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40+ Best ScanGuru: PDF Scanner App Alternatives for iPhone (2026)

ScanGuru: PDF Scanner App is S tier, #8 of the 40 tiered apps in PDF scanners. Here is everything that competes with it on iPhone, in tier order.

Most similar

  1. Adobe Scan: PDF & Doc ScannerAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.8S
  2. Scanner Pro - Scan to PDFAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.8S
  3. Scanner App: Genius ScanAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.9S

Top rated in PDF Scanners

  1. CamScanner - PDF Scanner AppAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.9S
  2. iScanner: PDF Document ScannerAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.7S
  3. Scanner - Scan PDF, ID & DocsAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.7S

Best free

  1. Scanner App - Scan PDF & DocsAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.6S
  2. Mobile Scanner App - Scan PDFAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.7S
  3. PDF Scanner App: TapScannerAlso in Document Scanning · Free + IAP · ★ 4.7S

All 47 alternatives, in tier order

  1. 1
    CamScanner - PDF Scanner AppS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 15,056,134 ratings · score 99
    Scans documents, recognizes text, and converts files to PDF and other formats.
  2. 2
    Adobe Scan: PDF & Doc ScannerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 7,146,207 ratings · score 99
    Scans paper documents and images into PDFs or JPEGs, with OCR and editing tools.
  3. 3
    Scanner Pro - Scan to PDFS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 846,101 ratings · score 99
    Scans documents and converts them to PDFs and other file formats.
  4. 4
    Scanner App: Genius ScanS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 2,721,212 ratings · score 99
    Scans paper documents and exports them as multi-page PDFs.
  5. 5
    iScanner: PDF Document ScannerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,894,702 ratings · score 98
    Scans, edits, and manages documents, with PDF tools and OCR.
  6. 6
    Scanner - Scan PDF, ID & DocsS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 998,900 ratings · score 97
    Scans paper documents into digital files, with tools to edit, sign, convert, and share them.
  7. 7
    TurboScan™ Pro: PDF scannerS
    $12.99 · ★ 4.9 · 450,730 ratings · score 97
    Scans documents and receipts into PDF or JPEG files on an iPhone.
  8. 9
    Scanner App - Scan PDF & DocsS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 171,856 ratings · score 96
    Scans documents and converts photos and files to PDF.
  9. 10
    Mobile Scanner App - Scan PDFS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 251,887 ratings · score 96
    Scans documents and photos into PDFs and images, with OCR, editing, signing, and file sharing.
  10. 11
    PDF Scanner App: TapScannerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 382,164 ratings · score 95
    Scans documents to PDF and includes tools to edit, organize, convert, and share files.
  11. 12
    Tiny Scanner - PDF Scanner AppS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 354,202 ratings · score 95
    Scans documents, converts them to PDF, and provides tools to edit, convert, and secure files.
  12. 13
    Scanner App. JPG, Photo to PDFA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 202,750 ratings · score 94
    Scans documents and converts them to PDF or JPG on an iPhone or iPad.
  13. 14
    PDF Scanner・Document ScannerA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 102,538 ratings · score 94
    Scans documents and photos, with options to edit and export scans as PDF or JPEG.
  14. 15
    FineReader: PDF Scanner & OCRA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 172,153 ratings · score 94
    Scans documents, saves them as PDFs or JPEGs, and extracts text from scans.
  15. 16
    Scanner PDF - scan documentA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 279,346 ratings · score 94
    Scans paper documents and saves them as digital files.
  16. 17
    Scan Hero: PDF ScannerA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,077,136 ratings · score 93
    Scans documents and saves them as PDFs or images for editing, organizing, and sharing.
  17. 18
    Clear Scan: Doc Scanner AppA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 369,911 ratings · score 93
    Scans documents, receipts, photos, and other items, with options to save scans as PDFs.
  18. 19
    Scan to PDF-Document ScannerA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 259,505 ratings · score 92
    Scans documents, recognizes text, signs files, and exports them in several formats.
  19. 20
    Scan to PDF: Converter ScannerA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 29,503 ratings · score 92
    Scans documents and saves them as PDF, JPEG, or TXT files.
  20. 21
    iLovePDF - PDF Editor & ScanA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 775,305 ratings · score 92
    Scans, converts, edits, annotates, and signs PDF documents.
  21. 22
    Document Scanner by LufickA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 149,191 ratings · score 92
    Scans documents with a mobile camera and can save them as PDF or JPEG files.
  22. 23
    uScan - PDF Document ScannerA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 91,736 ratings · score 91
    Scans documents, converts images to text, and creates PDF or DOC files.
  23. 24
