ScanMate vs okLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScanMate
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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
okLens
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okLens is a minimalist document scanner — photograph a paper document, get a clean, auto-cropped copy that stays on your device, and export it as an image or PDF whenever you need to. No account. No cloud. No subscription. WHY okLens Because Microsoft Lens has been discontinued. okLens is the local alternative: your scans live on your device only — never uploaded, never synced, no sign-up. WHAT IT DOES · Camera scanning — manual shutter, so it never fires before you're ready · Smart crop — finds the document edges automatically, drag the corners to fine-tune · Straighten — rotate a skewed shot back into place · Flash — turn on the light when the room is dim · Import from Photos — turn a photo someone sent you into a clean scan · Enhance — automatic contrast and sharpness boost · Export images — send several scans to Photos at once · Make a PDF — merge multiple pages into one file and share it PRIVACY okLens makes no network requests of its own. No servers, no accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Every scan is stored in the app's private storage. Delete a scan and it is gone from the device; delete the app and everything goes with it. Saving to Photos uses add-only permission — okLens cannot read, browse, or delete the photos you already have. Importing goes through Apple's system picker, so it only ever receives the images you pick. PRICING The free version is fully usable; exported images and PDFs carry one small watermark line. A single purchase removes it for good — a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Yours for life, future updates included. LANGUAGES English · 简体中文 · 日本語 · 한국어 · Español · Deutsch
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: okLens at 16.0 against ScanMate's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. ScanMate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and okLens sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
In-app purchases
ScanMate
- Monthly Scan Mate Membership$4.991 Month
- Yearly Scan Mate Membership$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Membership Scan Mate$59.99
okLens
- okLens Pro$4.99









