SwiftScan AI Document Scanner vs Scanner'
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SwiftScan AI Document Scanner
This app transforms your mobile device into a powerful scanner, capturing high-quality PDFs and JPGs with a single tap. It leverages AI for advanced features like document summarization, translation, and text extraction. Easily manage, edit, sign, and share your scanned documents via email, fax, or cloud storage.
- High-quality PDF/JPG scanning
- AI document summarization and translation
- OCR text extraction
- Send documents as fax
- Cloud storage integration
- QR code scanning
- Edit, sign, and annotate documents
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SwiftScan AI is the best mobile scanner app for documents and QR codes. Create free, high-quality PDF or JPG scans with just one tap. Use smart AI Tools to translate scans into other languages, or to summarize into brief overviews or generate longer reports. Send files via email or as a fax. Save files to iCloud Drive, Box, Dropbox, Evernote and other cloud services. SwiftScan AI packs all the power of a desktop scanner into one tiny scanner app! SwiftScan AI Features – Scan, sign, edit, save & send, summarize, translate, fax, and more! - Scan premium quality PDFs or JPGs with 200 dpi and higher - Advanced AI Tools to summarize your documents for quick comprehension, or even translate documents to another language - OCR: AI-powered OCR can extract the text of your scans to search, copy, and lookup to find things fast - Fax: send your documents as a fax right from SwiftScan - Cloud integration: save files to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive and other cloud services - Scan QR codes: URLs, Contacts, Phone Numbers - Home Screen Widget: Shortcut widget provides instant access to scan, search, or view recent documents - Lightning fast: automatic edge detection and scanning - Scan single & multi-page documents - Enhance your scans: apply color, grayscale or black & white filters with automatic optimization - Add text, comments, annotations, or draw on documents - Insert e-signature, redact text, add pages - WebDAV and FTP, sFTP and FTPs - Edit documents: Move, rotate, add or delete pages - Encryption: PDF password protection - Passcode protection with Touch/Face ID support - Beautiful themes: select your preferred look and feel - Smart file naming based on tags you select, like dates, keywords, and more - One-tap email and print workflows Scan PRIVACY SAFE SwiftScan AI values your privacy. We will never store or save your documents, or use them for any purpose. All document-related activity happens on your device, or with the cloud backup provider you choose. Scan HIGH-QUALITY SwiftScan AI uses the most advanced scanning technology. Scans start at 200 dpi, premium quality comparable to desktop scanners. Various color modes, auto-optimization and blur-reduction help you to get the most out of your scans. Scan QUICKLY SwiftScan AI is lightning fast and incredibly easy. Hold your iPhone over any document, receipt, whiteboard, notebook, or QR code to scan and save it as a PDF or JPG quickly. The edges of the document are automatically identified so that only the document itself is scanned. It captures the best possible image in the perfect moment. Scan ANYTHING SwiftScan AI works with any type of document, from paper documents to business cards, QR codes, barcodes, notes- even whiteboards or post-its. It saves the documents that are important for you and gets rid of paper clutter. --- CONTACT & SUPPORT --- Learn more: https://maplemedia.io/ Get in touch: support@swiftscanapp.com --- LEGAL --- Terms of Service: https://maplemedia.io/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://maplemedia.io/privacy/ Subscription Terms: Payment for subscriptions will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication.
Scanner'
Transform your device into a portable scanner to digitize documents, receipts, photos, and more. Automatically detect and crop borders, adjust image settings, and share your scans easily via email or social media. Organize your important items with this versatile scanning tool.
