Comparison

Aside AI Chat vs scanAll

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

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About

Aside AI Chat

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Aside is a privacy-focused AI assistant with built-in encrypted tunnelling. Ask anything: privacy and security questions, everyday help, or troubleshooting, and have your conversations protected on any network. WHAT ASIDE DOES • Private AI chat. A conversational assistant that helps with questions about online privacy, public Wi-Fi safety, phishing, two-factor auth, password hygiene, and everyday digital life. No account needed. Just open the app and start typing. • Encrypted tunnelling (Shield). One tap routes all of your device's traffic through an encrypted tunnel. Useful on hotel and café Wi-Fi, airport networks, or anywhere you'd rather keep your traffic off your ISP's logs. • Quiet by design. No flashy banners, no upsells inside conversations, no ad tracking. The app stays out of the way and does its job. WHY PEOPLE USE IT • Ask a question and get a real answer, not a search result page. • Keep sensitive conversations off shared Wi-Fi networks. • Get a quick second opinion on a suspicious email or login alert. • Have one place to go for "is this safe?" without a Google rabbit hole. PRIVACY FIRST • No name, email, or phone number required. • Guest identity stored only on your device. Never linked to you personally. • No third-party ad networks. No analytics SDKs. No data brokers. • Conversations are not used to train public AI models. • Read our full policy: https://asideai.net/privacy CHAT FEATURES • Conversational AI with privacy and digital-safety focus • Conversation history kept on-device so you can scroll back • Suggested starting prompts to get you going SHIELD (ENCRYPTED TUNNEL) • One-tap on/off • Routes all traffic through Aside-operated servers • Standard IPsec/IKEv2-class encryption • No connection logs of what sites you visit • Works on Wi-Fi and cellular WHAT ASIDE DOESN'T DO • No peer-to-peer messaging. Aside is a one-on-one conversation with the AI, not a chat app between users. • No content generation suite. No image generators, no code writers, no document creation. Aside stays focused. • No fingerprinting, no sale of data, no cross-app tracking. SUPPORT Questions, suggestions, or trouble? Reach us at hello@asideai.net. By using Aside you agree to our Privacy Policy (https://asideai.net/privacy).

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scanAll

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Most scanner apps are where documents go to be forgotten. scanAll reads every page you scan — right on your iPhone — so you can find any document by what's written inside it. Search "687.50" and the invoice comes right up, with the amount highlighted on the page. And every feature is free. No paywall, no subscription, no in-app purchase, no forced watermark, no scan limit, no account. FIND ANYTHING • Full-text search across your library — by the words inside your scans, not just the filename • Results open on the matching page, highlighted • Ask "How much was the deposit?" — Find in Documents shows the line where each document says it, flags documents that disagree (best in Korean and English) • Select and copy any recognized text • Documents are named from their contents (with on-device AI on iOS 26 when Apple Intelligence is on) • Organize with folders and tags, and filter by them alongside search • Documents sorted by kind on your device — Receipts, IDs, Business Cards, Finance, Contracts • Find and open documents from Spotlight, Siri or Shortcuts CAPTURE • Camera scanning with automatic edge detection and perspective correction • Multi-page documents in a single scan, or import photos from your library • Bring in PDFs and images from Files or Mail ("Open in scanAll") — one document per file, every page searchable like a scan • Text recognition runs in the background — your scan appears instantly • Start scanning from Shortcuts, Siri ("Start a scan in scanAll"), or a Lock Screen and Control Center control (iOS 18 or later) EDIT • Automatic and manual crop, perspective correction and rotation • Five filters, previewed on your page: Original, Grayscale, Mono, Color, Screen • Delete, reorder, or re-capture individual pages • Redact — text under a blacked-out area is left out of search, copying and exports • Hide Numbers — blacks out sensitive digits of Korean ID, card, account, license and passport numbers • Add pen, highlighter, signatures, stamps and text boxes — signatures are saved on your device for reuse • Stamp & Signature Photos — keep only the ink of a stamp or signature on paper, as a transparent image • Correct recognized text — your fixes carry into search, copying, searchable PDF and text exports • Edit Text — replace a recognized line with new text in a matching size, weight and color RECEIPTS AND BUSINESS CARDS • Expenses (Korean won receipts only) — amount, date, merchant and business number from receipts, reviewed by date and exported to Excel (XLSX) • Save a scanned business card as a new contact with the name, title, company, phone and email filled in EXPORT • PDF — original size, A4 or US Letter • Searchable PDF — the embedded text layer stays searchable everywhere • JPEG and PNG, or save pages straight to Photos • Hangul (HWPX), Word (DOCX), Excel (XLSX) and plain text — text and tables carried over so you can edit them • Review tables before exporting; attach files to a new email in one tap, or save to Files (iCloud Drive, Google Drive and more) • Quality options for PDF and image exports; see the file size, and send a compact copy when mail attachments run large • Password-lock PDFs, add page numbers or a watermark, and put both sides of an ID card on one page at actual size ON-DEVICE & PRIVATE • Text recognition runs entirely on your iPhone, in your iPhone's languages • No account, no sign-in — documents stay on your device, not in a cloud • Back up the whole library to one file in Files, and restore it on a new iPhone • App Lock with Face ID, Touch ID or passcode — while it's on, documents stay out of Spotlight • Your documents and recognized text are never sent anywhere — files go out by email or to a drive only when you choose • The library screen shows ads — personalized only if you allow tracking, and no ads on the scan, edit or export screens • Works offline — only email, drive transfers and ads use the network Free. Private. And your scans are finally findable.

Screenshots

Aside AI Chat4 screens
scanAll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Aside AI Chat at none against scanAll's shown. Aside AI Chat also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Aside AI Chat versus scanAll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAside AI ChatscanAll
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperChameleon Digital Solutions Inc.Jonghyun Kim

In-app purchases

None

Aside AI Chat

No in-app purchases

None

scanAll

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aside AI Chat free?
Aside AI Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is scanAll free?
scanAll is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Aside AI Chat or scanAll have ads?
scanAll shows ads; Aside AI Chat does not.

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