I have no idea what the difference between this and CamScanner+ is.
Besides CamScanner Free, there’s CamScanner+ for $0.99, which is the same as the free app, but doesn’t include the ads or watermarks. Beyond the in-app purchases, CamScanner gets confusing because there are four versions of the app available. For $7.99/month or $79.99/year you get more cloud storage, auto uploading, batch downloading and a few other random features. You can get 200MB of free cloud storage by registering for an account with CamScanner. The free version of CamScanner is ad-supported and adds watermarks to any PDFs you save. It’s the same kind of scheme Microsoft uses with Office.įineScanner and CamScanner are even more confusing. At a glance, without digging through everything, most people won’t know which features they will need and will likely just overpay to be safe.
Arguably, none of these paid features are necessary for most of us, but it still makes for a confusing experience. That’s four versions of the app locked behind three paywalls. For $14.99, you get everything listed above plus an extra copy of the app for a friend. For $12.99, you get automatic uploads, Touch ID protection, folder support, a colour filter, smart naming and themes. For an in-app purchase of $9.99, you get optical character recognition (OCR) and search, as well the ability to sign documents digitally. Out of the box, you can scan documents and save them locally. It’s also one of the most recommended iPhone scanner apps available. It’s free, and has multiple in-app purchases. Scanbot at least makes in-app purchases very obvious, but FineScanner and CamScanner do not. Each of them is free to download, but they’re all limited unless you unlock bits and pieces of them with increasingly annoying in-app purchases. Let’s take a look at a few of the most popular and free document scanner apps, FineScanner (iOS), Scanbot (Android/iOS) and CamScanner (Android/iPhone). Perhaps because of that rarity, it’s become near-impossible to find one that just works out of the box without some weird payment scheme. Like faxing apps, document scanning apps have been necessary evils most of us only need rarely. I remember downloading a random scanner app back on my iPhone 3G when I needed to scan a document for school. All of them are confusing as hell.ĭocument scanners have been in app stores since they launched. But there are dozens, all nearly identical. It should be simple: Scan receipts, digitise notes, sync to the cloud, that’s it. Mobile document scanners are possibly the most boring apps imaginable, so it’s puzzling they’re also some of the most awful, sleazy and confusing apps you can download.
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