iScanner alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] iScanner 1/5 · US Don’t use this: You need to pay to be able to use it and it’s impossible to cancel your subscription.
2. [R3] iScanner 3/5 · US Is it really worth the $12/week?: Don’t get me wrong - this app is leagues better for photoscanning than any other app I’ve tried. The colors are vibrant, and the images are nice and aligned. My only gripes are that it doesn’t tell you about the price until you try to share your scan, and that the price is twelve dollars per week (after the one week free trial). It can only reasonably be said to b
3. [R7] iScanner 1/5 · US UScamer: They think we are stupid, idiotic, weekly SUBscription; leave it
4. [R14] iScanner 2/5 · US Not free to save a pdf scan: It's free to download the app, free to scan a document, but you can't do anything with the document once you scan it, can't even save it. So, not a free option to obtain a usable a PDF scan document.
5. [R36] iScanner 1/5 · GB Makes the cancel button for the pro trial absurdly hard to find: Clearly just trying to trick people into paying for another subscription, the lack of integrity from apple is to be expected but still very poor.
6. [R38] iScanner 1/5 · GB SCAMMERS!: Paid for one thing for just over £1 and now they have charged me twice for a subscription adding up to over £80!!!
7. [R42] iScanner 1/5 · GB Terrible app!: Will not allow me to cancel my subscription! Keeps throwing out a message no internet connection though I have connection 😡
8. [R22] iScanner 1/5 · US Garbage: Won’t allow me to email pdf files to myself
9. [R24] iScanner 1/5 · US Money trashing: I pay and I can’t open anything
10. [R26] iScanner 1/5 · US Not sending my emails: Normally I would rate this a 5, because I have loved it. Until the last few days. I'm frustrated because I've tried to send some scanned docs to my other email & it's not working. I've tried this 6-7 times on different days hoping it was a glitch. It says it was sent, but never arrives. Please Help!
11. [R20] iScanner 1/5 · US ads suck: Dude this sucks. The ads are so intrusive and have fake buttons so you click on them. The scanning is whatever and it’s so many steps to just send myself an email and multiple scans under one batch is under a paywall. You’re a glorified camera app. Get over yourself (I’m mostly salty about ads. They are truly the worst)
12. [R32] iScanner 1/5 · GB A: Not easy to use. Not easy to send scanned documents it’s very complicated.
13. [R4] iScanner 1/5 · US Horrible: Don’t use. Since the new update it’s extremely slow and not worth the effort.
14. [R10] iScanner 1/5 · US Unhappy: I would like a refund because it is very difficult to turn text messages into a document, as that’s what I wanted to do. You have to access every text, and take a screenshot. I really wish there would have been a free trial.
15. [R12] iScanner 1/5 · US Convert to text: When I tried to convert my hand writing to text it didn’t do it the way it was written. Instead it reorganized the words, and erased a lot of the hand writing.
16. [R40] iScanner 1/5 · GB Not Fit For Purpose: I wanted to love this and support a small company. I spent 90 minutes scanning a 50 page document. Then I had to manually crop a third of the pages. Then I saved it to PDF and as a Word document. The Word file was full of glitches and typos, again AI could not fix them. The PDF was not a fillable form! I’ve deleted the app and have to start all over with the mega-corp after
17. [R51] CamScanner 1/5 · US Scamcanner: These jerks renewed my annual subscription without letting me know in advance that I would not receive all or most of the benefits included in the subscription last year when I signed up for it. Though the service in general is helpful, I cannot at all recommend the subscription because the developers are obviously not trustworthy.
18. [R53] CamScanner 1/5 · US Sketchy Upgrade Stealing Information: There’s been a new upgrade and all the files that I’ve had scanned in the past which were important documents suddenly have disappeared. I’m super frustrated and will escalate this case because this is completely unethical.
19. [R54] CamScanner 5/5 · US Great scanner tool: Wow saw this on Facebook and it works so well. Just install it and scanned my papers in less than a minute. Works great love it and is simple to use
20. [R58] CamScanner 5/5 · US Great convenience: I have been working in real estate sales for many many years. This tool has been instrumental and keeping all of my files organized. I highly recommend.
