Comparison

Maskduck vs Ray Scan

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

Head to head
About

Maskduck

Features
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Maskduck is the fastest way to hide sensitive information in your screenshots and photos before you share them. Smart detection finds private info for you — then a single tap covers it up. Everything happens on your device. Your photos never leave your phone. WHAT IT MASKS • Phone numbers • Email addresses • Credit and debit card numbers • ID and document numbers • Bank account numbers • IP addresses • License plates • Long numeric strings that look private HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a photo from your library. 2. Maskduck scans the text and highlights anything sensitive. 3. Tap to hide it — or draw your own mask with the brush or rectangle tool. 4. Save or share. That's it. FOUR MASK STYLES • Solid — clean black bars • Pixelate — classic mosaic look • Blur — soft gaussian blur • Hide — cover with a matching background BUILT FOR PRIVACY • 100% on-device processing — nothing is uploaded • No account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking • Works offline • Only asks for the photo permissions it actually needs WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone sharing receipts, tickets, or order confirmations • Sellers posting product photos with personal info in the background • Developers and designers sharing screenshots with tokens or emails • Journalists and researchers redacting documents • Anyone who values privacy before hitting "send" Stop cropping awkwardly or editing in five different apps. Maskduck handles it in seconds.

About

Ray Scan

Transform your phone into a powerful document scanner. Easily capture, edit, sign, and convert files into various formats. Utilize AI for translation, summarization, and data extraction from documents.

Highlights
  • Edge detection and auto capture
  • Searchable PDFs with OCR
  • Fill and sign documents
  • Convert files to PDF, JPG, XLSX, CSV
  • AI-powered document summarization and translation
  • Cloud sync and organization
  • Object counting and QR code scanning
Features
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Ray Scan turns your iPhone into a fast, sharp document scanner. Scan, sign, edit, convert and translate your documents in one app, with a clean new design. SCAN THAT READS LIKE THE ORIGINAL - Edge detection and auto capture find the page and take the shot for you - Enhanced, Paper Crisp and Reduce Shadow make pages crisp and white while keeping faint print, punctuation and small marks - Scan types for documents, receipts, ID cards, passports, business cards, whiteboards, book pages and photos - Searchable PDFs: find any word across your library with on-device text recognition (OCR) SIGN, FILL AND EDIT - Fill & Sign: fill a PDF's own form fields, add your signature, checkmarks and crosses - Signatures you can draw, type or import from a photo - Redact: black out text and save a copy with no hidden text left - Add page numbers and watermarks, merge, split and compress - Lock a document with a password, and remove the password from a PDF you import CONVERT - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text files to PDF - iPhone HEIC photos to JPG - Scan to Excel: turn a table on paper into an .xlsx or .csv you can edit AI THAT DOES THE BUSYWORK - Ask questions about a document and get answers drawn from its pages - Translate any page into 12 languages, on the image or as text - Automatic file names and folders, summaries, and receipt and invoice details read for you - Expense report: pick a date range, see totals by category, and export a PDF with your receipts ORGANIZE AND SHARE - Folders with their own colours and icons, tags and search - Save to Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, SharePoint, Notion or the Files app - Cloud sync across your devices with 5 GB of storage (Pro) - Each account sees only its own documents - Sign in with Apple, Google, a passkey or an emailed code MORE TOOLS - Count objects: point the camera at boxes, pipes or pills and get a count you can correct - QR codes: scan one, or make one from text or a link RAY SCAN PRO Free to download, with a monthly scan allowance. Ray Scan Pro unlocks unlimited scans and cloud sync, as a monthly or annual subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. The AI features above come with the monthly and annual plans. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://rayscan.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://rayscan.app/privacy

Screenshots

Maskduck4 screens
Ray Scan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Maskduck at weekly against Ray Scan's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Maskduck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ray Scan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maskduck ships an update weekly, Ray Scan fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Maskduck versus Ray Scan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaskduckRay Scan
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer雨燕 杨Arth Labs Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Maskduck

One-time1
  • Remove Watermark$0.99
3 purchases

Ray Scan

Subscriptions2
  • Ray Scan Pro - Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Ray Scan Pro - Annual$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ray Scan Pro - Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Maskduck free?
Maskduck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ray Scan free?
Ray Scan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Maskduck or Ray Scan have ads?
Neither Maskduck nor Ray Scan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maskduck or Ray Scan?
Maskduck ships an update weekly, and Ray Scan fortnightly. Most recently, Maskduck was updated on October 31, 2026 and Ray Scan on November 10, 2026.

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