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
== ENTERPRISE EDITION ==
Genius Scan Plus Premium Plan:
- All the premium features of the Genius Scan Plus Premium Plan (denoted with + below), out of the box (no upgrade needed).
Managed Configuration:
- Deployment to fleets of devices managed by a MDM tool
- Pre-configuration of app settings on a per-user basis (eg. set default email address, WebDAV/FTP credentials)
- Control of which apps and services users can export documents to
- No ads
== 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
== 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 ==
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.
https://www.thegrizzlylabs.com/genius-scan/cloud/terms
Very dependable app that just gets smarter and smarter...I love it.
BigPoppaTuesday1492
I love this app. It is one of the few that stands out as golden, a must-have for me. It is a huge time-saver. The quality of the PDFs is such that I don't even have to crank up my scanner for most purposes. I just take a picture or import an image from photos, let the mostly automatic features clean it up for me, move pages around if I want, and then hit send and done. There are additional features I haven't dug into but every feature I have used works flawlessly, updates are seamless and have consistently made the app more intuitive while keeping to the original sense of workflow so you don't have a new learning curve with every update. And I have had it for years and they've never had me pay for an update. I've never had a complaint about it as either a user or from clients and others receiving the scans, yet I am always pleasantly surprised how the upgrades continue to improve and streamline the experience. I am going out of my way here to give clear kudos because this is one of those rare apps that actually delivers what it promises and this development team deserves deep praise. Thank you for the time you've saved me.
High function, light weight.
Legohouse2542
I have used this app for several years, including a period of several months when I used it to scan all our mail. Simple, fast, intuitive, and functional. Well worth the price. - de-skew mechanism- pdf or jpg - integration to google drive, mail, photosI routinely use it to do impromptu scans of whiteboards, letters, angled pix. The de-skew means you can get a good picture without glare or flash reflection, then straighten it. Maintenance and enhancement has tracked over all this time. The de-skew automated corner finding is finicky (A good contrast background helps a lot), but the UI to adjust it is quick and intuitive. This is important, because many pix require that you eyeball the perspective (whiteboard diagrams, store signs). The image post processing is also good, especially for documents. I use the integration to google drive and photos a lot. I scan and mail docs all the time. I always have the best picture of the whiteboard to distribute. Provided is a good way to build up a database of docs on your phone, but I have found that is a mixed blessing, security concerns). Currently keep it down to a few docs. I see there is now a cloud integration mode, which I haven’t used—if you trust this with your docs, I can see that it would make it a lot easier to maintain.
From 5 to 2 stars with latest version
RobbieGB
This used to be one of my favorite apps and I gave it an excellent review a few years ago. But all of a sudden this update has made it a so aggravating that it's almost unusable for me. It used to ask me to scan a page at a time and now it thinks I want to scan multiple pages and it's not easy to figure out how to end a scan. Because it used to scan one page at a time I could correct the orientation of each page as I scanned it but now I have to go into the document and adjust each one separately which cost me more time. It locked up when exporting and I had multiple problems exporting it to dropbox. Sometimes it would only send one of multiple pages other times it would lock up and the latest option was squishing two pages into one page. It might be because one was landscape and one was portrait but it still should be able to fix that. It's just a bummer when something works well and then it becomes so aggravating you wish you hadn't purchased it.
Developer Response
Hello,With this last update we know we have changed quite a bit and we understand that this can be frustrating. The next major update will actually make everything much faster (actually faster than the previous update) but we needed to take this step before. I apologize for this being inconvenient. We are also restoring the Single/Batch switch in the next minor update of Genius Scan (to be released as soon as Apple approves it!).We would be happy to help you further if you could email us at support@thegrizzlylabs.com.Regards,Bruno
Excellent Scanner App!
davidr42
I have used this app for over ten years. While on the road I accumulate receipts, financial, legal, and medical documents. I use this app to get an image of each document and save as a pdf and directly to my cloud service — files are then accessible to all my devices. I no longer have a pile of scanning to do when I get home. Also, for any single document of a few pages, this is quicker than using my scanner and Macbook. The quality is excellent since my iPhone 16 Pro has a great camera. If you want or need a portable scanner and have a good device, like an iPhone or an iPad, then this app can help you make efficient use of your time. Also, customer service is excellent. They got back to me the next day with a solution that worked — nice people too!
Genius Scan 8.9 improves day-to-day reliability and polish, with a focus on stability throughout the app and the style of several visual elements so the app feels even more refined.
IMPROVED
- For OneDrive Export Shortcuts, Genius Scan now shows a warning banner when opening the destination picker to explain that some folders may not appear because of Microsoft changes.
FIXED
- Fixed an issue where the toolbar could be disabled after previewing a page in the Page selection screen.
- Fully restored QR code detection in the camera screen.
- Fixed a bug that could repeatedly show the Subscription sheet after renewal for some users with monthly subscriptions.
- Prevented blurry thumbnail images that could occur in grid view in some cases.
Version 8.9
The developer, The Grizzly Labs, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
User Content
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Usage Data
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