Scanora vs PDF Reader&Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scanora
Transform your device into a powerful document scanner. Effortlessly digitize paper documents like receipts, contracts, and notes. Features include automatic edge detection, perspective correction, and OCR for searchable text. Save and share your scanned documents as high-quality PDFs.
- Automatic document and edge detection
- Multi-page scanning
- Perspective correction and cropping
- OCR text recognition
- PDF export and sharing
- Smart document naming
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Turn your iPhone into a fast, beautifully simple document scanner with Scanora. Scan receipts, contracts, notes, forms, invoices, and other paper documents. Scanora automatically detects page edges, corrects perspective, and helps you create clean, readable PDFs in seconds. SMART DOCUMENT SCANNING • Automatic document and edge detection • Multi-page document scanning • Perspective correction and precise cropping • Add, remove, retake, rotate, and reorder pages • Filters for clearer, more readable documents OCR & SEARCH Recognize text inside your scans with OCR and quickly search your document library to find the information you need. EDIT BEFORE YOU SAVE Review every page before exporting. Crop unwanted areas, rotate pages, apply document filters, change the page order, or add another page without starting over. SMART DOCUMENT NAMES Use suggested document names to save your scans faster and keep your document library easier to browse. SAVE & SHARE AS PDF Create high-quality PDF documents, save them to your device, or share them through AirDrop, Messages, Mail, Files, and other apps. SCANORA PRO The free version supports up to 3 saved documents with up to 5 pages per document. Upgrade to Scanora Pro for: • Unlimited documents • Unlimited pages Scanora is designed for students, professionals, small businesses, travelers, and anyone who wants a quick and reliable way to digitize paper documents. Terms of Use (EULA): https://guru-apps.com/scanora-terms Privacy Policy: https://guru-apps.com/privacy
PDF Reader&Scanner
Easily scan, organize, read, and share paper documents. Convert physical files into digital PDFs, extract text using OCR, and manage your PDF library. This tool is designed for everyday document processing in life, study, and work.
- Scan paper documents to PDF
- Import existing PDF files
- OCR text recognition
- Create PDFs from photos
- Merge multiple photos into one PDF
- Edit PDF pages (add/delete/crop)
- Preview, search, share, and delete PDFs
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This PDF Reader & Scanner is a PDF work tool focused on everyday paper document processing, helping you easily scan, organize, read, and share. Main Features: Scan Easily convert paper documents or receipts into PDF files for easy viewing anytime, anywhere. Import PDF Files Import existing PDF files from your mobile device using the "Files" app. OCR Recognition Extract text from images using your device's built-in text recognition function. PDF Files You can select photos from your album to create a PDF file, or import multiple photos and merge them into one PDF file. Preview, search, share, and delete local PDF files. Easily add or delete PDF pages and crop pages. Access to your camera and photos is only requested when you select a scan or photo-based workflow. This is a user-friendly, intuitive, and practical PDF work tool suitable for organizing receipts, certificates, study materials, contracts, forms, and other everyday paper documents, meeting your PDF processing needs in life, study, and work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Scanora at none against PDF Reader&Scanner's shown. Scanora also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). PDF Reader&Scanner's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scanora against 5.0 for PDF Reader&Scanner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Scanora ships an update every 3 days, PDF Reader&Scanner daily. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scanora | PDF Reader&Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GuruApps, LLC | Fuzhou Tufei Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Scanora
PDF Reader&Scanner
In-app purchases
Scanora
No in-app purchases
PDF Reader&Scanner
No in-app purchases
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