Comparison

JuanScan vs Minu

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

Head to head
About

JuanScan

Features
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Your most important papers, encrypted on your phone. Scan once. Sort automatically. Find anything in one tap. JuanScan turns the messy stack in your wallet, your folder, and your kitchen drawer into a private vault you can search in seconds. No account. No cloud. Nothing readable ever leaves this device. One vault, nine drawers โ€ข IDs โ€” PhilSys, driver's license, passport, UMID, SSS, PRC, postal, voter's โ€ข Vehicle papers โ€” OR, CR, registration โ€ข Licenses โ€” professional, business permits โ€ข Receipts โ€” every store, every utility, automatically dated โ€ข Warranties โ€” linked to the receipt and the serial number โ€ข Appliance serial numbers โ€” for when something breaks โ€ข Insurance policies โ€” life, HMO, pre-need โ€ข Business registration โ€” DTI, BIR, SEC, mayor's permit โ€ข Bank QRs โ€” GCash, Maya, BPI, GoTyme, and more Three things JuanScan does well 1. Reads every paper. Point your camera. JuanScan figures out what it is, pulls the important numbers, and files it in the right drawer. 2. Finds anything instantly. Search "Meralco April" or "driver's license" โ€” results in milliseconds, even from papers you scanned months ago. 3. Never lets your papers leave. Every scan is sealed on this device with AES-256-GCM encryption. The key is derived from your PIN. There is no server that holds your data. Quiet reminders JuanScan reads expiry dates off every paper and reminds you 30 days, 7 days, and on the day. No spam. No SMS. Just a notification from your phone. Built for the Philippines, designed to last Knows LTO, BIR, SSS, GSIS, PhilHealth, PhilSys. Reads receipts from SM, Mercury, Maynilad, Meralco, PLDT. Speaks English and Tagalog. Handles `Cruz, Juan A.` the way a Pinoy ID actually reads. Privacy by architecture, not by promise โ€ข No email. No password. No account. โ€ข Face ID to unlock. Six-digit PIN as backup. โ€ข Locks itself after five minutes in the background. โ€ข Erase everything in one tap โ€” your data goes with the app. Free. No subscription. The whole product. โ€” Para sa bawat Juan.

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Minu

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Minu is a note-taker for the meetings you are physically in. Put the phone on the table, press record, and get back a summary, the decisions, action items with owners and due dates, risks and open questions โ€” in a form you can edit lightly and send. CONSENT IS THE FIRST STEP, NOT A SETTING Republic Act 4200 is all-party consent: recording a private conversation without everyone's authorisation is a criminal offence in the Philippines, and the Supreme Court has held that taking part in the conversation is no defence (Ramirez v. CA, G.R. 93833). Minu is built around that. It gives you a notice to read aloud, and then each person says their name and agrees โ€” inside the recording itself, which is where that evidence belongs. A refusal deletes the recording. While the microphone is open a red edge runs along the top and bottom of the screen, so everyone across the table can see it is still recording without having to ask. EVERY NOTE POINTS AT THE SECOND IT CAME FROM Tap a line and the player opens two seconds early and plays that moment, showing the raw transcript around it rather than the note again โ€” you are checking the note against the source. When the model cannot tell where a line came from, it says nothing instead of approximating. A citation that plays the wrong moment is worse than no citation, because somebody will check it. BUILT FOR HOW MEETINGS HERE ACTUALLY SOUND English, Tagalog, or both in the same sentence. Minu is told to leave it as it was said rather than smooth it out. WHAT YOU GET โ€ข Summary, decisions, action items with owners and due dates, risks, open questions โ€ข Mark a moment while the meeting is running โ€” your markers sit above everything the model wrote โ€ข Search inside the meeting you are reading โ€ข Promote any line of the transcript into a note โ€ข Edit anything: the original generation is kept, never overwritten โ€ข Export to PDF, Markdown or plain text, or share straight into any app โ€ข A library of past meetings, on the device WHAT IT CANNOT DO, SAID PLAINLY Minu cannot record Zoom, Google Meet or Teams. iOS gives no app a way to capture another app's audio. Minu is for the meeting in the room โ€” phone on the table. PRIVACY Recordings and notes live on your phone. Audio sent for transcription is deleted immediately afterwards. You can set audio to expire automatically, and the part of the recording that holds everyone's spoken consent is never removed by that policy. TRIAL AND SUBSCRIPTION 60 minutes free, once. After that โ‚ฑ299 a month for roughly 20 hours of processing. Recording itself is never blocked by your balance โ€” everyone in the room has just agreed out loud inside that audio, and cutting them off over a meter would be the wrong thing to do. The charge lands when the transcript comes back. Terms of Use (EULA): https://jhereedev.github.io/minu-privacy/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://jhereedev.github.io/minu-privacy/privacy.html

Screenshots

JuanScan4 screens
Minu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JuanScan at none against Minu's 1. JuanScan also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). Minu's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Minu sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. JuanScan asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JuanScan ships an update every 3 days, Minu every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
JuanScan versus Minu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJuanScanMinu
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS16.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size81 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeinrich PicarJheremiah Figueroa

In-app purchases

None

JuanScan

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Minu

Subscriptions1
  • Minu Pro$4.991 Month

Questions

Is JuanScan free?
JuanScan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Minu free?
Minu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do JuanScan or Minu have ads?
Neither JuanScan nor Minu shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JuanScan or Minu?
JuanScan ships an update every 3 days, and Minu every 2 weeks. Most recently, JuanScan was updated on October 16, 2026 and Minu on October 14, 2026.

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