“Deleted all my files I had saved for years and reneged on forever pro — I have had this app for years, I opened it up today and found all my scanned files gone. It also shows a ridiculous amount of ads which I had made a one time payment…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 51 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★222,658 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
173 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Stacks of receipts piling up? Contracts you need signed today, not next week? Handwritten notes you can never find again? Scanner turns your phone into a professional-grade scanner, converting any paper document into a searchable, shareable, secure digital file in seconds.
Trusted by 30M+ users, Scanner combines high-precision image processing with a top-tier OCR engine to handle contracts, invoices, IDs, receipts, passports, whiteboards, and multi-page reports, all from your camera.
Scanner app will maximize your document management efficiency: a mobile scanner for your smartphone, to change paper into PDF, while saving both time and storage.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2.12.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.12.5, updated 2026-09-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (11.8% of 51 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“More like Scammer app — I had been using this scanner app happily for a couple of years now. I’m a college student and I need to be able to scan handwritten work to submit as a pdf. Three months ago, I would have rated this app 5/5 stars…”
“Watermark / Ads — Free version has frequent pop-up advertisements and each scan has a watermark.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.12.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown7
Lowest$4.99
Highest$19.99
Premium$9.99
Premium$12.99
Premium$14.99
Premium$6.99
Premium$4.99
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Scanner Pro$4.99
Premium$19.99