FlashScan vs CATTIMO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FlashScan
This app offers a privacy-focused way to scan documents, enhance images, and extract text. It automatically detects edges, corrects perspective, and offers various filters for clearer scans. Advanced features include redaction, PDF editing, and signature addition.
- Automatic edge detection and perspective correction
- Image enhancement filters
- Privacy redaction for sensitive information
- Text recognition (OCR) for text extraction
- PDF editing and watermarking
- Signature and stamp addition
- ID card scanning mode
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FlashScan is a privacy-first document scanner and PDF tool. Point your camera at any document and it automatically detects the edges, crops, corrects perspective and enhances the image. KEY FEATURES • Smart Crop — find the page edges and correct perspective, even when the photo is tilted. • Remove Handwriting — clear handwritten marks while keeping printed content and layout. • Text Removal — erase unwanted text or marks while keeping the paper background. • Exam Enhancement — remove shadows and background tint for clearer exam papers. • Receipt Enhancement — make receipt and invoice text and tables easier to read. • Remove Screen Moiré — reduce moiré patterns and glare from photos of screens. • Background Cleanup — remove paper tint and shadows for a clean scan. • Contract Cleanup — flatten and clarify contract pages for archiving and sharing. • Smart Scanning — automatic edge detection and perspective correction, with flash and auto/manual capture. • Image Enhance — filters such as Bright, Clarity, Print, Color Print, Grayscale and Black & White, applied to one page or the whole document. • Privacy Redaction — automatically detects names, phone numbers and addresses and redacts them in one tap; supports manual region drawing and per-word redaction with multiple colors. • Text Recognition (OCR) — extract text from documents, then select, copy and share it, with multi-language support. • PDF Tool — import PDFs and edit a copy (your original is never modified): insert pages, batch delete, jump to pages, convert pages to images, add signatures and watermarks, then export as a new PDF. • Signatures & Stamps — sign on screen, or extract a signature or stamp from a photo and reuse it from your library. • Watermark — protect your scans with a custom watermark. • ID Card — a dedicated mode for scanning both sides of ID cards. • Defaults — choose the default filter for scans and imports, plus auto or manual capture. • Export & Share — export as PDF, images or a ZIP archive, plus system printing. Smart Crop, Remove Handwriting, Text Removal, Exam Enhancement, Receipt Enhancement, Remove Screen Moiré, Background Cleanup and Contract Cleanup use credits per page (4 credits per page). New users receive starter credits, and inviting a friend gives credits to both of you. Only the selected pages are uploaded for processing; the third-party provider does not retain the original images. Credits for a page are refunded if processing fails. PRIVACY Everyday scanning, filters, redaction and text recognition happen on your device. The per-page enhancements listed above send only the selected pages to a third-party technology provider for processing; the original images are not retained afterward. Your documents are stored locally by default.
CATTIMO
Organize your tasks and calendar events in a charming, illustrated environment. Engage in focused work sessions with a virtual cat companion and track your progress with visual charts. Prioritizes privacy with no accounts, ads, or tracking.
- Integrates todos, Apple Reminders, and Calendar events
- Adjustable focus and break timers
- Cat companion for focus sessions
- Seven-day focus progress chart
- Live Activities for ongoing focus sessions
- No account, advertising, analytics, or tracking
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CATTIMO turns a busy day into one calm next step. Bring your todos, Apple Reminders, and Calendar events together in a warm illustrated room. Choose what matters, start a focus session, and let your cat companion keep you company while the timer runs. PLAN YOUR DAY • Create, edit, schedule, and complete todos • Add optional alerts for time-sensitive tasks • Sync selected tasks with Apple Reminders • See Calendar events and Reminders in one daily list FOCUS WITH A COMPANION • Adjustable focus and break timers • Connect a focus session to a specific task • Pause, resume, reset, or move to the next phase • Keep an accurate timer when the app moves to the background SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Seven-day focus chart • Recent sessions and focused minutes • Focus streaks that reward a steady rhythm • Live Activities that keep a running focus session close at hand PRIVATE BY DESIGN CATTIMO has no account, advertising, analytics, or tracking. Your todos, focus history, Calendar events, and Reminders stay on your device and are never sent to a developer-controlled server. Permissions are optional and requested only when needed. Calendar and Reminders access combines your plans on-device. Photo access is add-only and used only when you explicitly save an image. Privacy Policy: https://runfekim.github.io/flytracker-legal/cattimo/ Support: https://runfekim.github.io/flytracker-legal/cattimo/support.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FlashScan at 100% against CATTIMO's 0%. FlashScan also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). CATTIMO's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. FlashScan sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. CATTIMO asks for nothing beyond the download.
FlashScan ships an update every 3 days, CATTIMO weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlashScan | CATTIMO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 祖恒 廖 | JiYeon Noh |
Customer experience
FlashScan
CATTIMO
In-app purchases
FlashScan
- 120 credits$1.99
- 180 credits$2.99
- 500 credits$4.99
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- 1100 credits$9.99
- 2000 credits$14.99
CATTIMO
No in-app purchases









