Scanner App: Genius Scan

Name: Scanner App: Genius Scan
Rating: 4.9 (1283900 reviews)
Author: The Grizzly Labs

PDF documents & OCR

Free · In‑App Purchases

1.3M Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Business
Developer

The Grizzly Labs
Language

EN
+ 19 More
Size

91.2
MB

Genius Scan is a document scanner app in your pocket. Quickly scan your paper documents on the go and export them as multi-page PDF files. *** Apple App of the Week *** 20+ million users *** 1000s of small businesses *** Place any document in front of your device’s camera: our scanner app automatically recognizes the paper against the background, crops it, and cleans up the result. You obtain a crisp, legible scan. Batch scanning lets you scan dozens of pages in a matter of seconds. Powerful tools help you organize, share, or archive your documents. “Next time you plan to hit the road, don’t forget to download Genius Scan to make life easier for yourself and your accounting department.” - AppPicker.com “Camera apps aren’t designed for close-up text scanning, but Genius Scan is.” - The Guardian == KEY FEATURES == Smart Scanning: - Document detection & background removal - Distortion correction - Shadow removal and defect cleanup - Filters (black & white, whiteboard, photo) - Batch scanning PDF Creation & Editing: - Document merging & splitting - Multiple page PDF creation - Photos and PDF import Security & Privacy: - On-device document processing + Face ID locking + PDF password encryption Document Organization: - Document tagging - Metadata and content search + Smart document renaming (custom templates, …) + Backup and multi-device sync with Genius Cloud (separate subscription) Export: - Email + Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Expensify, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, OneNote, FTP, SugarSync, WebDAV. + Any WebDAV compatible service such as Citrix ShareFile, NextCloud, ownCloud, Synology, Yandex. + Automatic background auto-export OCR (Text Recognition): + Text extraction + Searchable PDF creation + Business card scanning & contact creation The features denoted with [+] are available as part of a premium plan. == ABOUT US == It’s in the heart of Paris, France that The Grizzly Labs develops Genius Scan. We take pride in crafting apps that help millions of users throughout the world and hold ourselves to the highest standards in terms of quality and privacy. Get in touch with us @thegrizzlylabs if you have any questions. == PRICING & LEGAL == Genius Scan is free to use for as long as you want. Should you choose to, you can subscribe to the Genius Scan Plus plan for more features. You can subscribe to Genius Cloud for backup & synchronization. In that case, Genius Scan’s store displays the duration and price of each subscription, updated at the time of purchase. Payment will be charged to iTunes account when the order is confirmed. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off no later than 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions, disable auto-renewal in the iTunes account settings. Download the best free mobile scanner and scan your documents in a snap. https://www.thegrizzlylabs.com/genius-scan/cloud/terms

Ratings & Reviews

4.9

out of 5

1.3M Ratings

Absolutely essential to my life - unparalleled in quality.
07/03/2024

aprilalison
I don’t believe I’ve ever written a review on an app. I’m taking the time to write this because this app is THAT outstanding. It’s become essential to my daily life. I regularly need to scan documents in and then access them via my computer. I considered buying a more expensive scanner, but with this app, there is simply no need. If I hold my camera at the wrong angle, Genius Scan fixes it for me. It compensates for angles and bumps and misalignments and churns out an absolutely professional looking scan in seconds. It’s so accurate, it genuinely looks like it was a saved document, never having been printed and scanned. If, for some reason, my document is wonky and scans a weird edge, Genius scan lets me fix it. Over and above its perfect scans, it allows me to export…down to the very subfolder… of my Google Drive, my Microsoft OneDrive and even my Apple Files. I can email it to myself or someone else. It’s just seamless. I’m continually more and more impressed with this app and it’s saved me so much time and money, I cannot be more thankful for this app. Well done, devs, well done. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely essential to my life - unparalleled in quality.
07/03/2024

aprilalison

I don’t believe I’ve ever written a review on an app. I’m taking the time to write this because this app is THAT outstanding. It’s become essential to my daily life. I regularly need to scan documents in and then access them via my computer. I considered buying a more expensive scanner, but with this app, there is simply no need. If I hold my camera at the wrong angle, Genius Scan fixes it for me. It compensates for angles and bumps and misalignments and churns out an absolutely professional looking scan in seconds. It’s so accurate, it genuinely looks like it was a saved document, never having been printed and scanned. If, for some reason, my document is wonky and scans a weird edge, Genius scan lets me fix it. Over and above its perfect scans, it allows me to export…down to the very subfolder… of my Google Drive, my Microsoft OneDrive and even my Apple Files. I can email it to myself or someone else. It’s just seamless. I’m continually more and more impressed with this app and it’s saved me so much time and money, I cannot be more thankful for this app. Well done, devs, well done. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
EXCELLENT!
11/12/2022

Robin Hood 51
I have used a lot of different scanner apps. Most of them work but that’s about as much if you can say for them. They are not excellent, and in most cases are not even great. They are just simply functional. I went to the office of a notary to have a paper notarized and I just made an offhand comment that I was headed for a copy shop to have the documents scanned and turned into a PDF file. He answered back that he was able to do that for me. I was shocked to see him whip out his phone and snap a picture of it. I expect the results to be as bad as all of the other ones that I have used in the past and I couldn’t believe my eyes. It corrects for Keystone distortion, and it removes trace background edges around the page. Actually work better when placed on a darker background so there’s more distinction between the edge of the page and the background itself. I would like to extend a high-five to the developer of this app. You have really done and astonishingly good job. Congratulations.
EXCELLENT!
11/12/2022

