Scanbeam vs Expose AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scanbeam
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Scan Pro turns your iPhone into a professional, fully offline PDF scanner and editor. Capture any document with crisp, auto-enhanced quality, then OCR, sign, merge and protect it — all without an account and without your data ever leaving your device. WHY SCAN PRO • 100% offline — your documents never touch a server • No account, no sign-up, no ads • Private by design: on-device OCR, signing and encryption SCAN ANYTHING • Auto edge detection and perspective correction • Multi-page scanning in one tap • Magic Color, Black & White, Grayscale and Whiteboard filters • Import photos from your gallery and turn them into a single PDF POWERFUL OCR (ON-DEVICE) • Extract editable text from scans and images • Latin, Cyrillic (Russian), Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Devanagari (Hindi) • Smart modes for receipts, IDs and business cards • Offline translation of recognized text EDIT & ORGANIZE PDFS • Merge several PDFs into one • Split a PDF by page ranges • Compress to reduce file size • Add watermarks • Reorder, rotate and delete pages • Convert plain text to PDF SIGN DOCUMENTS • Draw your signature once, reuse it on any PDF • Place and resize your signature exactly where you need it PROTECT WHAT MATTERS • AES-256 password protection for any PDF • Encrypted private vault with PIN and Face ID • Set expiry reminders for important documents QR & BARCODES • Real-time QR and barcode scanner OPEN ANYWHERE • Open PDFs and images from other apps right inside Scan Pro • Share your finished PDFs anywhere 22 LANGUAGES Fully localized — including English, Russian, Uzbek, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish and more. PRO Unlock OCR, e-signatures, merge & split, password protection, the encrypted vault, watermarks and unlimited pages with a Pro subscription (monthly, yearly or one-time Lifetime). Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://alisherhakimov.github.io/scanpro-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://alisherhakimov.github.io/scanpro-legal/privacy.html
Expose AI
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Real or AI? Expose AI tells you in seconds — a clear verdict, a confidence score and the evidence behind it. Check any photo, screenshot or link, entirely on your phone. That dating profile, marketplace listing, news photo or viral post: check it before you trust it. No upload, no account — the image never leaves your device. NEW IN THIS VERSION • Deep Scan: two stronger AI models study 12 views of the image — less than half as many “Uncertain” verdicts as a Standard scan* • Region map: see where the AI signal is, and catch AI edits or pasted areas in real photos • Videos & GIFs: checked frame by frame, with one verdict for the whole clip • Find the source: look an image up on Google Lens, Bing or TinEye to see where it first appeared • Check a link: paste a post, page or image link — X (Twitter), Reddit, news sites, blogs — and pick the image to check • Paste from the clipboard, or share images, videos and web pages to Expose AI from any app • “Spot the AI” guide: 10 tells to check yourself, from hands and text to light and shadows • PDF reports (Pro): save or send a record of any verdict, with the file’s SHA-256 fingerprint • Now in English, Español, Português, Deutsch, Français and 日本語 HOW IT WORKS • Metadata check: reads Content Credentials (C2PA), XMP and AI-generator tags — an image that declares Firefly, FLUX, Stable Diffusion or another generator is flagged on the spot • On-device AI models, trained on the visual fingerprints of AI image generators, handle everything else: screenshots, stripped metadata, re-saved files • Standard scan: one fast model, unlimited • Deep Scan: two models × six views each, plus a nine-region scan • A clear call — Likely AI-generated, Likely real or Uncertain — and a “How we decided” card that shows which signal made it CHECK IMAGES FROM ANYWHERE • Choose from your photo library, paste, or share from Photos, Safari and social apps • Check a whole profile or listing at once with Batch (Pro, up to 12 images) • Crop a screenshot down to just the picture • Keep a private history of every verdict, and share a verdict card in one tap PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every scan runs on your device. No account, no sign-up, no upload — detection even works offline. Links are opened directly from your phone, like a browser would. Your history stays on your phone, and you can pause or clear it any time. FREE AND PRO • Free: unlimited Standard scans and 3 Deep Scans to start — plus one more for each short ad you choose to watch. Ad-supported. • Expose AI Pro: unlimited Deep Scans and region maps, Deep Scan on every video frame, Batch check, PDF reports and no ads. A NOTE ON ACCURACY AI-image detection is probabilistic — a signal, not proof. Results vary with editing, compression, screenshots and brand-new generators, and metadata can be stripped or faked. Videos are judged by their frames, so the newest AI video generators can slip through. When the signal is weak, Expose AI says “Uncertain” instead of guessing. Use it as one tool among several, never as the final word about a picture or a person. *Measured on 12,627 test images: about 10% Uncertain with a Deep Scan vs 28% with a Standard scan. SUBSCRIPTION Expose AI Pro is offered as an auto-renewable weekly or annual subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. The exact price and billing period are shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://expose.chinesepowered.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scanbeam at none against Expose AI's 4. Scanbeam also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Expose AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Scanbeam asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Scanbeam | Expose AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 223 MB | 226 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alisher Khakimov | Nelson Lai |
In-app purchases
Scanbeam
No in-app purchases
Expose AI
- Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Annual$29.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$49.99









