1Scanner turns paper into clean, searchable PDFs in the size you need, signed and stamped if you like, and reads and creates QR codes. Scanning, text recognition and code reading all happen on your iPhone or iPad: no account, no ads, no tracking, no server.
For iPhone and iPad, in 45 languages. Free with 10 scanned pages a day; Premium from $0.99 a week.
| Free use | Every feature, with 10 scanned pages per local day. Imported PDFs do not count. |
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| Optional Premium | Removes the daily page limit and closable reminders. Weekly, monthly and yearly plans below. |
| Privacy | No account, ads or tracking SDKs. App Store label: Data Not Collected. |
| Processing | Scanning, OCR and PDF tools on your device. You choose where to share files or save copies. |
| Compatibility | iPhone and iPad, iOS/iPadOS 17 or later. Optional Summary needs a compatible Apple Intelligence device. |
| Languages | 45 interface languages; OCR has its own device-dependent language list. |
Version 1.0.1 facts checked October 3, 2026. App Store · Privacy policy
Real scans, real file sizes, nothing uploaded. Jump to a feature:
Put a page under the camera, then the next one. 1Scanner finds each page, straightens it and captures it by itself when it's steady, then waits for a new page, so it never takes the same page twice.
Auto is on from the start: a steady page is captured, and the next capture waits until you turn the page. The shutter always works by hand too, and the flashlight helps in dim rooms.
Captured pages stack up with a counter. Tap the stack to see the last page large, and retake or delete it on the spot.
Auto removes shadows and makes the paper white and the text crisp. Or choose Original, Grayscale or Black & White, for one page or all of them.
Crop with corner and edge handles and a magnifier, rotate, drag pages into order, add pages or retake one. Each page keeps its original photo, so crop and filter can be changed later.
Turn photos and screenshots into PDF pages: pick them in the system photo picker, and each page is found and straightened. 1Scanner never asks to read your photo library.
Scan the front, then the back: 1Scanner fits both sides on one page at standard ID-1 card size (85.6 × 54 mm). Larger paper IDs are scaled to those dimensions; check what the recipient needs before sending.
Start a scan or a QR scan straight from the Home Screen icon, Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts or the Action button.
Contracts, receipts and ID cards should not share an app with analytics and advertising SDKs. Scanning, text recognition and code reading all happen on your iPhone, and 1Scanner has no server of its own: it talks only to Apple, for purchases, and hands the links you choose to Safari. Its App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected.
Scans, text, signatures and QR codes are processed on your iPhone with Apple's frameworks. Scanning and PDF editing work offline. Optional on-device AI features need a compatible device with the model already available.
No analytics, advertising, attribution or crash-reporting SDKs, and no tracking prompt, because nothing is tracked. No data is collected.
Open the app and scan. There is nothing to sign up for. Purchases go through your Apple Account, and we never see payment details.
Documents stay in the app. Want copies outside it? Turn on Save PDF copies to a folder for one-way PDF copies in Files or iCloud Drive while the app is open. This excludes business cards. Copies stay when you delete a document or the app; this is not library sync.
Lock 1Scanner with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. While it's locked, the app switcher shows no document content.
The camera when you first scan, Face ID when you turn on App Lock, add-only Photos access when you save a code to Photos. No access to the rest of your photo library, no reading of your contacts or calendar, no location permission and no notifications. Adding a business card to Contacts uses the system screen you choose to open.
Prepare a document for a bank, landlord or employer while keeping the original in your library.
Turn on Watermark in Share and enter who the copy is for and why, with an optional date. The line is burned into every exported PDF or JPEG page. Your library document stays clean; plain text is not watermarked.
A watermark identifies the intended use. It does not guarantee acceptance or prevent every kind of misuse.
Draw a black box over a number, address or photo, or tap a recognized text line. Save a new document with those areas removed from its page images and recognized text. The original stays unchanged, so share the redacted copy.
You choose what to hide. Check the recipient’s requirements and review every page before sending.
Scans too big to attach are the classic scanner problem. For PDF and JPEG, 1Scanner's Share step offers Original, Medium and Small and measures the files before sending. Plain-text export is a separate choice. Use Compress to make a smaller copy of an imported PDF.
Sizes are measured on your iPhone by building the real files, not guessed. A progress indicator appears while the file size is being measured.
1Scanner recognizes supported languages on your iPhone, so you can search and copy text without uploading a page. Recognition depends on the language, page quality and the recognizer on your device.
Text recognition runs while 1Scanner is open, one page at a time. Choose its supported languages in Settings; changing the app language does not add an OCR language.
Summarize: get a few points from a recognized document on compatible iPhones and iPads with iOS/iPadOS 26 or later, Apple Intelligence enabled and its on-device model available in a supported language and region. Long documents use the first 50 pages. Check important details against the document; the summary is not saved automatically.
Add your signature and your company seal once. Then place them on any page in seconds, on your scans and on PDFs from Mail or Files.
Kept only on your device, with file protection, and never uploaded; delete them any time. 1Scanner places images of your own signature and stamp, like any PDF editor. It is not a certified e-signature service.
Capture card fronts one after another, or import a photo with several cards. Review recognized names, companies, phones and emails next to each image and correct them. Add a card to Contacts or export cards as vCard or CSV. Each saved card counts as one scanned page; reading depends on supported OCR languages.
Passport mode frames the photo page and places it at passport-page size on A4 or Letter. You can then add a watermark to the copy you send. This is a document image, not a biometric-photo maker or an NFC chip reader.
Book mode splits a camera capture into left and right pages. Choose which page comes first, then edit the pages. Hold the book flat: curved pages are not flattened. A spread counts as two scanned pages; imported photos are not split by Book mode.
