A Tiny Scanner alternative with free multi-page scans

Why people look for a Tiny Scanner alternative

Tiny Scanner by TinyWork Apps has a large following and a high App Store rating, and most recent reviews are happy ones. The complaints that do come up are fairly specific: users report that the free version now lets you scan about one page before asking you to upgrade, that multi-page scanning moved behind the paywall, and that a $4.99 weekly charge kept renewing after a single use. Some people who bought the old one-time Plus upgrade say they were later asked to subscribe.

If a scanner app has ever let you photograph four pages of a tax form and then asked for money before you could save the fourth, you know the feeling. Scanfone takes the opposite approach: scanning and saving are free, with no page count.

Tiny Scanner vs Scanfone at a glance

Competitor details are from the US App Store and Google Play listings and recent reviews, at the time of writing (November 2026). Where something was not confirmed in our research, we say so rather than guess.

What you get free in Scanfone

Every item below works without paying, without an account and without ads:

• Unlimited document scanning to PDF, with as many pages per PDF as you like.
• Automatic edge detection and perspective fix from Apple's document camera.
• Filters, rotate, reorder and delete pages; import photos and existing PDFs.
• Text recognition (OCR) on the phone, so PDFs are searchable and text can be copied.
• Scan modes for ID cards, passports and QR codes.
• Sign, add text, page numbers, footer text and watermarks; redact areas.
• Merge, split and compress PDFs; convert JPG to PDF, PDF to JPG and PDF to text.
• Folders, search across all documents and a Safe folder locked with PIN and Face ID.

Where Tiny Scanner goes further

Tiny Scanner lists features Scanfone does not offer, such as AI file summaries and contact extraction, extra camera modes for measuring, counting objects and solving maths, PDF to Excel, and a web file manager with cloud sync across phone, tablet and browser. If you want all of that in one app, it covers a wider range.

Scanfone deliberately does less, and gives most of it away. Pro adds sync between phones, 1 TB backup, PDFs without the footer line, and export to Word and PowerPoint.

The one thing free Scanfone adds to your PDF

Free PDFs get a single small line under each page that reads "Scanned free with Scanfone". It never sits on top of your content, and it is not a watermark across the page. If you would rather send clean PDFs, Pro removes it. That is the whole trade.

Price, without the small print

Scanfone Pro costs $2.99 for the first year, then $19.99 per year through the App Store. That is the only plan. No weekly price, no trial that quietly converts, and cancelling is one tap. There is no email and password account either: your App Store purchase is the account and other phones join with a one-time code. See pricing and our page on a scanner without a subscription if you would rather never pay at all.

How to move from Tiny Scanner to Scanfone

1. Share your existing scans from Tiny Scanner as PDFs and save them to Files.
2. Install Scanfone; it opens straight to the scanner, no sign-up.
3. Import the PDFs and let text recognition make them searchable.
4. Organise them in folders and move private ones into the Safe.
5. Check your App Store subscriptions and cancel any plan you no longer use.

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Scanner Pro, Tiny Scanner, TurboScan, Adobe Scan, CamScanner, Genius Scan, iScanner and Apple Notes are trademarks of their respective owners. Scanfone is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them.