Email vs Photo Scanner to Document
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
This email client offers a fast, secure, and organized inbox experience. It allows management of unlimited accounts, one-tap unsubscribes, and advanced features like package tracking. Prioritizes user privacy with data stored directly on the device.
- Unified inbox for unlimited accounts
- One-tap unsubscribe from senders
- Sender blocking
- Touch and Face ID protection
- Customizable swipe actions and templates
- Focused Inbox option
- Package, bill, and travel alerts
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"The way to go if you own an iPhone" -Business Insider "Unsubscribe with just a tap!" -TechCrunch "Faster than Gmail, faster than Outlook" -Walt Mossberg @The Verge "Well designed" - New York Times “All essential features of every other mail app, clear and easy to use interface, free and very transparent about how it handles your data and how it stays free. I cannot really find anything to complain.” - msaiddi (Edison Mail user) Edison Mail is the #1 independent email app on the App Store (4.5 rating) for a reason. Reduce email volume and eliminate inbox distractions. Research shows that over checking email wastes as much as 21 minutes per day. Take time back with the best app to manage and clean your inbox. Edison Mail fetches email faster than other mail apps (we have the speed tests to prove it) and simplifies searching for important information like subscriptions, travel plans, bills, packages, and more. Manage everything in one place. Edison Mail allows you to connect an unlimited number of email accounts and offers a unified inbox that keeps all of your inboxes in one view. We support all the major providers — Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, iCloud, Office/ Outlook 365, Exchange, AOL, Gmail, and IMAP* mail accounts on both iPhone and iPad. From the Pioneers of One-Tap Unsubscribe. Block senders to banish unwanted senders permanently. No targeted ads or invasive tracking pixels are allowed into your inbox. Protect your email with Touch and Face ID. Secure your inbox even further from the dangers of email phishing scams with Edison Mail+. Mail, the way it should be. Yours. Customize Edison Mail to fit your inbox needs. Change swipe actions, create custom templates, change the color settings, enable or disable Focused Inbox, and more. Life just got easier. Download Edison Mail today. It just works. – *Support for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 and above. **Please note select assistant features (i.e. bill and receipts, entertainment, travel, and package alerts) are currently limited to US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India only. Privacy By Design is Our Promise to Our Users All emails are fetched from your phone and stored on your device directly. We access new email subject headers (deleted thereafter), required to send notifications of an email arrival. Only commercial emails (example: receipts, Travel, Package Delivery) are stored to deliver Edison Mail Assistant features built into the Email app and Edison Trends. Personal information like your name or email address is NEVER shared. If you’d prefer to opt-out of participating in our anonymized research, you can do so in the settings menu. Edison Mail+ An auto-renewable premium subscription that offers more advanced email experience, particularly in the areas of contact management and security, for 14.99 USD / Month or 99.99 USD / Year. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period.
Photo Scanner to Document
Transform your device's camera into a powerful document scanner. Easily create PDFs, add signatures, highlight, and annotate your scans. Share documents instantly via various platforms with searchable text.
- Scan documents with camera
- Create searchable PDFs
- Add signatures
- Edit and annotate documents
- Share via multiple platforms
- Selectable text
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Use your camera as a scanner to create PDF documents. After scanning your document you can easily add your signature, edit, hi-light or annotate your document. Share your document by Mail, Messenger, AirDrop, iCloud, etc. Your PDF will have selectable and searchable Text. We offer a very competitive price model. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Email at none against Photo Scanner to Document's shown. Email also leads on ratings volume (79K vs 29) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Photo Scanner to Document's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Email sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Photo Scanner to Document sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Photo Scanner to Document holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Email has 79K ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Email's written reviews are positive against 100% of Photo Scanner to Document's.
Email ships an update every 2 weeks, Photo Scanner to Document every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Photo Scanner to Document | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (79K ratings) | 5.0 (29 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79K — better | 29 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edison Software Inc. | Spicy Apps |
Customer experience
Photo Scanner to Document
Bugs and requests
Reported bugs
4 issues- Emails disappearing from the Outbox
- Incorrect unread email badge counts
- Emails not loading or displaying properly
- Account settings randomly resetting
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Customizable snooze and scheduling options
- Integration with calendar and reminders
- Ability to move emails between accounts
- More granular control over folder management
Photo Scanner to Document
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial$14.991 Month
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- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial$66.991 Year
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$66.991 Year
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial$99.991 Year
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$99.991 Year
Photo Scanner to Document
- Monthly3 Days trial$2.491 Month
- 6 month3 Days trial$7.496 Months
- Yearly3 Days trial$13.991 Year
Questions
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