Compress, merge, split, sign or lock a PDF: your scans, or PDFs from Mail and Files. Compress, merge and split make a new document and never change your original.
Scanning QR codes and barcodes is free and unlimited. Nothing opens by itself: the QR code reader shows the full address, with the real domain highlighted, before you decide.
The real domain is highlighted, with a warning for lookalike or mixed-alphabet characters, a bare IP address, a user@host trick, plain http, a known link shortener or a brand name hidden in a subdomain. Links open in Safari, so its own fraudulent-website warning still applies.
Join a Wi-Fi network in one tap or copy its password. Contacts and events are shown first, then added through the iPhone's own screens: 1Scanner never asks for access to your contacts or calendar.
EAN, UPC and ISBN codes show the number and its type, with links to search the web, Open Food Facts or Open Library. The app itself sends nothing.
Scanned codes go to a history you can search and delete; turn it off or clear it in Settings. Codes in a photo or a screenshot can be read too.
Create QR codes for a link, text, Wi-Fi, a contact, an email or a phone number, with a live preview. Share them, save them to Photos or save them as a PDF.
Create Code 128 barcodes the same way. Codes are static: they contain the data itself, so they never expire.
Reads QR, Micro QR, Aztec, Data Matrix and PDF417 codes, and EAN, UPC, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, ITF, Codabar and GS1 DataBar barcodes.
Everything in 1Scanner works for free. Premium removes the daily limit and the reminders; the price and the period are always on the button.
Sharing, exporting and printing are never locked, on any plan. Base prices are in USD, excluding VAT and other local taxes. Subscriptions renew automatically; cancel in iOS Settings › your name › Subscriptions.
Scanning a page is simple. What makes many scanner apps painful is everything around it. 1Scanner leaves that out on purpose.
You scan twenty pages, then find out that saving or sending them costs money.
Sharing, exporting and printing are never locked. The daily limit is checked before a scan starts, never after.
Choose a week, a month or a year according to how often you scan.
$0.99 a week, $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year. The purchase button names the selected price and period.
A logo on every page you send, or ads between you and your document.
No forced app logo and no ads. Add your own signature, stamp or recipient watermark when you choose.
A close button that appears after a few seconds, and a paywall before you have scanned a single page.
“Continue free” is always visible, and your first scan comes before any Premium screen.
Microsoft retired Lens in January 2026, scanning in the app stopped in March, and Microsoft points people to OneDrive instead (Microsoft Support). 1Scanner scans to PDF on your iPhone, with no account and no cloud.
Apple's Notes and Files apps can scan a document for free (Apple Support), and for a quick one-off they are fine. 1Scanner is for when paper is part of your week: batch capture that waits for the next page, the real file size before you send, a library with search, your signature and company stamp, ID copies and QR codes with the real link shown first.
Yes. Everything in 1Scanner works for free, with 10 scanned pages a day. Your first scan starts right after the welcome pages, with no Premium screen first. After that, a short reminder you can close appears before every third eligible action, such as starting a scan or creating a new document with a tool. Premium ($0.99 a week, $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year) removes the daily limit and the reminders. There are no ads or forced app watermarks; your own optional watermark is free too. Sharing, exporting and printing are never locked.
Camera pages and photos turned into pages count when saved. Each saved business card counts as one page and each captured book spread as two. Imported PDFs, sharing, printing, signing and QR scanning do not count. The limit is checked when a scan starts, so a scan you've started always finishes, even past 10 pages. The count starts again the next day.
No. Scanning, text recognition and code reading happen on your iPhone or iPad, and 1Scanner has no server to upload to. It has no account and no analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs; it talks only to Apple, for purchases. Your documents stay in the app unless you choose to share them or save PDF copies to a folder. Its App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected.
Yes. Save your signature, initials or company seal once: scan it on white paper, pick a photo or a file, or draw it. 1Scanner removes the paper and keeps the ink's color. Then place it on any page, move, resize and turn it, or add it to all pages, including PDFs from Mail or Files. Signatures and stamps are kept only on your device. 1Scanner places images of your own signature and stamp, like any PDF editor; it is not a certified e-signature service.
PDF and JPEG export offers Original, Medium and Small, with measured file sizes; plain-text export is separate. For an imported PDF, use Compress to create a smaller copy. Results depend on the pages. The receipt in this page’s screenshot measures 167 kB, 119 kB and 51 kB respectively; these are example sizes, not promised results for your document.
1Scanner never opens a link by itself. It shows the full address with the real domain highlighted and warns about lookalike characters, bare IP addresses, plain http, link shorteners and brand names hidden in subdomains. Links open in Safari, so Safari's own fraudulent-website warning still applies. No app can catch every scam, so check the domain before you open a link.
Yes. ID card mode scans the front, then the back, and fits both sides on one page at standard ID-1 card size (85.6 × 54 mm). Larger paper IDs are scaled to that size; check the recipient’s requirements.
Yes. Scanning, text recognition, search, signatures and stamps, the PDF tools and QR code reading all work without an internet connection. Purchases, restoring Premium, opening web links and sharing through online services need a connection. Optional on-device AI needs its compatible model downloaded and available first.
Your library lives inside 1Scanner and can be included in device backups according to your system settings; deleting the app deletes the library on the device. To keep PDFs outside the app, turn on Save PDF copies to a folder in Settings › Backup (off by default): one-way copies are written while the app is open and stay when you delete a document or the app. This is not library sync and does not include business cards. Export all documents writes every PDF to a folder once. Documents you delete inside 1Scanner wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
Yes. 1Scanner works on iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later.
The interface supports 45 languages, including English and Spanish, with Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu right to left. Switch it in the app’s Settings. OCR uses a separate list supplied by your device; interface translation does not imply text-recognition support.
1Scanner for iPhone and iPad. Private by design, free to use.
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