Comparison

MyScanner vs Buckets

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

Head to head
About

MyScanner

Transform paper documents and everyday codes into digital assets. Easily create clear PDFs, extract editable text using OCR, and scan QR and barcodes. Organize, share, and access your information privately and efficiently.

Highlights
  • Create polished PDFs from documents
  • Scan QR codes and barcodes
  • Extract editable text with OCR
  • Organize scans in folders
  • Share scans via multiple methods
  • Edge detection and perspective correction
Features
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Turn paper clutter and everyday codes into useful digital information in seconds. MyScanner helps you create clear PDFs, capture editable text, and open QR and barcode results—all in one private, easy-to-use app. • Create polished PDFs from receipts, contracts, forms, notes, IDs, and whiteboards • Read QR codes and barcodes to open links, connect to Wi-Fi, or save useful details • Extract editable text from documents and photos with OCR • Organize scans in folders and share them by email, messaging, AirDrop, or cloud apps • Keep scan history handy for later Capture a document and MyScanner detects its edges and corrects the perspective. Improve readability with color, grayscale, or black-and-white filters, then arrange pages and combine them into a PDF. Point your camera at a QR code or barcode to get a quick result, even in low light with flashlight support. Open, copy, share, or save scan results for later. Turn printed or photographed words into editable text with OCR. Copy the text or send it to notes, messages, email, and other apps. Scanning and OCR processing happen directly on your device to help keep your documents private. Whether you’re a student, professional, small business owner, traveler, or shopper, MyScanner puts document scanning and code reading in one place. Download MyScanner and clear the paper clutter today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Buckets

This app helps you manage your time by setting weekly intentions for different life areas. It allows you to block out time, run focus sessions, and confirm actual time spent, ensuring your week reflects your priorities. All data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Set weekly intentions for life areas
  • Block time on your calendar
  • Run focus sessions with a timer
  • Confirm actual time spent
  • Calendar mirroring
  • Health app integration for workouts
  • Data export to JSON
Features
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Where does your week actually go? Buckets holds the parts of your life that matter, work, movement, sleep, family, and gives each one a weekly intention: how much time you actually want to pour in. Then it helps you protect that time before the week gets noisy. HOW IT WORKS Bucket. One area of your life, with a weekly intention. Work. Movement. Sleep. Family. Study. Faith. Whatever yours are. Block. You protect time for a Bucket by placing a Block on your calendar, in advance. A promise made to yourself while the week is still quiet. Session. When the Block arrives you start a focus session, and the timer runs. Work, move, rest, read. The session just holds the time. Pour. When you finish you confirm what actually happened, and only then does it pour into the Bucket. A Pour is never recorded without you. That last part is the whole point. Buckets does not watch you, guess at you, or fill itself in behind your back. Your week is only as full as you say it is, which is what makes the number worth looking at. YOUR WEEK, IN ONE PLACE Vessels for each Bucket that fill as the week goes on A plan timeline where you drag a Bucket onto the day to protect time Your existing calendar shown alongside, so open space stays honest Widgets for today's plan, one Bucket's ring, and how the week is filling A Live Activity and Dynamic Island for the running session Morning and evening moments, a daily reflection, and a weekly close Shortcuts for starting and finishing a session by voice ON YOUR DEVICE, AND NOWHERE ELSE No account. No sign up. No server. Every Bucket, Block, Session and Pour lives in the app's own database on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is sold, nothing leaves the device unless you choose to connect your calendar or Health. FREE, AND PRO Free holds one Bucket, with the full day, sessions, reflections, and every Pour you ever confirm. Buckets Pro holds as many Buckets as your life has parts, plus repeating Blocks, calendar mirroring, workouts that arrive ready to pour from Health, and export of every confirmed Pour as plain readable JSON. Built by one person, in Swift, for iPhone on iOS 18 and later. SUBSCRIPTION Buckets Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Buckets Pro (Yearly): $39.99 per year, with a 1 week free trial for new subscribers. Buckets Pro (Monthly): $6.99 per month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. If you take the free trial, any unused portion of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://buckets-app-xi.vercel.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://buckets-app-xi.vercel.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

MyScanner4 screens
Buckets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Buckets at none against MyScanner's shown. Buckets also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. MyScanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Buckets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MyScanner against 5.0 for Buckets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MyScanner versus Buckets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyScannerBuckets
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPuzzle Mania StudioRami Salameh

Customer experience

MyScanner

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Buckets

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MyScanner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Purchase$24.99
2 purchases

Buckets

Subscriptions2
  • Buckets Pro$6.991 Month
  • Buckets Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is MyScanner free?
MyScanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Buckets free?
Buckets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MyScanner or Buckets?
MyScanner and Buckets are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do MyScanner or Buckets have ads?
MyScanner shows ads; Buckets does not.

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