Smart vs Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart
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Smart PDF — PDF tools that fit real life Smart PDF is an all-in-one PDF utility designed for students, freelancers, professionals, small businesses, and everyday users who work with documents regularly. Instead of relying on multiple applications for different PDF tasks, Smart PDF brings essential document tools together in a single, easy-to-use mobile experience. CREATE PDFs FROM IMAGES Convert photos, screenshots, notes, receipts, forms, invoices, and other images into professional PDF documents. Import images from your gallery, arrange pages in the desired order, and generate a PDF ready for sharing, printing, or archiving. MERGE MULTIPLE PDF FILES Combine multiple PDF documents into a single organized file. Whether you need to merge lecture notes, contracts, reports, invoices, or project files, Smart PDF helps you keep everything together in one convenient document. COMPRESS PDF FILES Reduce PDF file size without sacrificing readability. Compression makes documents easier to upload, email, share through messaging apps, and store on your device. This feature is especially useful when dealing with large image-heavy PDF files. SCAN DOCUMENTS USING YOUR CAMERA Transform your smartphone into a portable document scanner. Capture paper documents, receipts, notes, agreements, forms, and other printed materials directly from your device and convert them into clean digital PDFs. OCR TEXT RECOGNITION Extract text from images and scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Convert printed content into editable and searchable text that can be copied, reused, or shared. OCR works best with clear, well-lit images and high-quality scans. ORGANIZE DOCUMENTS EFFICIENTLY Rearrange PDF pages to create a logical document structure. Move pages, organize content, and prepare documents for professional sharing, presentation, or storage. EASY SHARING Share completed PDFs through email, messaging applications, cloud storage services, and other platforms. Smart PDF integrates naturally into your existing workflow so you can work more efficiently wherever you are. DESIGNED FOR EVERYDAY PRODUCTIVITY Smart PDF is built with simplicity in mind. The clean and intuitive interface focuses on the tasks users perform most often, making it easy to create, edit, organize, and share PDF documents without unnecessary complexity. PERFECT FOR: • Students managing assignments, notes, and lecture materials • Freelancers sending contracts, proposals, and portfolios • Professionals handling reports, forms, and business documents • Small businesses organizing invoices and records • Home users digitizing paperwork and household documents FEATURES • Image to PDF conversion • PDF merging • PDF compression • Document scanning • OCR text extraction • Page organization • Easy document sharing • Fast and mobile-friendly workflow Download Smart PDF today and simplify the way you create, manage, and share PDF documents.
Scanner
Easily scan any document, ID card, or photo and convert it into a clean PDF. The app automatically detects edges, straightens images, and allows you to sign, edit, and share your documents directly from your device.
- Automatic edge detection and image correction
- Special mode for ID cards and small documents
- Text recognition for searchable scans
- In-app signature and editing tools
- Organize scans into folders
- Import photos to create PDFs
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Point your camera at any page and get a clean PDF. Scanner finds the edges, straightens the image and saves a file you can sign, edit and send. SCAN ANY PAPER DOCUMENT Hold your phone over a page and the app finds the borders for you. It corrects the angle, so the result looks like a flat page and not a photo taken from above. It crops away the table around the paper and evens out shadows and glare. Capture one page or twenty, and they all land in the same file, in the order you shot them. ID CARDS AND SMALL DOCUMENTS Driver's licenses, insurance cards, business cards and passports have their own capture mode. Front and back go on one page, side by side, so what you send looks like a copy of the card instead of two loose photos. SEARCH THE TEXT INSIDE YOUR SCANS Scanner runs text recognition on what you capture, so you can search your library by what is written inside a document and not only by its file name. Look up a name or an invoice number to pull up the page it appears on. Select a paragraph, copy it, and paste it into an email or a note. SIGN AND SEND IT BACK Draw your signature once and keep it. Drop it anywhere on a contract, add the date, fill in the blanks the form leaves you, and send the signed copy straight from the app. You never have to print a page just to sign it and scan it back. EDIT BEFORE YOU SHARE Reorder pages, rotate them, and delete the ones that came out wrong. Add new pages to a file you scanned last week. Rename a document so you can find it later, and pick black and white, grayscale or color for each page. TURN PHOTOS INTO PDFS Import pictures from your camera roll and convert them the same way. Pick a few images and they become one document you can send as a single file. SHARE IT ANYWHERE Export every scan as a PDF file. Send a document by email or message, or save it into Files. PDF is a standard format, so the people you send it to can open it without installing anything. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Keep your scans in folders you name. Move documents between folders, star the ones you come back to, and search across all of them at once. Privacy Policy: https://static.appscanner.co/privacy-en.html Terms and Conditions: https://static.appscanner.co/terms-conditions-en.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smart at none against Scanner's 4. Smart also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). On price 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
Both are free to download. Scanner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Smart | Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.9 (11 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shehryar Shujat | DEEP FLOW SOFTWARE SERVICES |
In-app purchases
Smart
No in-app purchases
Scanner
- Scanner Pro 1 Week$9.997 Days
- Scanner Pro 1 Week3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Scanner Pro 1 Week7 Days trial$9.997 Days
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- Scanner Pro 1 Year$39.991 Year









