Overpriced desktop scanners are being replaced by a $25 app that lasts for life

TL;DR: iScanner is an iOS and Android scanner app that works on any document, and it’s only $25 for life.

Dedicated scanners are overpriced, take up desk space, and aren’t there when you need them away from home. iScanner turns your iPhone, iPad, or Android device into a full document scanner, and a lifetime subscription is only $24.97 (reg. $199.90).

iScanner is the number one scanning app on the App Store with a 4.8 rating from over 100 million downloads, and a 4.7 on Google Play with over 10 million. The scanning works with contracts, tax forms, receipts, handwritten notes, ID cards, passports, and multipage documents. You can even export them across file formats, including PDF, JPG, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or plain text. AI tools automatically detect and adjust document borders, straighten pages, and recognize text in over 20 languages, so scans come out clean without manual correction.

Beyond scanning, iScanner works as a full PDF editor and file manager. Documents can be edited with color correction and noise removal, signed manually or with a saved signature image, and protected with a PIN. Merging multiple documents into one file, splitting by page, adding watermarks, footers, and page numbers, and autofilling forms using custom templates are all built in. Files are organized in folders with drag-and-drop support, and confidential scans can be locked at the folder or file level.

The varied scanning modes are really where things get interesting. Math mode solves equations directly from a photo. Area mode measures object dimensions and calculates area. Count mode identifies and counts similar objects in a frame automatically. QR code scanning is built in as well.

The app is ad-free, runs on iOS 16 or later and Android 10 or later, and includes 200MB of cloud storage.

Put that old desktop scanner out to pasture. Get an iScanner lifetime subscription for $24.97. Sale ends June 14 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

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