetch was updated on October 24, 2026 and ScanLite on October 17, 2026.

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