Evernote Scannable vs NIRLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Evernote Scannable
Effortlessly digitize any paper document, from receipts to business cards, with your phone's camera. Automatically enhance scans for clarity and share them instantly via email, text, or save them to cloud storage.
- Automatic document capture
- Image enhancement (rotate, crop, adjust)
- Business card to contact conversion
- Share via email/text
- Export as PDF/JPG
- Seamless integration with ScanSnap scanners
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Scannable moves paper forward. Scan contracts, receipts, business cards, and any paper that comes your way. Save or share documents instantly and move on. Automatically capture high-quality scans anywhere - Scan fast: Point your camera at documents, expense receipts, or whiteboards. Scannable immediately captures them. - Save time: Scannable automatically rotates, crops, and adjusts images so your scans are clear and easy to read. - Share or save: Send documents to colleagues via email or text, or export them as PDF and JPG files to Evernote and other apps. Deal with paper professionally - Turn business cards into contacts: Pull information from business cards and save it all to your contacts list. - Go paperless: Scannable works seamlessly with the ScanSnap Evernote Edition Scanner to get multi-page documents where they need to go. - A scanner for everyone: With Scannable, your whole team can control a ScanSnap Evernote Edition Scanner from their own devices and send paper on its way. Scannable is free to download and use.
NIRLab
Instantly identify substances using near-infrared spectra. This app is part of a comprehensive data management system for field-based analysis. A compatible infrared spectrometer is necessary for data acquisition.
- Instant substance identification
- Near-infrared spectra analysis
- Field data acquisition
- Complete data management ecosystem
- Quality monitoring
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The NIRLab app instantly identifies substances on the field with their near infrared spectra. The application is part of a complete data management ecosystem covering from data acquisition to quality monitoring. A MircoNIR infrared spectrometer is required to acquire new spectra.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NIRLab at none against Evernote Scannable's 4. NIRLab also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Evernote Scannable's advantage is ratings volume (418K vs 1) and chart position (#117 vs unranked). On price, rating, 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. Evernote Scannable sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. NIRLab asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Evernote Scannable against 5.0 for NIRLab. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Evernote Scannable has 418K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Evernote Scannable ships an update every 2 months, NIRLab every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Evernote Scannable | NIRLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (418K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 418K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #117 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evernote Corporation | NIRLAB Forensics Sarl |
Customer experience
Evernote Scannable
NIRLab
Bugs and requests
Evernote Scannable
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cropping and edge detection issues
- Scans sometimes fail to save or upload
- App resets settings and tutorial on every launch
Requested features
4 requests- Allow saving scans to local storage or other cloud services
- Provide more customization options for scans
- Improve stability and reduce crashes
- Add ability to manually tag or name scans
NIRLab
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Evernote Scannable
- Weekly Plan with Free Trial7 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Weekly Plan$2.997 Days
- Yearly with Free Trial7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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- Yearly Subscription$49.991 Year
NIRLab
No in-app purchases
