PrivateScan

For iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Scan documents.
Keep them yours.

PrivateScan turns paper into clean, searchable documents entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded, ever.

Download on the App Store Download on the Mac App Store

Free to scan. One $9.99 purchase unlocks everything, forever. No subscription.

No servers No accounts No analytics No tracking App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected
PrivateScan Spec sheet
Processing
100% on your device
Account required
None
Tracking and analytics
None
Text recognition
Built in, works offline
AI naming
On device. It reads the paper and names the file
iCloud sync
Optional, off by default, your own private iCloud
Platforms
iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Family Sharing included
Price
Free to scan. One $9.99 purchase unlocks premium, forever

AI naming

It reads the paper and names the file.

Scan a receipt and it files itself as a receipt with the store's name. A lease becomes the lease for its address. The intelligence that does this runs on your device, so the paper it reads stays with you.

PrivateScan documents list with automatically named scans

Export

Seven formats, built where you stand.

PDF, JPG, PNG, Word, Excel, TXT, and RTF, with file size presets, your own watermark, and password protected PDFs. Word and Excel files are assembled entirely on your device. Other scanner apps build them on their servers. PrivateScan never does.

Excel export requires iOS 26 or macOS 26.

Export sheet with PDF, JPG, PNG, TXT, RTF, DOCX, and XLSX formats, file size presets and password protection

Everywhere

One purchase. Every screen.

PrivateScan is native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Buy premium once and it unlocks on all of them, and Family Sharing covers your whole family at no extra cost.

PrivateScan running as a native Mac app

Also in the box

For Microsoft Lens users

Lens retired. Your scanning habit does not have to.

Microsoft retired Lens in March 2026 and pointed everyone at cloud apps. If you liked Lens because it was fast, simple, and local, PrivateScan is the same idea taken further: scan, name, and export on your device, with no account of any kind.

Excel export requires iOS 26 or macOS 26.

Get PrivateScan on the App Store

The subscription math

Scanner apps went subscription.
PrivateScan went the other way.

After 1 yearAfter 3 yearsAfter 5 years
Typical scanner subscription$70$210$350
PrivateScan premium$9.99$9.99$9.99

Typical pricing of the big scanner subscriptions as of July 2026. PrivateScan premium is a single purchase.

Privacy

The privacy policy fits on one page.
It says nothing leaves.

There is nothing to disclose because nothing is collected. No document, no text, no usage data ever reaches us. A scan leaves your device only when you share it yourself, or when you turn on the optional iCloud sync, which stores documents in your own private iCloud, not with us.

Read the privacy policy

Scan something today.

Download on the App Store Download on the Mac App Store

Free to download. $9.99 once if you want everything.