Comparison

Photo Scan Plus vs SafeViewer

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

Head to head
About

Photo Scan Plus

Easily digitize your old photos, slides, and negatives with advanced AI. This app automatically enhances and organizes your memories, allowing you to add details, audio, and even colorize black-and-white images. Preserve and share your family history across generations.

Highlights
  • Scan multiple photos at once
  • Digitize slides and negatives
  • AI-powered auto-enhancement
  • Colorize B&W photos
  • Add audio recordings to scans
  • Create photo collages
  • Share via web link
Features
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Preserve the moments that matter most by turning printed photos, slides, negatives, and treasured keepsakes into a digital library your family can revisit and share for generations. Using advanced AI technology, Photomyne brings old photos into the digital age, making it quick and simple to scan, restore, enhance, and organize your family’s memories. Photo Scan Plus is the paid one-time purchase version of Photomyne. It includes the complete experience on your device: unlimited scanning, editing, saving, sharing, and organization on your iPhone or iPad. Add a Photomyne Membership anytime for secure cloud backup, web access, and syncing across your devices. In addition to Photo Scan Plus, we also offer *Photo Scan by Photomyne*. It's free to download and is first to include our newest features, improvements, and innovations. Choose the app that you feel fits you best. SCAN FASTER - PHOTOMYNE DOES THE REST • Scan multiple printed photos in a single shot • Digitize entire photo albums in minutes • Scan photos, slides, negatives, scrapbook pages, kids' artwork, documents, and more • Automatic edge detection, cropping, rotation, and color correction • Capture scans with a tap or Voice Control ORGANIZE YOUR MEMORIES • Create beautiful digital albums • Add names, dates, locations, and stories • Add audio recording • Scan the back of your photos and keep it attached • Easily search for photos and rediscover your memories RESTORE & BRING MEMORIES BACK TO LIFE Preserve your original scan while creating beautifully enhanced versions using Photomyne's editing tools. For more advanced restorations, optional AI-powered tools are available. • Sharpen blurry faces in photos • Colorize black & white photos • Auto restore faded colors • Manually edit with color filters • Remove scratches, tears, glare, shadows, and reflections using optional AI restoration tools (available with AI credits) AI-POWERED MAGIC In addition to its core features, Photomyne hosts handpicked external AI tools from trusted platforms to further restore and enhance your memories. These *optional* features include powerful AI enhancements like photo damage repair, subtle motion animations, and more. These advanced AI features use external AI technology and are available separately using AI credits, so you can enjoy even more photo-enhancing magic, all in one place. BACK UP & SHARE WITH PHOTOMYNE MEMBERSHIP Access your memories anytime, anywhere with a Photomyne Membership • Automatically back up your photos to the secure Photomyne Cloud • Access your memories from all your devices and on the web • Keep your entire library synced across your devices • Save photos to your device or computer in high resolution and print quality • Share individual photos, albums, or entire collections with family and friends using simple web links OPTIONAL IN-APP UPGRADE A Photomyne Membership includes: • Automatic cloud backup to the secure Photomyne Cloud • Access to your memories from all your devices and on the web • Synced library across all your devices Memberships are available as monthly, yearly, and one-time plans. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings.

About

SafeViewer

Features
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- The children/users can only see the photos and videos that you decide and they can´t mess up your photo library!  - They can see photos and videos on your iPhone/iPad without being able to delete and mess up the library or destroy any apps! The guardian controls everything! As a guardian, you start the app the first time and choose which albums the user should be allowed to see, e.g. all, or the albums the person should be allowed to see. The child/user will then see all the albums that you have selected for them and they can see both photos and videos from these albums, e.g. 'Road trip to Sweden 2024', 'Per's 6th birthday' etc.  They can zoom the pictures ad swipe to the previous/next, BUT ... destroying something is completely impossible! As a parent, you can now lock the iPhone/iPad to only SafeViewer and then the child/user cannot open any other apps! As I told you, it is impossible to destroy anything, neither in the Photo Albums nor in other apps! Lock your iPhone/iPad to SafeViewer! An explanation of how the parent can lock the iPhone/iPad to only one app (SafeViewer) is explained in the Guardian menu. Let the children enjoy your photos and videos!

Screenshots

Photo Scan Plus4 screens
SafeViewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SafeViewer at none against Photo Scan Plus's 10. SafeViewer also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). Photo Scan Plus's advantage is chart position (#28 vs unranked). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Photo Scan Plus costs $1.99 and SafeViewer $1.99 up front. Photo Scan Plus sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SafeViewer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Scan Plus ships an update every 3 months, SafeViewer every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Photo Scan Plus versus SafeViewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Scan PlusSafeViewer
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating4.8 (22K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#28 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size226 MB3 MB
Age rating17++4
DeveloperPhotomyne LTDVigleik Steinar Voll

Bugs and requests

Photo Scan Plus

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Difficulty canceling subscriptions
  • Inconsistent date/time tagging of scanned photos
  • Occasional loss of photo albums

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to rearrange photos within albums
  • Option to save photos directly to device storage
  • Improved batch editing and processing
  • Higher resolution scanning options
  • Better integration with other photo apps and cloud services

SafeViewer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Photo Scan Plus

Subscriptions8
  • Photomyne account$1.991 Month
  • Photomyne account$9.991 Month
  • Photomyne account3 Days trial$17.991 Year
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  • Photomyne account7 Days trial$17.996 Months
  • Photomyne account$19.996 Months
  • Photomyne membership$19.991 Month
  • Photomyne account3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Photomyne membership3 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • Photomyne membership$29.99
  • Photomyne account$47.99
None

SafeViewer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Photo Scan Plus free?
Photo Scan Plus costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is SafeViewer free?
SafeViewer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Photo Scan Plus or SafeViewer have ads?
Neither Photo Scan Plus nor SafeViewer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Scan Plus or SafeViewer?
Photo Scan Plus ships an update every 3 months, and SafeViewer every 5 days. Most recently, Photo Scan Plus was updated on November 5, 2026 and SafeViewer on October 30, 2026.

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