Comparison

Simply Scan documents vs Quickly Scanner

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

Quickly Scanner

Features
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For quick situations. Quickly Scanner is a fast and easy document scanner for receipts, sheet music, and documents. Scan and send in seconds – no extra steps. Create clean black-and-white PDFs and send them instantly by email or share them anywhere. Features: - Fast scan and send - No typing during scanning - Scan receipts at checkout – no need to store paper - Clean black-and-white PDF output - Saves recent scans - Preset settings for fast sending - Share sheet music directly to other apps - Lightweight and fast

Screenshots

Simply Scan documents3 screens
Quickly Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quickly Scanner at none against Simply Scan documents's 1. Quickly Scanner also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). Simply Scan documents's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On price and device support 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. Quickly Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simply Scan documents ships an update every 5 months, Quickly Scanner every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Simply Scan documents versus Quickly Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimply Scan documentsQuickly Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames HudsonTERO TAPANI NIEMI

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simply Scan documents

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

Quickly Scanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simply Scan documents free?
Simply Scan documents is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quickly Scanner free?
Quickly Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simply Scan documents or Quickly Scanner have ads?
Simply Scan documents shows ads; Quickly Scanner does not.
Which is updated more often, Simply Scan documents or Quickly Scanner?
Simply Scan documents ships an update every 5 months, and Quickly Scanner every 2 months. Most recently, Simply Scan documents was updated on September 23, 2026 and Quickly Scanner on October 3, 2026.

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