Comparison

ScanMate vs PageVo

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

Head to head
About

ScanMate

Features
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ScanMate turns your iPhone into a fast, private document scanner — without the ads, watermarks, and subscription traps you're tired of. FREE, AND STAYING FREE • Unlimited scans — no daily limits • No watermark on any export • No ads, anywhere • Automatic edge detection, manual crop with a magnifier • Multi-page and batch scanning • Enhancement filters: Auto, Grayscale, B&W, Color • Sign pages, reuse saved signatures, drop in a date stamp • Expiry reminders for passports, IDs, insurance, and contracts • Export to PDF, JPG, or PNG; share or save to Files • Folders, tags, search, favorites, and Trash • Face ID app lock • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Control Center button, Siri and Shortcuts • Find any scan straight from Spotlight SCANMATE PRO • Offline OCR in more than 15 languages • Search inside your documents • AI naming and document classification • Receipt, invoice, and business-card extraction — save cards to Contacts • Receipt ledger with monthly totals and CSV export • Smart cleanup and background removal • PDF tools: merge, split, reorder, compress • Export to Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive • Unlimited private folders PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your iPhone. Scans and text recognition never touch our servers. Documents sync through your own iCloud account — we never see them. Locked documents and private folders never appear in widgets or Spotlight. HONEST PRICING A genuinely useful free tier that stays free. One fair yearly plan, or buy Pro once with Lifetime. No fake countdowns, no surprise trial charges, no dark patterns. Cancel anytime in Settings. Built for students, small businesses, freelancers, accountants, lawyers, real estate agents, teachers, and parents. Scan a receipt, a contract, a whiteboard, or a stack of notes — and get a clean, professional PDF in seconds. — Questions? support@scanmate.app — a real person answers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jigsawlab.com/scanmate/privacy.html

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PageVo

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PageVo turns your iPhone into a fast, crisp and genuinely private document scanner. No mandatory accounts and nothing uploaded to the cloud: all processing happens on your device. Scan contracts, receipts, notes or IDs in seconds. PageVo detects the edges, corrects perspective and applies the right filter so every page looks flawless. FREE, ALWAYS • Edge detection and perspective correction • Capture modes: Document, Whiteboard, Black & white and Photo • Multi-page: crop, rotate, reorder and delete pages • Export to PDF, JPG, PNG, Word, Excel and TXT • Organize into folders and search by name • Merge and extract pages, compress and password-protect • On-device OCR (text recognition) to copy or search the text PAGEVO PREMIUM • No ads • Remove shadows and clean the background • Advanced OCR: multi-language and handwriting • Sign and annotate on the document • Translate recognized text, on-device • Batch import several photos from your library into one document REAL PRIVACY Your documents — images, recognized text and file names — never leave your phone. We don't ask for an account to get started, and we never collect the content of your documents. — PageVo Premium is a one-time purchase: pay once, keep it forever. No subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use: https://pagevoapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://pagevoapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

ScanMate4 screens
PageVo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ScanMate at none against PageVo's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. ScanMate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and PageVo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScanMate ships an update every 2 weeks, PageVo weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
ScanMate versus PageVo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScanMatePageVo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiCometMaurizzio Penalba

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ScanMate

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Scan Mate Membership$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Scan Mate Membership$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Membership Scan Mate$59.99
1 purchases

PageVo

One-time1
  • PageVo Premium$5.99

Questions

Is ScanMate free?
ScanMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PageVo free?
PageVo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ScanMate or PageVo have ads?
PageVo shows ads; ScanMate does not.
Which is updated more often, ScanMate or PageVo?
ScanMate ships an update every 2 weeks, and PageVo weekly. Most recently, ScanMate was updated on September 25, 2026 and PageVo on September 30, 2026.

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