ScanOwl vs KaranScan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScanOwl
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ScanOwl is a private document workspace for scanning documents and IDs, importing PDFs and images, adding signatures and watermarks, extracting text, organizing pages, and exporting clean files. Every scan comes out flat and straight: tilted shots square themselves up, page edges snap precisely into place, and crease shadows or uneven lighting lift away for a clean, copier-white page — with a quick corner check before you save. Merge, split, compress, reorder, convert, or protect documents from one app. Document contents, scans, signatures, and OCR text are processed on your device and are not uploaded to our servers. With your permission, ScanOwl sends optional usage, diagnostic, and subscription analytics with random app identifiers to its Cloudflare-hosted operations service and RevenueCat. You can turn this off at any time in More settings; declining does not affect scanning or purchasing. Apple processes payments. RevenueCat processes the subscription identifiers, purchase history, and access status needed to validate and restore purchases. ScanOwl Pro is available through auto-renewable subscriptions. Available plans, billing periods, local prices, and any eligible free trial are shown in the app and confirmed in the App Store purchase sheet. A trial is available only when your Apple ID and selected plan qualify. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in App Store account settings. Pro includes multipage scanning, OCR, unlimited exports, and a clean ad-free document workflow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://scanowl-ops.pauley-apps.workers.dev/privacy?lang=en
KaranScan
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KaranScan is a document scanner that thinks for you. Snap the paper and it crops it, names it by its content and keeps it only on your phone — no account, no cloud. Later you find it by what's written inside. WHY KARANSCAN • No cloud, no sign-up: your documents stay on your phone • Names each document by its content — no more "Scan 2026-10-10" • Find it by the text inside: a name, an invoice number, a street • Handles folded corners and keeps the whole page • Translates whole documents into 5 languages and converts them to Word SCANNING • Finds the edges of the page and takes the shot as soon as you hold still • Straightens perspective; Original keeps the colours as in the photo, Enhanced whitens the paper and sharpens the text • Folded paper: when part of the page sticks out, it crops that part in too • Rotate and adjust corners right in the preview, multi-page PDFs • Import from Photos and Files, including existing PDFs TEXT IN YOUR DOCUMENTS • Search document names and the text of every document • Select and copy text right on the page • Text in shared PDFs is searchable and copyable • Convert to Word SMART FEATURES (you turn them on) • Names by content, e.g. "Invoice – Elektro Novák – 3 Sep 2026" • An overview of what matters — amount, due date, reference, account number — copied with one tap • Translation into English, Czech, German, Polish and Ukrainian, also as a bilingual PDF They are processed by AI; only the recognised text is sent, never images or signatures. EDITING AND ORGANISING • Sign with your finger and add your own text anywhere on the page • Crop, rotate and reorder pages; the original always stays untouched • Folders, share several documents at once, smaller PDFs for email • Face ID or Touch ID lock PREMIUM Scanning, editing, enhanced scan, Live Text and one custom folder are free. Premium adds documents without a watermark, smart features, import, signature and custom text, search inside documents, unlimited folders, sharing several documents at once, smaller PDFs and Word. • KaranScan Premium subscription, monthly or yearly, first 14 days free • Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://karan-solutions.cz/karanscan/soukromi/ Available in English, Czech, German, Polish and Ukrainian.
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Verdict
ScanOwl and KaranScan are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. ScanOwl sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and KaranScan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ScanOwl ships an update every 6 days, KaranScan every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | ScanOwl | KaranScan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 小飞 刘 | Karan Solutions s.r.o. |
In-app purchases
ScanOwl
- QuickSign Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- QuickSign Pro Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
KaranScan
- Premium Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Premium Yearly14 Days trial$22.991 Year





