Comparison

Keedogo Plus vs Claro ScanPen

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

Head to head
About

Keedogo Plus

This iPad keyboard simplifies typing for young learners with essential keys, lowercase labels, and color-coded vowels. It offers customizable word prediction and layout options to aid early literacy and build typing confidence.

Highlights
  • Simplified keyboard layout
  • Lowercase key labels
  • Color-coded vowels
  • Configurable word prediction
  • QWERTY or ABC layout
  • Multiple language support
  • Customizable themes
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Keedogo Plus is an iPad keyboard with word prediction designed for children and young students. The keyboard provides a simplified layout with just the essential keys so early writers can focus on developing their skills rather than being distracted by symbols and functions they don’t yet need. Keedogo Plus offers something for everyone: Five different themes, fully configurable word prediction, and a QWERTY or ABC layout. Featuring lowercase key labels and color-coded vowels, learning has never been easier. Keedogo Plus can be used in almost any app as an alternative to the standard iOS keyboard. Keedogo Plus is currently available in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech and Polish. Essentially simple - Focus on learning through a simplified keyboard layout - Support early literacy development with lowercase key labels - Do not get distracted by auto-correction or spell check Optimize for early learners - Select ABC or QWERTY layout - Benefit from lowercase key labels and color-coded vowels - Choose your preferred font, including dyslexic and school-friendly fonts Speed up typing and build confidence - Reduce typing efforts with self-learning word prediction - Use the cursor keys to navigate through text quickly - Turn Auto-Capitalization and Auto-Spacing ON or OFF Personalize word prediction - Choose between word-completion, next-word prediction and multi-word prediction - Configure the number of suggestions and suggestion order - Learn all words, correctly spelled words, or turn learning off - Adjust the size of the prediction bar to your needs User comfort - Use Keedogo Plus in almost any app on iPad - Select one of the 11 available languages, including regional keyboard layouts - Choose from 5 different themes

About

Claro ScanPen

This app allows you to take a photo of printed text and have it read aloud to you instantly. It uses OCR technology to convert images to text and supports multiple languages. It's ideal for students, professionals, and anyone needing auditory access to printed materials, even without an internet connection.

Highlights
  • Photo capture of printed text
  • Selectable text for audio playback
  • Instant human-quality voice output
  • Offline functionality
  • Multi-language support
  • OCR technology
  • Copy and share text
Features
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Need to listen to printed text spoken aloud - at school, in a test or exam, at work or at home? Use Claro ScanPen to photo your printed text document, letter, test paper - then select the text with your finger (or stylus), and hear it spoken straight back to you. Instantly! No internet connection required. Claro ScanPen advances reading aloud support. It gives access to printed text materials and documents for all, in a wide range of languages. Using your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, simply: • Take a photo of the text or select a photo of the text document from your camera roll. • Highlight with your finger or stylus which section of text you want to hear spoken to you. • Listen as Claro ScanPen instantly reads the text back to you using a human quality voice in a language of your choice. With your finger (or stylus) you can highlight all of the text, word by word or line by line. Tap anywhere to stop the speech. Claro ScanPen can also be used with the built in iOS VoiceOver accessibility feature, allowing low vision and blind users to access text. Claro ScanPen has no access to the internet or any reference material, so is perfect to use as a computer reader under exam and test conditions, helping students who cannot read text very well (e.g. students with dyslexia) to listen to the exam test paper questions and information. It can also be used for quickly converting class handout materials, printed presentations, instructions, books - in fact anything containing printed texts. Great for independent access and learning. Claro ScanPen uses the latest premium Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to convert your picture into text and uses iOS system voices to read the text back to you. The OCR in Claro ScanPen fully supports the recognition of text in the following languages: • English • Danish • Dutch • French • German • Italian • Norwegian • Portuguese • Spanish • Swedish Simply select the voice that matches the language of your text to hear it read back correctly. Higher-quality Nuance Expressive and Acapela voices are available to purchase in-app. Claro ScanPen is a great addition to the popular Claro Reading and Writing support apps ClaroSpeak and ClaroPDF. Claro ScanPen does not require internet access to function. Explore using the Apple iOS Guided Access feature to lock the iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone into a single app, for more secure and controlled usage. Tap iOS Settings > General > Accessibility > Guided Access to set up Guided Access. Selected text can be copied to the clipboard by enabling the advanced setting in iOS Settings. A share button can be enabled in advanced settings in iOS Settings. This lets you export your image to other apps, email and other destinations. Now supports drag and drop of the scanned text, to apps that support text, such as Notes. Requires iOS 11 and an iPad that supports multi-tasking. *** Minimum camera spec: 2MP *** If you require any product support please email us at support@clarosoftware.com. We cannot respond to any support requests made via the App Store review channel, so please email us first.

Screenshots

Claro ScanPen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Keedogo Plus at 73% against Claro ScanPen's 24%. Keedogo Plus also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and price ($2.99 vs $9.99). Claro ScanPen's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (147 vs 4). On ads 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

Keedogo Plus costs $2.99 and Claro ScanPen $9.99 up front. Claro ScanPen sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Keedogo Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Keedogo Plus holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Claro ScanPen has 147 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Keedogo Plus's written reviews are positive against 24% of Claro ScanPen's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Keedogo Plus ships an update every 12 months, Claro ScanPen every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Keedogo Plus versus Claro ScanPen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeedogo PlusClaro ScanPen
Price$2.99 — better$9.99
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better4.2 (147 ratings)
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews — better23.5% of reviews
Number of ratings4147 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.7.213.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAssistiveWareClaro Software Limited

Customer experience

Keedogo Plus

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%

Claro ScanPen

All ratings147 ratings
Positive79.6%
Neutral4.1%
Negative16.3%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive23.5%
Neutral17.6%
Negative58.8%

In-app purchases

None

Keedogo Plus

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

Claro ScanPen

One-time11
  • Allison$1.99
  • Ava$1.99
  • Samantha$1.99
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  • Tom$1.99
  • Susan$1.99
  • Heather$1.99
  • Ryan$1.99
  • Micah$1.99
  • Rod$1.99
  • Tyler$1.99
  • Will$1.99

Questions

Is Keedogo Plus free?
Keedogo Plus costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Claro ScanPen free?
Claro ScanPen costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Keedogo Plus or Claro ScanPen?
Keedogo Plus is rated higher. Keedogo Plus averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Claro ScanPen averages 4.2 from 147 ratings.
Do Keedogo Plus or Claro ScanPen have ads?
Neither Keedogo Plus nor Claro ScanPen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Keedogo Plus or Claro ScanPen?
Keedogo Plus ships an update every 12 months, and Claro ScanPen every 2 months. Most recently, Keedogo Plus was updated on August 18, 2026 and Claro ScanPen on September 22, 2026.

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