Scanner vs Glean

Turn paper into a clean, searchable PDF in seconds, then merge, organize, sign and share it without your documents leaving your iPhone. SCAN AND CLEAN • Scan documents, receipts, ID cards, books and whiteboards with automatic edge detection. • Review every page before saving: crop, rotate, retake, and apply filters for sharp black-and-white or colour pages. • Text recognition (OCR) makes scanned pages searchable and lets you copy the text. A COMPLETE PDF STUDIO • Merge PDFs and images into one document, in the order you choose. • Organize pages: reorder, rotate, delete, split and extract pages. • Add watermarks, stamps and page numbers. • Sign and fill documents, annotate and highlight. • Compress PDFs, add or remove a password, and convert PDFs to images. • Open PDFs and photos from Files, Mail and other apps. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Scanning, editing and text recognition run on your iPhone. • No account is needed to use the app. • Scanning, editing and exporting work offline. • Documents stay on your device until you choose to share them. What Scanner Premium adds • Ask PDF: ask questions about a document and get summaries. • Translate: translate the recognised text of a document. • Redaction: remove sensitive text from a page, not just cover it. • Count & area: count objects and measure rooms and surfaces. Scanner Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, with a one-time option where offered. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://arioapps.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://arioapps.com/privacy

Glean turns your iPhone into a fast, private document scanner. Capture any document, clean it up, and get a crisp, searchable PDF — kept right on your device. Connect Google Drive only if you want a cloud copy. Glean has no servers of its own, so your documents stay yours. SCAN • Multi-page scanning with automatic edge detection and perspective correction • One-tap "Clean up" removes shadows and glare, whitens the page, and sharpens text • Crop, rotate, filters, and brightness / contrast / saturation controls SEARCHABLE PDFs • On-device text recognition (OCR) turns every scan into a searchable PDF • Find and copy the text inside your documents — no internet required YOUR STORAGE, YOUR CHOICE • Every scan is saved on your device, and is even accessible in the Files app • Optionally connect Google Drive to save PDFs into a folder you choose • Works fully offline — Google Drive is never required ORGANIZE • Combine several scans into one PDF, or split a multi-page scan into separate files • Rename, search, and manage everything in one place • Import existing PDFs from your Drive folder PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Scanning and text recognition happen on your device • No analytics, no tracking, and no servers that ever see your documents • Sign in with Apple or Google — and delete your account and data anytime Glean developed and designed by Zahid Hussain at TechFoundry · © 2026