- Scan documents, receipts, photos
- Automated border detection and cropping
- Manual border adjustment
- Edit contrast, brightness, and rotation
- Save as PDF
- Share scans via email and social media
- Print scans directly
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Organize your paperwork, photos, recipes and everything important to you. Scan & Save, it's your portable scanner....Anytime, Anywhere! • Scan documents, receipts, photos, or everything important to you • Share your scans with whomever you want The scanner is able to correct perspective and automatically detect and crop the borders of your document. Don’t agree with the detected borders? Move them easily any direction you want and you will see that your document will be rotated to a perfectly straight image. In the preview you can edit the file name, contrast & brightness, rotate the page and choose any A paper size you would like to save it as. Share your scan by email, social media or any other way you desire. Print your scan directly from the preview mode, or save it in the gallery as a PDF. Smart Scan brings you all the features you need: • Automated scanning for borders • Scans as soon as it finds the document borders • You can manually adjust the borders right after scanning • Edit the document in the preview: change file name, adjust contrast & brightness, rotate, and choose from different page sizes • Saves your scan in a convenient gallery, in which you can select, share, delete and edit older files • Share your scan with just one tap! As always, we appreciate your feedback. Please email us at feedback@impalastudios.com with any suggestions or questions. If you are happy with this update, please let us know by rating and reviewing us in the App Store! Smart Scanner is the future of organizing your paperwork!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SwiftScan AI Document Scanner at 4.8 against Scanner''s 4.2. SwiftScan AI Document Scanner also leads on review sentiment (51% vs 19%) and ratings volume (19K vs 1.4K). Scanner''s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. SwiftScan AI Document Scanner sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Scanner' asks for nothing beyond the download.
SwiftScan AI Document Scanner holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SwiftScan AI Document Scanner has 19K ratings behind it against 1.4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of SwiftScan AI Document Scanner's written reviews are positive against 19% of Scanner''s.
SwiftScan AI Document Scanner ships an update every 5 weeks, Scanner' every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SwiftScan AI Document Scanner | Scanner' |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (19K ratings) — better | 4.2 (1.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.6% of reviews — better | 19.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19K — better | 1.4K |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 479 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maple Media Apps, LLC | Impala Studios |
Customer experience
SwiftScan AI Document Scanner
Scanner'
User reviews
SwiftScan AI Document Scanner
From 19K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Efficient scanning and document processing
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 🔒 Secure cloud storage integration
- 📂 Excellent file management and organization
- 💡 Valuable OCR and text recognition capabilities
Room to improve
- 🔒 Aggressive subscription model and paywall for features
- 🐛 Bugs, crashes, and loss of functionality after updates
- 💰 Expensive subscription fees compared to alternatives
- 🔁 Constant upsell prompts interrupting workflow
- 🤔 Unclear communication about feature changes
Scanner'
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and free
- 👍 Scans and auto-finds page edges
- 👍 Works well with good contrast
Room to improve
- 🐛 Issues with sending multiple scanned images
- 🔍 Unable to scan in color
- 🔍 Ads can be intrusive
- 🐛 Unreliable scanning and document saving
- 🐛 Difficulty transferring scanned documents
Bugs and requests
SwiftScan AI Document Scanner
Reported bugs
4 issues- Scans and documents disappearing or becoming inaccessible
- Subscription restoration issues and double charging
- Inconsistent behavior with cloud storage integrations
- Camera and scanning functionality becoming unreliable
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to combine multiple documents into a single file
- Improved OCR accuracy and text extraction
- Option to disable subscription upsell prompts
- Grandfathering of existing paid users' features
- Better support for older devices and iOS versions
Scanner'
Reported bugs
3 issues- Fails to recognize document borders
- Randomly emails only a subset of scanned pages
- Scanned files become unavailable after sending
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to scan and save multi-page documents as a single file
- Color scanning option
- More user-friendly interface and instructions
In-app purchases
SwiftScan AI Document Scanner
- SwiftScan VIP Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
- SwiftScan Plus Monthly$7.991 Month
- SwiftScan Plus Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- SwiftScan VIP Annual$34.991 Year
- SwiftScan Plus Annual3 Days trial2 variants$59.991 Year
- Credits to Fax from iPhone$1.99
- SwiftScan Pro 40$3.99
- SwiftScan Pro-Full Scanner App$6.99
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- SwiftScan VIP-Full Scanner App$8.99
Scanner'
No in-app purchases
Questions
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