One-time $4.99. No subscription, no account. Scan, search inside every scan, and back up to your own iCloud.
ScanWow turns your iPhone and iPad into a fast document scanner. Scan, search inside every scan, and keep it all private. Try 3 documents free, then unlock unlimited scanning for a one-time $4.99. No subscription, ever.
MADE IN AMERICA. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS.
ScanWow is designed and built in Birmingham, Alabama.
- No account and no sign-up
- Text recognition runs on your device
- Your scans are not stored on our servers
- No ads and no tracking
- Backups go to your own iCloud, not ours (Pro)
SEARCH INSIDE EVERY SCAN
Find any receipt, contract, or note by a word inside it, not just its file name.
SCAN ANYTHING
- Receipts, documents, business cards, whiteboards, notes
- Automatic edge detection and cropping
- Color, grayscale, and black and white modes
- Multi-page PDFs: add pages, then export one clean PDF
READS TEXT IN UP TO 17 LANGUAGES
Copy or share the text from any scan. Text is read on your device. Some languages use a backup reader that downloads its language data the first time it is used, so that first scan needs an internet connection. On iOS 15, only English is supported.
RECEIPTS AND TAX TIME
Snap receipts as you go. Find them later by store, item, or total.
SIRI AND SHORTCUTS
Say "Scan a document with ScanWow" or add scanning to your own shortcuts.
OPTIONAL MAGIC ENHANCE
Tap Magic Enhance on any page for AI clean-up and formatting. Only the pages you choose are sent to Anthropic Claude for processing, with Google Gemini as a backup, and they are not stored on our servers. Pages you don't choose are not sent to us or to our AI providers. Magic Enhance uses credits, and extra credit refills are an optional separate purchase.
PRICING
- Free: try the app on 3 documents. A 10-page contract counts as one.
- ScanWow Pro: $4.99 one-time purchase. Unlimited scans, automatic iCloud backup, and 1,000 Magic Enhance credits. No subscription.
Questions? Visit scanwow.io/support
Thanks Rob. If there's anything that would make it a 5 for you, let us know and we'll take a look.
Simple, accurate, and privacy first
PeopleCallMeT
Fast, accurate, and refreshingly simple. ScanWow puts privacy first, with everything staying on your device by default. The scans are great, the text extraction is spot on, and there’s zero clutter. You can tell this was made with care.
Developer Response
Appreciate the kind words. Keeping it simple and on-device was the whole point, so glad that came through.
Owner, Digitally Demented
BlazeDaDragon
Clean, simple app that does exactly what it says. I've already put in a feature request, and the developer has already responded. Very excited to see what's next from this developer!
Developer Response
Thanks Blaze. Keep the feature requests coming, we read all of them and a few are already in the works. More soon.
Grab text is awesome
43jinks
Great for scanning unique items. Best way to turn your phone into a scanner!! The ability to take a picture and grab all text instantly is amazing!
Developer Response
Really glad the text grabbing is clicking for you, 43jinks. That's the part we spent the most time on, so good to hear it's working.
- Adaptive layouts for iPhone Duo and other wider iPhones.
- Reinstalled ScanWow? Pro now comes back by itself, with no sign-in prompt.
- Ask to Buy: Pro unlocks by itself as soon as it is approved.
- The upgrade screen now tells you why it opened.
- New "Share ScanWow" row in Settings.
- Free PDFs carry a small "Scanned with ScanWow" footer. Pro PDFs stay clean.
- Magic Enhance now runs on Anthropic Claude, with Google Gemini as a backup.
Version 3.0.5
The developer, Captain Intelligence LLC, 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:
Purchases
User Content
Identifiers
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