Robin Hood 51

I have used a lot of different scanner apps. Most of them work but that’s about as much if you can say for them. They are not excellent, and in most cases are not even great. They are just simply functional. I went to the office of a notary to have a paper notarized and I just made an offhand comment that I was headed for a copy shop to have the documents scanned and turned into a PDF file. He answered back that he was able to do that for me. I was shocked to see him whip out his phone and snap a picture of it. I expect the results to be as bad as all of the other ones that I have used in the past and I couldn’t believe my eyes. It corrects for Keystone distortion, and it removes trace background edges around the page. Actually work better when placed on a darker background so there’s more distinction between the edge of the page and the background itself. I would like to extend a high-five to the developer of this app. You have really done and astonishingly good job. Congratulations.
The Online Student’s Savior
11/17/2020

blargyish
i’ve been in online school since the beginning of the pandemic, and this app is a lifesaver. it doesn’t limit how many documents you scan like other apps, and its automatic scanning trick is pretty okay. just don’t but the paper on a light colored surface, or have too many other objects in the frame. my favorite part is the ability to directly upload from my phone to the desktop of my computer (since they’re linked by icloud). if that’s not your speed, you can airdrop it to your downloads folder. the back and white filter is just as good as a printer scan, and there’s an option to edit the document after you take the photo. I never needed any other part of the app, so i didn’t need premium, which is amazing. it also uploads as a pdf, which saves me all the trouble of converting it myself. compared to other scan apps, i found this one to be the most efficient, since it works well and doesn’t have any frustrating limits for free users.
The Online Student’s Savior
11/17/2020

blargyish

i’ve been in online school since the beginning of the pandemic, and this app is a lifesaver. it doesn’t limit how many documents you scan like other apps, and its automatic scanning trick is pretty okay. just don’t but the paper on a light colored surface, or have too many other objects in the frame. my favorite part is the ability to directly upload from my phone to the desktop of my computer (since they’re linked by icloud). if that’s not your speed, you can airdrop it to your downloads folder. the back and white filter is just as good as a printer scan, and there’s an option to edit the document after you take the photo. I never needed any other part of the app, so i didn’t need premium, which is amazing. it also uploads as a pdf, which saves me all the trouble of converting it myself. compared to other scan apps, i found this one to be the most efficient, since it works well and doesn’t have any frustrating limits for free users.
Works great!…most of the time.
01/27/2023

The last warning.
I use this app to scan documents for my university classes. Once scanned, the features within the app provide augmentations, such as leaving natural light or white light (i.e, displaying the visual differences between a photo or a “scan” of the document). I also love that if I’m scanning dozens of pages all at once, if I make a mistake on one scan, I have the option to re-do that scan rather than starting over just to ensure the documents are in order. Once satisfied, I can email the document (however large or small) and it will appear instantly in my inbox.The one issue I’ve found, is that sometimes it does not appear in my inbox until hours or even a day after I scanned my work. This can be EXTREMELY frustrating when my deadline is that evening. There’s no way to assess when these hiccups occur, since it appears to have no correlation to document size or scanning frequency.Overall, I’m thankful to have this app. It’s so much faster to use than my physical printer/scanner.

Developer Response
Hi, thank you for your review. Your scans might get stuck in your Outbox. To make sure they are sent, we encourage customers to open the Mail app after exporting a scan via email. This should trigger the scans to send immediately, or you can go to the Outbox and send them again from there.
Works great!…most of the time.
01/27/2023

The last warning.

I use this app to scan documents for my university classes. Once scanned, the features within the app provide augmentations, such as leaving natural light or white light (i.e, displaying the visual differences between a photo or a “scan” of the document). I also love that if I’m scanning dozens of pages all at once, if I make a mistake on one scan, I have the option to re-do that scan rather than starting over just to ensure the documents are in order. Once satisfied, I can email the document (however large or small) and it will appear instantly in my inbox.The one issue I’ve found, is that sometimes it does not appear in my inbox until hours or even a day after I scanned my work. This can be EXTREMELY frustrating when my deadline is that evening. There’s no way to assess when these hiccups occur, since it appears to have no correlation to document size or scanning frequency.Overall, I’m thankful to have this app. It’s so much faster to use than my physical printer/scanner.
Developer Response 02/01/2023
Hi, thank you for your review. Your scans might get stuck in your Outbox. To make sure they are sent, we encourage customers to open the Mail app after exporting a scan via email. This should trigger the scans to send immediately, or you can go to the Outbox and send them again from there.

In this new version of Genius Scan, we’re introducing a refreshed onboarding experience, a set of helpful enhancements, and multiple stability fixes — all designed to make scanning and sharing documents smoother and more reliable. NEW ONBOARDING New users will now see a redesigned onboarding that guides them through scanning their first document or importing images from the Photo Library, while also highlighting Genius Scan’s most powerful features. ENHANCEMENTS - Clearer feedback in lists and exports: the document export status badge has been refined so it’s much easier to see at a glance when an export has failed. FIXES - Restored the folder search scope on iOS 26, so you can once again limit search results to the current folder or extend them to all documents in the app. - Creating an FTP Export Shortcut no longer causes the app to crash when a connection cannot be opened, and FTP streams that turn out to be NULL are now handled safely. - Fixed an issue that could prevent exporting a newly created screenshot into Genius Scan on iOS 26. - Fixed a bug that could prevent documents from being deleted when using Export Shortcuts, ensuring that all documents are correctly removed when an Export Shortcut includes a deletion rule. - The "Hour" component in Document Name Templates now consistently uses two digits (for both 12‑hour and 24‑hour formats), helping keep documents neatly ordered by time and ensuring consistent document names when sharing them. - Resolved a bug where starting a new scan could fail with "The camera is not available at the moment" if a previous scan session hadn’t been fully cleared. - Fixed potential crashes and freezes during document capture. - Prevented freezes that could occur while performing Text Recognition on older devices.

Version 8.6

3d ago

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