Comparison

Simply Scan documents vs One Balance

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

One Balance

Features
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Users can create accounts through One Balanchuan, which supports account logout and deletion (logging out of an account only means logging out, deleting an account will clear the information of the account locally and in the cloud). The main function of One Balanchuan is to connect the device Bluetooth, control the pointer switch, pointer color, etc. of the device, and the APP will display some device information, such as device color, device time, device battery level, etc One Balance controls the operation video link of specified devices:http://snjzxmozw.sabkt.gdipper.com/video/demonstrate.mp4

Screenshots

Simply Scan documents3 screens
One Balance1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: One Balance at none against Simply Scan documents's 1. One Balance also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simply Scan documents sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. One Balance asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simply Scan documents ships an update every 5 months, One Balance every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Simply Scan documents versus One Balance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimply Scan documentsOne Balance
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB69 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJames Hudsonwallle

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simply Scan documents

One-time1
  • "256 Shades" Slider Add-on$0.99
None

One Balance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simply Scan documents free?
Simply Scan documents is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is One Balance free?
One Balance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simply Scan documents or One Balance have ads?
Simply Scan documents shows ads; One Balance does not.
Which is updated more often, Simply Scan documents or One Balance?
Simply Scan documents ships an update every 5 months, and One Balance every 4 weeks. Most recently, Simply Scan documents was updated on September 23, 2026 and One Balance on October 5, 2026.

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