Scanner Prime! vs BastionChat
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/
BastionChat
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Private AI that runs entirely on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Chat with your documents, get instant summaries and ask out loud, with no internet, no account and no data collected. ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS Import a contract, a manual, a report or a scanned PDF. Ask in your own words and get a clear answer, with the source one tap away, so you can check it instead of trusting it. Small documents are read in full; large libraries are searched. INSTANT SUMMARIES Turn a long file into the key points: parties, dates, amounts, conditions. JUST ASK OUT LOUD Voice mode with on-device speech recognition. Nothing is uploaded. UNDERSTANDS IMAGES Ask about photos and screenshots with vision models. WORKS OFFLINE On a plane, at sea, underground: the AI model lives on your device, so it keeps working. In airplane mode, web tools are simply not offered. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. Your documents and conversations never leave the device. Apple's privacy label: Data Not Collected. Lock the app with Face ID using iOS's built-in app protection. YOUR CHOICE OF MODEL A curated catalog of open models (Qwen, Gemma, Phi, LFM and more) sized for your device: fast ones on iPhone, larger ones on iPad and Mac. Or import any GGUF model from Hugging Face. FOR POWER USERS Adjustable thinking (Off, Short, Full), calculator, optional web search, MCP tools for agent workflows. ONE PURCHASE No subscription, no usage limits, Family Sharing. Download a model once, then everything runs locally. Requires iOS 18 or later. Larger models need more memory; the app recommends what fits your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BastionChat at none against Scanner Prime!'s 2. Scanner Prime!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On 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
Scanner Prime! costs $2.99 and BastionChat $4.99 up front. Scanner Prime! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. BastionChat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scanner Prime! ships an update every 2 weeks, BastionChat every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scanner Prime! | BastionChat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 271 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kairoos Solutions SL | Frederic Ayala Heinrich |
In-app purchases
Scanner Prime!
- Premium - Unlock All Features3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Scanner App Lifetime Upgrade$3.99
BastionChat
No in-app purchases









