Scanner Prime! vs Local AI Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scanner Prime!
Transform your mobile device into a powerful scanner. Easily capture documents, receipts, and photos, convert them to PDF, and edit them with annotation tools. Organize your files with a robust manager and sync across devices.
- Scan documents and photos from camera
- Convert to PDF and edit/annotate
- Automatic edge detection and cropping
- Organize files in notebooks and folders
- Sync across devices via iCloud
- Supports over 40 file formats
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Scan quick and easily real-world objects such as documents, notes, receipts, books, magazines, id cards, business cards, whiteboards and even your photos, etc., and add them to your digital PDF notebooks. Scanner transforms your iPad and iPhone into a potent mobile scanner with these main features: · Scan directly from your iPad or iPhone's camera. Utilize the flash either automatically or manually. · It's a PDF converter as well, convert from MS Office, iWork, Text and other documents to PDF. Edit and anotate them! · Automatically detects the edges of documents or manually adjust and crop them. · Scan in color or black and white. · Rearrange the pages of your document and crop them before saving the project. · Scanner provides a tactile, ink-on-paper experience due to the intuitive, quick, and pixel-perfect precise control of your Apple Pencil. It also offers handy features such as tilt and pressure sensitivity, and support for palm rejection. · Use enhanced seven Ink tools to annotate, write, and sketch on your scans including Marker, Pen, Pencil, Monoline, FountainPen, Watercolor, and Crayon. · Veritable file manager to organize your scans in notebooks, folders, and subfolders. Duplicate, delete to trash, or rename your documents with ease. Supports more than 40 file formats. (MS Office, iWork, Zip, JPEG, PNG, RTF, etc!) · Personalize the cover of your notebooks or folders. · Send, sync and share PDF documents from/to iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc. · Set up a security app passcode to protect your documents. · iCloud syncs your scans across all devices. Scan a document on your iPhone or iPad and it will automatically update to iCloud Drive. All of your devices, including your computer, will synchronise. · Includes a robust PDF editor with edition, search and annotation tools. · Supported document and file formats manageable in Scanner: · Supported document and file formats manageable in Scanner: - Text, Books and Documents: Pages (.pages), Numbers (.numbers), Keynote (.key), HTML (.html), Markdown files (.md), Tex Document (.tex), TrueType Collection Font (.ttc), TrueType Font (.ttf), XLS (Excel files) (.xls), PPT (PowerPoint files) (.ppt), PPTX (PowerPoint files) (.pptx), XLSX (Excel files) (.xlsx), Zip Archive (.zip), PDF Document (.pdf), RTFD Document (.rtfd), Plain Text Document (.txt), Microsoft Word document (.doc, .docx), RTF Document (.rtf) - Video: MP4 (.mp4), iTunes video (.m4v), H.264 Images, 3GPP (.3gp), 3GPP2 (.3g2), QuickTime movie (.mov) - Audio: MP3 (.mp3), AC-3 audio, AIFC audio (.aifc), AIFF audio (.aiff), AMR Audio (.amr), Sun/NeXT audio (.au), Enhanced AC-3, Apple m4a (.m4a), Core Audio, WAVE audio (.wav) - Images: HEIC (.heic), Adobe DNG (.dng), HEIF (.heif), Image File (includes .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpeg-2000), SVG Document (.svg) · And much more! Get it now for FREE and try it for yourself! Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Local AI Studio
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Discover the cutting-edge capabilities of Local AI Studio, empowering you to harness the full potential of AI, local LLM chat, automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Stable Diffusion text to image generation directly on your iPhone or iPad. The build-in model needs 8GB RAM to run, recommend devices: iPhone 15 Pro , iPad M1 and later. Key Features: - Harness the Stable Diffusion model directly on your iPhone or iPad. - Support for local LLM (LLaMA) chat feature. - Support for Stable Diffusion checkpoint , SafeTensors model files. - Includes a Stable Diffusion model for immediate experimentation. - Includes a LLM model of Llama for exploring LLM capabilities. - Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with Whisper model: Convert spoken words and audio files into text. - You can download model files and check model license on HuggingFace website. Performance Notes: - Recommend RAM 8GB minimum, the build-in Stable Diffusion needs 8GB RAM to run (iPhone 15 Pro, iPad M1). - Image generation speed varies based on hardware, ranging from seconds to minutes. - This App can fully utilize iPhone or iPad CPU and GPU capabilities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Scanner Prime! at 4.5 against Local AI Studio's 1.0. Scanner Prime! also leads on price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Local AI Studio's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Scanner Prime! costs $2.99 and Local AI Studio $9.99 up front. Scanner Prime! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Local AI Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scanner Prime! holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scanner Prime! has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Scanner Prime! ships an update every 2 weeks, Local AI Studio every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Scanner Prime! | Local AI Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 271 MB | 3.6 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kairoos Solutions SL | 强 李 |
In-app purchases
Scanner Prime!
- Premium - Unlock All Features3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Scanner App Lifetime Upgrade$3.99
Local AI Studio
No in-app purchases









