Ream: Scanner & PDF Tools
Scan, sign and shrink PDFs
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A black box over text is not redaction: the words are still in the file. Ream deletes them. With on-device OCR, compression and password locking. 99¢ once.
Scan a page. Get a real PDF.
Ream turns your iPhone into a scanner and a full PDF toolkit — and doesn't rent them to you by the month.
Point the camera at a document and Ream straightens it, cleans it up and saves it as a PDF. Merge documents, pull pages out, reorder them, rotate them, rename them, share them. All of that is free, and nothing Ream makes ever carries a watermark.
One payment of 99¢ unlocks the rest, forever.
MAKE SCANS SEARCHABLE
Ream reads the pages and lays an invisible text layer over the scan, so you can search, select and copy from a photographed document — and find it again from the library search later. Recognition runs on your device: no upload, no page limit, no per-page charge.
COMPRESS
Get a PDF under an upload limit, and see the honest before-and-after. If flattening the file would make it bigger, Ream tells you instead of doing it.
SIGN
Draw your signature once and drop it on any page. The rest of the page is redrawn exactly as it was, so signing a contract doesn't turn it into a picture of a contract.
REDACT PROPERLY
The text under the black box is removed from the file, not just covered over. Redact something, then search the document for it — it is gone.
LOCK WITH A PASSWORD
Encrypt a document before you send it. Ream keeps no copy of the password and has no way to recover it.
NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE
Ream contains no network code at all. No account, no server, no subscription, no analytics, no ads. Your documents stay on your iPhone, and the privacy label says no data collected because it is literally true.
FREE FOREVER
Scanning, importing from Photos and Files, merging, splitting, extracting pages, reordering, rotating, renaming and sharing — free, unlimited, unwatermarked.
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Nothing new to use — this update only corrects how Ream is listed on the App Store, so the tools it already has are easier to find.
The developer, Aryaman Ravi, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Aryaman Ravi
- Size
- 1.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Ream Pro $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Aryaman Ravi
