Genius Scan vs vFlat Scan

Genius Scan turns a phone into a document scanner, with access also offered through a web app. Its free Basic plan is fully functional, supports high-resolution scanning, and has no scan or document-count limit. Users can create multipage PDFs, archive documents, organize them with tags, and search for them. Ultra adds on-device OCR, which places searchable and indexable text in PDFs. Documents are processed and stored on the phone unless explicitly exported, and access can be protected with Face ID, Touch ID, or a PIN. Export options include Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, Evernote, WebDAV, FTP, and others. Genius Cloud offers unlimited cloud storage, backup, syncing, storage savings, and web access. Automatic export can run in the background and route documents according to rules. Ultra costs $39.99 a year. Team features include centralized license management and consolidated annual billing; a BAA is available with Genius Scan Team for organizations needing HIPAA-aligned handling. The maker, The Grizzly Labs, is based in Paris, France.

vFlat Scan is a phone-based scanner for digitizing books and documents. It detects pages, crops edges and corrects perspective, and can flatten the curve of an open book, remove fingers from scans and split a two-page spread into ordered pages. Built-in OCR recognizes more than 100 languages, making text searchable, selectable and copyable. Scans can be exported as PDF, JPG or plain text, shared to other apps or backed up to cloud storage of the user's choice. The app is available on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. Capture, edge detection, page flattening and finger removal run on the phone. Its free plan costs nothing and includes 10 pages per month each for PDF export and OCR, plus five monthly uses each of two-page mode and auto-detect. Premium prices are shown in the app; it offers weekly, monthly and annual billing, unlimited PDF export and selected scan modes, OCR up to 3,000 pages per month, and additional tools and export formats.