Comparison

DocClear vs PDF Document Scanner

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

Head to head
About

DocClear

Transform your iPhone into a professional document scanner. Capture, crop, and enhance pages for crisp PDFs. Features include OCR, translation, and AI-powered restoration for damaged documents. Export to various formats without an account.

Highlights
  • Automatic edge detection and cropping
  • Perspective correction
  • OCR for text recognition
  • AI-powered document restoration
  • Document translation (Spanish/English)
  • Export to PDF, JPG, RTF, TXT
  • No account required
Features
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DocClear turns your iPhone into a professional document scanner. Frame the page, capture it, and get a clean, sharp, perfectly cropped document that is ready to send as a PDF. BUILT FOR REAL PAPER Automatic edge detection finds the sheet and crops the background out, so what you send is the document and nothing else. Perspective correction squares up the page even when you shoot at an angle. The cleanup pass evens out shadows and deepens the blacks, so the text reads dark and crisp instead of gray and washed out, on contracts, IDs, receipts, forms, notes and handwriting alike. WHAT YOU CAN DO Scan one page or many into a single document. Export to PDF or to JPG in one tap. Read the text with OCR in Spanish and English, then copy it or search it. Restore damaged pages with AI: stains, shadows, creases and faded ink. Translate a document between Spanish and English. Convert a PDF to Word (RTF) or to plain TXT. Share by message, mail or AirDrop straight from the app. Switch the whole app between Spanish and English instantly, from Settings. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED DocClear asks for no email, no phone number and no password. Your scans are stored on your device, encrypted at rest, and they are never uploaded anywhere unless you choose to use one of the AI features. DOCCLEAR PRO Scanning, PDF and JPG export, OCR, PDF to Word (RTF) and PDF to TXT are free, with no monthly limit. Documents exported on the free tier carry a small "Scanned with DocClear" mark. DocClear PRO adds: AI restoration of damaged pages. AI document translation between Spanish and English. MegaScan HD, the highest-detail scan mode. No watermark on the document. Priority email support. New PRO features at no extra cost. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Title: DocClear PRO. Length and price: 1 month for USD 9.99, or 1 year for USD 39.99. Free trial: both plans include a 7-day free trial, offered only to customers who have not already used an introductory offer in this subscription group. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the price in effect unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage the subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after the purchase; deleting the app does not cancel it. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://tramistepsus-ship-it.github.io/docclear-legal/terminos.html Privacy Policy: https://tramistepsus-ship-it.github.io/docclear-legal/privacidad.html ABOUT THE AI FEATURES AI restoration and document translation are optional and run on a server. Nothing is sent until you tap the button and accept the notice. Our server acts as a secure relay and keeps no copy of your document. These features are subject to fair-use limits so the service stays available for everyone. AI can make mistakes: the result is not a certified translation or legal advice, and it does not replace a certified translator, an attorney or a notary. Review it before using it for any official filing. Support: salmeronstudiosllc@gmail.com

About

PDF Document Scanner

Features
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Paper in front of you. A clean, searchable PDF in your own iCloud a moment later. That is the whole job, and Pageora does it without an account, without a server, and without a subscription. SCAN, OR BRING PHOTOS YOU ALREADY HAVE Point the camera at any paper — letters, contracts, receipts, handwritten notes. Pages are straightened automatically, cleaned up in color, grayscale, or crisp document black & white, and read by on-device text recognition so every PDF is searchable and its text selectable. Already photographed it? Import JPG, HEIC or PNG straight from your photo library, or bring in an existing PDF. Imported photos get the same straightening, the same cleanup and the same text recognition as a live scan. YOURS, IN YOUR ICLOUD Every scan is saved as a normal PDF in your own iCloud Drive — visible in the Files app, synced to your other devices, and still yours if you ever delete the app. Pageora has no server. Nothing you scan ever leaves your devices and your iCloud. FIND ANYTHING Search finds words from inside your documents, not just titles — including from your iPhone's Home Screen search. Where Apple Intelligence is available, scans name and tag themselves on your device; everywhere else they are named from the date and the first line of recognised text. REDACTION THAT MEANS IT Draw a box over anything sensitive and the text underneath is deleted from the PDF, not covered. Copy, extraction, and search find nothing — because nothing is there. EDIT PAGES Reorder by drag, rotate, retake a single page, delete pages, add tags, rename freely. MORE, IF YOU WANT IT Pageora Unlimited adds sign & date, merge and split, find-and-redact across a whole document, export to text, spreadsheet or receipt CSV, archival PDF/A, password-protected PDFs, fit-to-email sizing, filing rules that tag scans for you as they arrive, a Face ID locked folder that hides documents from the library, from search and from Siri, duplicate finding, and a one-file backup of your whole library. PAY ONCE, OR DON'T The free app is the full scanner for up to 10 documents — full quality, no watermarks, no ads, iCloud included. Pageora Unlimited lifts the limit and turns the rest on, for a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. Privacy: Pageora collects no data. There is no analytics, no tracking, no account. The privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because that is the truth.

Screenshots

DocClear4 screens
PDF Document Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DocClear at 17.0 against PDF Document Scanner's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DocClear sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and PDF Document Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DocClear ships an update every 11 days, PDF Document Scanner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
DocClear versus PDF Document Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocClearPDF Document Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUAN SALMERONNikola Sretenovic

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DocClear

Subscriptions2
  • DocClear PRO7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • DocClear PRO7 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

PDF Document Scanner

One-time1
  • Pageora Unlimited$14.99

Questions

Is DocClear free?
DocClear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF Document Scanner free?
PDF Document Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DocClear or PDF Document Scanner have ads?
Neither DocClear nor PDF Document Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DocClear or PDF Document Scanner?
DocClear ships an update every 11 days, and PDF Document Scanner every 2 weeks. Most recently, DocClear was updated on October 2, 2026 and PDF Document Scanner on October 8, 2026.

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