Comparison

Simply Scan documents vs Docusy

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

Head to head
About

Simply Scan documents

Effortlessly digitize documents with your iPhone or iPad camera. This app offers a streamlined scanning experience, automatically saving high-quality images to your photo roll for easy printing, emailing, or filing. It also functions as a powerful black-and-white camera.

Highlights
  • Real-time filter for instant preview
  • High-quality scans in bad lighting
  • Rapid capture for multiple pages
  • Automatic grayscale conversion
  • Sleek, minimal user interface
  • Optional grayscale camera add-on
Features
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Instantly scan documents with your iPhone or iPad camera, ready to be printed, filed or emailed. Other apps are slow and complicated, have too many controls, make you sign up for services, or require you to edit and tweak every page. None of that here: just line up the document and click! The scans are automatically stored in your camera roll. Photography is also a popular use for this app. Simply Scan out-hipsters all the hipster photo apps if you use it to take gritty black-and-white photos. Features • super-fast realtime filter lets you see how your scans will look instantly. • captures printable pages even in bad lighting conditions. • saves high-quality scans at the maximum native camera resolution. • rapid capture: line up the next page instantly while the previous page is saving. • saves straight to its own photo album, ready for emailing, printing, or filing. • adjust whiteness level in realtime, if needed. • automatic conversion to grayscale, ready for printing. • optional "256 shades" add-on to turn Simply Scan into a high-powered black-and-white camera with full grayscale control. • sleek, minimal look - no glitter and chrome. It works like this: 1. Hold your device over the page you want to scan. 2. If needed, adjust the whiteness slider to get clear text and images. 3. Press the camera shutter button. 4. Repeat step 3 for every page. 5. Go to the "Scans" album in your photo roll to share, print, or store your scans. Note, you need to give permission for Simply Scan to access your photo library. This can be changed later in the Settings app. "Kokosnuss" scans by Dean Whitbread.

About

Docusy

Transform your device into a powerful document management tool. Scan, annotate, sign, and export professional PDFs offline. Handle everything from leases to receipts with ease.

Highlights
  • Scan documents with camera
  • Annotate and edit text with OCR
  • Draw and save multiple signatures
  • Combine multiple pages into one PDF
  • Export as PDF or image
  • Offline functionality
  • No watermarks or ads
Features
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Docusy is the iPhone scanner that edits what it reads. Tap any word in a scanned document and change it — in 17 languages. Sign, merge, search, share. Nothing leaves your device. EDIT SCANNED TEXT Scan a document and Docusy detects every word. Tap to correct, replace, or rewrite. Edits match your document's font and colour so changes look native, not pasted on. Works in every supported language, including Arabic and Persian right-to-left. READ THE DETAILS Scan a receipt, invoice, business card, or ID and Docusy pulls out the details — totals, dates, names, and numbers. Export them as CSV, or as Word and Excel documents where detected tables become real rows. Docusy tells a receipt from an invoice and sorts your library by type, so the document you need is one tap away. Add a detected date straight to your calendar. TRANSLATE ON THE PAGE Read a document in another language. Docusy translates the text into any language your device supports, right where it sits, and flips between the original and the translation with a tap. On your device, private as ever. SIGN AND SEND Draw your signature once. Place it on any PDF in seconds. Save multiple signatures for personal and business use. PROTECT WHAT MATTERS Lock Docusy with Face ID or your passcode, and export password-protected, encrypted PDFs. Your documents stay yours — stored safely on your device, by design. SCAN ANYTHING Scan paper documents with your camera, or import PDFs and photos from Files and Photos. Merge up to 6 PDFs into one in a single tap. Export as PDF, image, Word, Excel, CSV, or ZIP — print, AirDrop, email, or share with any app. BUILT INTO FILES Sign or edit any PDF straight from the iOS Files share sheet — no need to open the app first. Docusy adds "Add Signature" and "Edit as PDF" as one-tap actions wherever your documents live. SPOTLIGHT, SIRI & SHORTCUTS Find any scanned document from your home screen — Spotlight searches the text inside every scan. Open, search, or scan with Siri or a Shortcut. Build your own document automations. SEARCH EVERY DOCUMENT Find a name, a date, an address — Docusy searches the text inside every scanned PDF, instantly, offline. Pin the documents you reach for most. iPHONE, iPAD, MAC, APPLE VISION One purchase, every Apple device. A redesigned iPad and Mac layout — with a sidebar and a rethought PDF editor — makes the most of the bigger screen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No accounts. No servers. No internet required. We can't see your documents because we don't have them. NO ADS. NO WATERMARKS. Export clean PDFs. No "Made with Docusy" stamp on your scans. 17 LANGUAGES Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Full right-to-left layout for Arabic and Persian. Scan a receipt. Sign a tenancy agreement. Fix a typo in a form. Archive a contract. Docusy handles documents the way Apple apps should — on your device, in your language, respecting your privacy.

Screenshots

Simply Scan documents3 screens
Docusy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Docusy at none against Simply Scan documents's shown. Docusy also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). Simply Scan documents's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Simply Scan documents sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Docusy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. 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 — 4.0 for Simply Scan documents against 4.0 for Docusy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Simply Scan documents's written reviews are positive against 100% of Docusy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simply Scan documents ships an update every 5 months, Docusy every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Simply Scan documents versus Docusy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimply Scan documentsDocusy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames HudsonWhiteLake

Customer experience

Simply Scan documents

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Docusy

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simply Scan documents

One-time1
  • "256 Shades" Slider Add-on$0.99
3 purchases

Docusy

Subscriptions3
  • All access$0.997 Days
  • Docusy Pro – Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Docusy Pro – Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Simply Scan documents free?
Simply Scan documents is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Docusy free?
Docusy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simply Scan documents or Docusy?
Simply Scan documents and Docusy are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Simply Scan documents or Docusy have ads?
Simply Scan documents shows ads; Docusy does not.
Which is updated more often, Simply Scan documents or Docusy?
Simply Scan documents ships an update every 5 months, and Docusy every 3 weeks. Most recently, Simply Scan documents was updated on October 9, 2026 and Docusy on October 10, 2026.

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