MyHeritage Mobile App vs NAPS2
MyHeritage Mobile App
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NAPS2
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| Figure | MyHeritage Mobile App | NAPS2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Photo Scanning Software | 7.8 (#17) | 8.6 (#5) |
| Platforms | The app is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android devices; users without Apple or Android devices can use MyHeritage on the web. | The latest NAPS2 release is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux; the current Mac version requires macOS 12 or later and current Windows versions support Windows 10 and 11. |
| Purpose | The app lets users discover family history, share family moments, and stay in touch. | NAPS2 is free, open source scanning software for scanning documents and saving them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG. |
| Support | MyHeritage offers a Help Center, self-service tools, contact form and email support, and may offer scheduled outbound phone calls for complex cases. | Users can file a support ticket and attach NAPS2 error logs to help diagnose a problem or report a bug. |
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In their own words
MyHeritage Mobile App
MyHeritage Mobile App helps people build family trees, investigate family history and share family photos and discoveries with relatives. Users can add people to a tree and edit family members’ details from the app. It also provides mobile access to MyHeritage’s search engine and billions of records, including family trees, vital records, immigration and military records, censuses and newspapers. Some records are free to view; others require a MyHeritage data subscription. Users can upload photos from their devices to a family site, review Smart Matches and Record Matches, and add finds from Instant Discoveries. Basic family sites are free, with a limit of 250 people across the site’s trees and 500 MB of storage. Guests are automatically prevented from seeing sensitive details about living family members, though owners can adjust privacy settings. The app is available on Android, iOS and web. The newest version requires Android 4.1 or later or iOS 9.0 or later, plus a touch screen and high-definition display.
NAPS2
NAPS2 is free, open-source software for scanning documents and saving them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and supports WIA and TWAIN drivers with flatbed or automatic document feeder scanners, including duplex scanning. Users can reorder, interleave, rotate, crop, deskew, and adjust scanned pages’ brightness and contrast. OCR makes scans searchable, supports more than 100 languages, and can add text recognition to imported PDFs. NAPS2 can share scanners across a local network using ESCL, including with compatible Android and iPhone apps, but it must remain running on the server for sharing to work. It can send email through Gmail and Outlook, with the email address and secure sending token kept on the user’s computer and sent only to the relevant provider. Optional developer tools include a command-line interface for automation and a .NET scanning library. The free plan has no ads or restrictions, though OCR results cannot be saved directly to a text file.