Comparison

Scanly vs MyAppStudio

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

Head to head
About

Scanly

Features
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Scanly is a fast, private PDF toolkit: scan paper documents, turn photos into PDFs, shrink large files, sign contracts and mark up pages — right on your iPhone. SCAN DOCUMENTS TO PDF • Scan receipts, contracts, notes and book pages with your camera • Capture several pages in a row and save them as one PDF • Combine photos from your library into a single PDF COMPRESS PDF • Reduce PDF file size in seconds for email and upload limits • Choose Low, Medium or High compression to balance size and quality • See exactly how many MB you saved SIGN & EDIT PDF • Draw your signature and place it on any page • Highlight important passages • Type text directly onto pages — fill in forms and add notes • Draw freely with your finger or Apple Pencil READ & ORGANIZE • Smooth PDF reader with quick page navigation • Organize documents into folders • Open PDFs shared from Mail, Files, Safari and chat apps PRIVATE BY DESIGN Files are processed on your device — they are not uploaded to our servers for scanning, compression, signing or editing. SCANLY VIP • No ads • Cloud sync & backup across devices • No watermark on scanned PDFs • Unlimited compression, including High • Unlimited scan pages Free version: up to 3 compressions per day and 5 pages per scan, with ads. VIP is available as a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription (with a 3-day free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://2sbrain.net/scanly/privacy.html

About

MyAppStudio

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MyApp Studio turns a conversation on your phone into a working app. Describe what you need — by typing or by talking — a watering tracker for your mom, the family recipes with timers, a workout log for yourself, and an AI assistant designs and builds a working mini-app ("a MyApp") in minutes. Then send it to the people you made it for with a link, or build one your whole household uses together. HOW IT WORKS • Tell the assistant what you need. It asks a few clarifying questions, then designs and builds your app while you watch its progress. • Preview the result live and keep refining by conversation: "add a chart," "make the theme green," "sort by date." You can also tap an element in the preview to tell the assistant exactly what to change. • Your finished apps live on your dashboard, ready to open and use any time — no code, no templates, nothing to configure by hand. WHAT YOUR APPS CAN DO • Store your data in tables and display it as lists, grids, forms, charts, or custom interactive views • Take photos with your camera • Take in a file, link or note you share from another app — a text note, a recipe page, a contact card • Start a call, text, email or Maps search with the details filled in — you always decide whether to send • Work offline once built — your data is saved on your device and synced to your account • Be shared with other MyApp Studio users as a copy, or used together in a group MyApp whose shared lists update live for everyone you invite SANDBOXED BY DESIGN Every MyApp is built from standard web technology (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and runs inside MyApp Studio, in a secure sandbox isolated from the rest of your phone. A MyApp sees only what you enter or choose to share into it, and reaches the camera, notifications and other device features only through the standard iOS prompts and screens. PRIVACY FIRST • Data tables the AI identifies as personal — journals, health logs, and similar — are end-to-end encrypted on your device before they ever leave it. What they hold is stored only as ciphertext; without your device's key or your passphrase, no one (including us) can read it. The one exception is a value you hand to an AI lookup as you enter it, which is sent to the AI to get its answer. • The AI service that builds your MyApps is not permitted to train on your content — the terms we use it under prohibit it. We do look at what people ask the assistant to build, so we can keep making it better at building things; that improves our own instructions to the AI, and never trains an AI model on what you create. • No ads, no third-party analytics or tracking SDKs, and your data is never sold. VOICE, IF YOU WANT IT Voice mode is optional: the microphone is never activated until you explicitly choose "Use Microphone," and you can always type instead. Speech is transcribed by your device's speech recognition service; raw audio is never uploaded to our servers. FREE TO START Your account includes free apps, and Plan & Usage shows how many you have used. An optional MyApp Studio Plus subscription adds more apps each month. It renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple ID's subscription settings. ACCOUNT & SYNC Sign in with Apple or Google (an account is required — your apps and their data are tied to it and synced across your devices). An internet connection is required to create or edit apps, since generation runs on our backend AI service. Using an already-built app works offline. Terms of Use: https://myappstudio.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://myappstudio.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Scanly4 screens
MyAppStudio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: MyAppStudio at none against Scanly's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Scanly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and MyAppStudio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scanly ships an update every 10 days, MyAppStudio every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Scanly versus MyAppStudio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanlyMyAppStudio
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNguyen Nhu VuongClearbrook Software, LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Scanly

Subscriptions2
  • VIP Monthly$3.991 Month
  • VIP Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • VIP Lifetime$39.99
2 purchases

MyAppStudio

Subscriptions2
  • MyApp Studio Plus - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • MyApp Studio Plus - Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Scanly free?
Scanly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MyAppStudio free?
MyAppStudio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Scanly or MyAppStudio have ads?
Scanly shows ads; MyAppStudio does not.
Which is updated more often, Scanly or MyAppStudio?
Scanly ships an update every 10 days, and MyAppStudio every 9 days. Most recently, Scanly was updated on October 24, 2026 and MyAppStudio on October 24, 2026.

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