An iScanner alternative with no weekly plan

Why people look for an iScanner alternative

iScanner offers a long list of tools: scanning, AI cleanup, OCR, signing, fax, an app lock and more. The complaints we found in recent App Store reviews are less about features and more about how you pay for them.

At the time of writing, iScanner's US App Store listing offers weekly plans (its "1 week Pro" option is $4.99) alongside yearly plans, and the listing notes that the app contains advertising. Reviewers describe being charged after they thought they were on a free trial, weekly payments that went unnoticed for months, and trouble cancelling. A 2021 developer reply described the free version as limited to 5 exports a day with ads, and users report that multi-page scanning moved behind the paywall.

If you scan a few things a week, a weekly plan is about the most expensive way to do it.

Scanfone vs iScanner at a glance

iScanner details come from its US App Store listing, developer replies and recent reviews at the time of writing. Plans and limits change, so check the listing before subscribing.

What Scanfone gives you for free

Scanfone is a free PDF scanner for iPhone with no daily cap and no ads. The parts people usually get charged for are simply included:

• Unlimited multi-page PDFs from the camera, photos or imported PDFs
• Apple's document camera for edge detection and perspective fixes
• Filters, rotate, reorder and delete pages
• Free OCR: searchable PDFs, copyable text, search across all documents
• Scan modes for documents, ID cards, passports and QR codes
• Sign, add text, watermark, page numbers, redact, merge, split and compress
• PDF to JPG, PDF to text and photos to PDF
• A Safe folder locked with a PIN and Face ID
• Share, print and save to Files whenever you like

One yearly price, cancel in one tap

Free PDFs get one small line under each page: "Scanned free with Scanfone". It never covers your content.

Scanfone Pro removes that line and adds sync between your phones, a 1 TB cloud backup on EU servers and Word and PowerPoint export. It costs $2.99 for the first year, then $19.99 a year. There are no weekly plans and no trial that quietly turns into a big charge, and you cancel in one tap. If avoiding subscriptions altogether is the goal, read about using a scanner without a subscription.

How to cancel iScanner and switch

1. Export the documents you want to keep from iScanner as PDFs and save them to Files.
2. Open iPhone Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions.
3. Choose iScanner and tap Cancel Subscription. Deleting the app alone does not stop payments.
4. Install Scanfone, import your PDFs from Files and keep scanning. No sign-up needed.

Fair is fair

iScanner has features Scanfone does not, like AI chat on documents, a math solver and fax. If you use those every day, its paid plan may make sense for you. If you mainly scan, sign, search and share PDFs, Scanfone covers that for free. Our how to scan documents on iPhone guide shows the whole flow in a minute.