Open Scanner
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Open Scanner, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Open Scanner's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | No ads · no in-app purchases · no subscriptions |
The facts
Each one read from Open Scanner's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accounts
- The App Store listing describes Open Scanner as a native iOS app that requires no third-party accounts.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data collection
- The maker says the app has no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs and that Apple provides it only aggregated app telemetry.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Document privacy
- Pencil Research says it cannot access documents created in the app because they are encrypted with the user’s Apple ID and private to that user.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Document tools
- Users can organize and reorder pages, annotate and edit scans, and share or export them as PDFs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- iPad and Vision Pro
- The App Store listing says the app supports Apple Pencil markup on iPad and native Vision Pro support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Library and sync
- Scans are saved in a built-in library and synced to the user’s devices.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Location tagging
- The app can annotate scans with location data if the user grants optional location permission.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR included
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Open source
- The app is open source under the MIT License, and its maker says developers can audit or republish the source code.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Open Scanner scans receipts, notes, textbooks, and other documents with an iPhone.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Signatures
- The App Store listing says users can add signatures saved on their other devices.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker’s site links to an email contact for Pencil Research.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Text recognition
- The App Store listing says the app provides automatic text recognition to build a page transcript.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Android app
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- iOS app
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Platform requirements
- The App Store lists the app as iPhone-only and requires iOS 16.0 or later; it also lists Apple Vision compatibility with visionOS 1.0 or later.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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