    PDF Scanner AI: Scan DocumentsB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 32,196 ratings · score 90
    Scans documents and photos, recognizes text, and creates or edits PDFs.
  24. 25
    PDF Scanner | Document ScanB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 3,845 ratings · score 90
    Scans paper documents into searchable PDFs or JPEGs using a phone camera.
  25. 26
    Camera Scanner: PDF ConverterB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 59,019 ratings · score 89
    Scans documents and converts photos to PDFs, with tools to edit and manage files.
  26. 27
    QR Code Reader & PDF ScannerB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 33,249 ratings · score 89
    Scans documents, images, QR codes and barcodes, with tools to manage and edit scans.
  27. 28
    Doc Scan - PDF ScannerB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 32,852 ratings · score 88
    Scans, edits, organizes, and shares documents as PDFs and other file types.
  28. 29
    PDF Scanner Pro ⊟B
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 78,359 ratings · score 88
    Scans papers and IDs into PDFs and provides tools to edit, sign, print, and compress documents.
  29. 30
    SwiftScan AI Document ScannerB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 174,329 ratings · score 88
    Scans documents and QR codes into PDFs or JPGs, with OCR, editing, signing, and AI tools.
  30. 31
    CamScanner + | OCR ScannerB
    $0.99 + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 141,445 ratings · score 88
    Scans documents into PDFs or images, with OCR, sharing, printing and faxing features.
  31. 32
    SCAN ACE · PDF Scanner AppB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 63,769 ratings · score 87
    Scans documents and images, converts them to PDF, and provides tools to edit and manage PDFs.
  32. 33
    One Scan: PDF Doc ScannerB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 71,254 ratings · score 87
    Scans documents and other materials into searchable PDFs, with OCR, editing, signing and sharing tools.
  33. 34
    PDF Document Scanner App °B
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 33,618 ratings · score 87
    Scans text documents, saves them as images, and combines them into PDF files.
  34. 35
    PDF Scanner: AI OCR & Doc ScanB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 90,214 ratings · score 86
    Scans documents and photos, converts scans to PDFs, and provides document management tools.
  35. 36
    xScan : Document Scanner AppC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 134,283 ratings · score 86
    Scans documents with an iPhone camera and saves them as PDF, JPEG or DOC files.
  36. 37
    PDFMaker: JPG to PDF converterC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 28,875 ratings · score 86
    Creates PDFs from scanned pictures or images in your camera roll.
  37. 38
    vFlat Scan - PDF & OCR ScannerC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 166,518 ratings · score 86
    Scans thick books, documents and sheet music flat with AI curve correction, OCR text conversion and PDF export.
  38. 39
    Scanner App for iPhoneC
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 1,440 ratings · score 86
    Scans documents and saves them as PDF or JPEG.
  39. 40
    My Scanner: Scan to PDF & EditC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 68,180 ratings · score 85
    Scans and edits documents, converts PDFs, and includes writing and utility tools.
  40. 169
    PDF Reader Pro: Scan & ConvertF
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 2,132 ratings · score 63
    Free iPhone and iPad app for reading, scanning, editing, converting and organizing PDF files, with HWP file viewing and.
  41. 170
    ScanDoc Pro: Scan All DocumentF
    Free · ★ 4.6 · 69 ratings · score 62
    Scans documents and IDs, edits and signs PDFs, and converts files to PDF.
  42. 171
    PDF Reader - Editor & ScannerF
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 906 ratings · score 62
    Free utility app to read, scan, edit, sign, convert and organize PDF and office documents on iPhone and iPad.
  43. 172
    PDF Reader: Scanner & OCR ScanF
    Free · ★ 4.4 · 75 ratings · score 59
    Free utility app for reading, editing, signing and scanning PDFs, extracting text with OCR, and converting document.
  44. 173
    PDF Scan - Image to PDFF
    Free · ★ 4.1 · 1,066 ratings · score 57
    Scans documents and converts images into PDF files.
  45. 174
    PDF Scanner App: Scan DocumentF
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 7,235 ratings · score 40
    Scans documents, edits PDFs, recognizes text with OCR, and reads QR codes and barcodes.
  46. 175
    PDF Scanner - Documents Scan +F
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 47 ratings · score 38
    Scans, edits, stores, and shares documents as digital files.
  47. 176
    PDF Scanner Pro: Scan DocumentF
    Free · ★ 5.0 · 2 ratings · score 36
    Scans documents into PDFs, with OCR, saving and sharing options.

Questions people ask

What is the best alternative to ScanGuru: PDF Scanner App on iPhone?
CamScanner - PDF Scanner App, S tier, #1 in PDF scanners.
Is there a free alternative to ScanGuru: PDF Scanner App?
Yes: CamScanner - PDF Scanner App (S tier, #1) is free to download, with in-app purchases.
Does anything rank above ScanGuru: PDF Scanner App?
Yes. 7 apps rank above it in PDF scanners: CamScanner - PDF Scanner App (#1), Adobe Scan: PDF & Doc Scanner (#2), Scanner Pro - Scan to PDF (#3) and more.

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