Documents & Scanner vs Redactly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Documents & Scanner
Organize, search, and secure your personal documents with this app. Scan paper, import digital files, and use AI tools to understand and mask sensitive information. Share documents confidently with enhanced privacy controls.
- Scan documents with camera
- Import images and PDFs
- Organize with vaults and folders
- Searchable document library
- AI-assisted metadata and summaries
- Privacy masking for sensitive info
- Controlled document sharing
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Keep your personal documents organized, searchable, and ready when you need them. DocDuck brings everyday paperwork into one place, from receipts and invoices to letters, contracts, forms, and records. Build a clear personal library instead of letting important documents disappear into drawers, folders, and photo albums. SCAN AND IMPORT • Scan pages with your iPhone or iPad camera. • Import images from Photos and bring in existing PDFs or image files. • Capture multi-page documents and keep related pages together. ORGANIZE YOUR DOCUMENTS • Create vaults and folders for home, work, medical, finance, or any project. • Add tags and useful metadata so documents are easier to sort and recognize. • Search your library to find the document, detail, or file you need. SMART DOCUMENT HELP AI-assisted tools can help add metadata and create summaries, making long or unfamiliar documents easier to understand and manage. PRIVACY MASKING DocDuck can automatically detect and mask personally identifiable information and faces in documents and images. Review the result, adjust it when needed, and protect sensitive details before a document leaves your hands. CONTROLLED SHARING Choose which document to share with another app or person while keeping the original organized in your library. DocDuck helps you scan, organize, understand, and share your personal documents with more confidence — with privacy masking as an extra layer of control when privacy matters. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Redactly
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Need to black out an account number, address or signature in a PDF before you share it? Redactly lets you draw redaction boxes and exports a new PDF where that content is actually removed — not just covered up. Open a PDF, drag to draw black boxes over anything private, page by page, and tap Apply Redaction. Then share the redacted copy or save it to Files. • TRUE REMOVAL — every page with a redaction box is flattened into an image with solid black over your boxes, so the hidden text can't be selected, copied, searched or uncovered by deleting a shape. • DRAW WITH A FINGER — drag to draw a box over text, numbers, photos or signatures; touch and hold a box to remove it, or clear a whole page and start again. • ALL YOUR PAGES — move between pages with the page strip and redact as many pages as you need, up to 300 pages per PDF. • OTHER PAGES STAY SHARP — pages without boxes are copied as they are, so their text stays crisp and selectable, and their links and bookmarks are kept. • NO HIDDEN LEFTOVERS — comments and form annotations are not copied back onto redacted pages — a redacted page carries only what you see on it. • SHARE OR SAVE — send the redacted PDF by Mail or Messages, or save it to Files. Your original file isn't changed. Honest scope: you choose what to redact — Redactly doesn't search for or detect sensitive text automatically, so check every page. Redacted pages become images, so their remaining text is no longer selectable. Password-protected PDFs need to be unlocked first. Everything happens on your iPhone. Your documents are not uploaded and no account is needed. Try it free — 3 redacted PDFs. A one-time $4.99 purchase unlocks unlimited redactions. No subscription, no ads. Questions: overlapmarr@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Redactly at 16.0 against Documents & Scanner's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Documents & Scanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Redactly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Documents & Scanner ships an update every 5 days, Redactly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Documents & Scanner | Redactly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Artur Bielunov | Jhomar Maravillas |
In-app purchases
Documents & Scanner
- DocDuck Pro – Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- DocDuck Pro – Yearly$49.991 Year
Redactly
- Unlock Unlimited$4.99









