Comparison

PDF Scanner vs Scan Flow

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

Head to head
About

PDF Scanner

Transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner and PDF editor. Digitize receipts, contracts, and IDs, then easily edit, organize, and share them. All your documents are stored securely on your device for complete privacy.

Highlights
  • Multi-page document scanning
  • Create PDFs from photos, text, and webpages
  • Edit PDFs with signatures, text, and watermarks
  • Merge, split, and export PDF pages
  • On-device OCR for text extraction
  • Organize and search all your PDFs
Features
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PDF Scanner turns your iPhone or iPad into a document scanner and PDF toolkit. Scan receipts, contracts, notes, and ID cards, then edit, organize, and share — stored on your device. SCAN TO PDF • Scan multi-page documents with your camera • Manual or automatic capture • Scan ID cards and passports (two cards per page) • Filters: Color, Enhanced, Grayscale, or Black & White • Review and remove pages before saving CREATE PDFs • Photos to PDF — combine images into one file • Text to PDF — type or paste notes with formatting • Web to PDF — save a webpage as a PDF • Import PDFs and images from the Files app EDIT & ORGANIZE • Reorder, rotate, and delete pages • Add signatures, text, watermarks, and page numbers • Erase marks and white-out regions • Enhance contrast and compress file size • Merge PDFs or split by page range • Export pages as JPG images • Extract text with on-device OCR, export as RTF YOUR LIBRARY • Search, sort, and browse saved PDFs • Rename, share, and print • Thumbnail previews and storage insights PRIVATE BY DESIGN Documents stay on your device. No cloud upload and no account required. Designed for iPhone and iPad.

About

Scan Flow

Features
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Scan Flow turns paper into clean, multi-page PDFs, fast. Point your camera at a document, receipt, or note, and Scan Flow auto-detects the edges, straightens the page, and adds it to your document. Reorder the pages, name it, and you have a polished multi-page PDF ready to share. No subscription. No account. Nothing leaves your device. SCAN ANYTHING • Auto edge-detection and perspective correction • Multi-page capture: keep adding pages in one go • Or import existing photos straight from your library CLEAN, TIDY PAGES • Pages are laid out on uniform US-Letter sheets, never stretched or cropped • Combine many pages into one polished multi-page PDF PUT IT IN ORDER • Drag pages to reorder them • Delete or retake any page • Name your document before you export SHARE YOUR WAY • Export a single multi-page PDF • Or save every page as JPEGs bundled into one .zip • Send to Files, Mail, Messages, AirDrop, or print PRIVATE BY DESIGN • 100% on-device. No cloud, no tracking, no sign-in. FREE & PRO Scan Flow is free to use for documents up to 2 pages. Unlock Scan Flow Pro once ($4.99) for unlimited pages and ZIP export. One purchase, yours forever, no subscription.

Screenshots

PDF Scanner3 screens
Scan Flow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PDF Scanner at none against Scan Flow's 1. Scan Flow's advantage is 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Scan Flow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PDF Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
PDF Scanner versus Scan Flow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF ScannerScan Flow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAli NawazAll Good Folks Limited

In-app purchases

None

PDF Scanner

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Scan Flow

One-time1
  • Scan Flow Pro$4.99

Questions

Is PDF Scanner free?
PDF Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scan Flow free?
Scan Flow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PDF Scanner or Scan Flow have ads?
PDF Scanner shows ads; Scan Flow does not.

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