21. [R66] Adobe Scan 5/5 · US Accountant: Very convenient for photo scanning, converting and saving documents at the same time. Do I recommend this app? YES
22. [R67] Adobe Scan 3/5 · US They could make this simpler: I like this app when I figure it out but it always takes too long to do so. Make the apps more accessible in one place please
23. [R68] Adobe Scan 2/5 · US Useful, but feels intentionally difficult: Was looking to create a quick pdf, which the app did well. Getting that PDF was another story. Went to airdrop it to a computer to email, but instead of giving me the PDF it transmitted a link, which did not have download enabled. Feels like this could be easy, but Adobe wants to push you towards paid features instead of offering basic usability.
24. [R69] Adobe Scan 5/5 · US Good Stuff: Excellent program. Have used for years for all manner of things, including generating tax docs. And they seem to keep improving it. Very useful tool
25. [R79] Scanner App 2/5 · US No longer able to: I’m no longer able to import screenshots for some reason
26. [R80] Scanner App 5/5 · US Great tool: I have been using Genius scan for years and this is best and handy tool to scan documents, school assignments, receipts and other documents and send it any medium. Five starts
27. [R81] Scanner App 3/5 · US Worked great for a long time but no longer: This app was amazing and always reliable for a long time. Unfortunately, it no longer sends documents. I’ve tried sending documents to my email multiple times over the last two months and nothing. It acts like it sends but the documents never arrive. I may try uninstalling and reinstalling, to see if that fixes it. But it is very unfortunate that it has
28. [R82] Scanner App 1/5 · US I cannot recommend: I have used Genius Scan for about eight or nine years. I loved it. At the end of last year I lost access of my account and could never access my documents again. I was told to reset my password which I have done at least 20 times. That is the only support I’ve received and that is not OK. I just renewed my subscription March 2026 and still have not been able to access my accou
29. [R93] Scanner Pro・Scan PDF Documents 1/5 · US “update” took away the ability to preselect doc size: The app worked fine until the developer decided to force auto select page size on all scans. Silly “update” causes me to have to adjust size of every single page manually because their stupid AI thought the page is legal size while it’s actually A5. I’ll delete the app and download something else that uses common sense.
30. [R94] Scanner Pro・Scan PDF Documents 5/5 · US Nice scanner, No ads.: The add that the other apps automatically place on any document you scan unless you pay is not nice, I like how it has no ads on the document when I share it.
31. [R95] Scanner Pro・Scan PDF Documents 3/5 · US Keeps crashing: I’ve been using this app for years. It’s been very reliable so far, but it keeps crashing since the latest upgrade. Very frustrating.
32. [R96] Scanner Pro・Scan PDF Documents 1/5 · US Subscription and AI: Stop pushing them on my face.
33. [R108] Scanner 5/5 · US Clear and easy scan: This little handy dandy scanner on my phone sure makes my life a lot easier it scans really simply and attach all documents together as a group making it easier to forward to myself and save on my computer when I don’t have my Scanner handy to be honest it’s even better than my Scanner because I don’t have to get up and go and literally do it at my desk
34. [R109] Scanner 3/5 · US Ads appear compromised: Lately I’ve been getting ads of what is called scareware telling me I have viruses on my phone or my accounts are locked and asking me to download. I’ve had a tech perform a security scan and my phone is clean so I’ve course I’m not intending on clicking on the compromised ads. I’ll be deleting and using another application for my pdf needs
35. [R110] Scanner 1/5 · US Hidden charges: I paid for 9.99 a month but somehow I ended up paying around 50 dollars a month and I don’t even use this app! They were taking money from me for soo long and I didn’t know it
36. [R111] Scanner 5/5 · US Scanner - Scan PDF: This App is very user friendly.
37. [R28] iScanner 1/5 · US A scam: I paid $24.95 for a lifetime subscription. I don’t want to pay more for the pro version since I only scan a few documents per month, mostly for the insurances I have. It only allowed me to send 5 documents! So now I am supposed to pay more just to send the documents? What good is scanning them if I can’t use them to send ?
38. [R13] iScanner 5/5 · US Great App: Works like a charm! Great quality scans. Very easy to use and very versatile!
39. [R21] iScanner 5/5 · US Awesome App: It’s very simple to use and produce great documents
40. [R27] iScanner 5/5 · US Best mobile scanner: It’s outright the best quality scanner I’ve used. I paid for other mobile scanners before this but IScanner beats them all by far.