A document scanner that works for you, not a subscription.

OwnScan turns paper into clean, searchable PDFs, and everything happens on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no cloud, no ads, no tracking.

Platforms: iPhone and iPad
Free to try: 5 documents + 5 IDs free, every feature
To keep it: US$9.99 · one payment
Data collected: None

Fair pricing

// screenshots

OwnScan turns paper into clean, searchable PDFs, and everything happens on your iPhone. There's no account to create, no cloud to upload to, no ads and no tracking. Try it free with 5 documents, then unlock everything with a single purchase that's yours forever.

// what it does

SCAN BEAUTIFULLY

Apple's document camera finds the page edges and captures automatically, many pages at a time
Import photos, screenshots and PDFs. Imported photos are straightened automatically
Auto clean-up removes shadows and whitens the paper, or choose Grayscale or B&W
Crop, rotate, reorder pages and add more at any time

FIND ANYTHING

Text recognition runs on your device and works offline
Search every word in every document
Documents name themselves from their text ("Invoice 2931 Harbor Hardware")
Copy or share the text from any page

SHARE THE WAY YOU WANT

One tap to share to WhatsApp, Telegram, Mail, Gmail, AirDrop or Files
PDF, JPG, Text, Markdown, Word (.docx) and Excel (.xlsx)
Tables on the page become real Word tables and Excel sheets
Searchable PDFs you can select and search in any PDF app
Password-protected PDFs, with optional print and copy limits
Letter, A4 or fit-to-scan, in three quality levels
Exports never contain your location or camera details

SIGN AND MARK UP

Draw your signature once and reuse it on any document
Add text, highlight and draw with your finger or Apple Pencil
Watermarks like COPY or CONFIDENTIAL, with your own opacity and angle

IDS AND PASSPORTS

Both sides of an ID card or driver's license on one page, at real size
Passport mode reads the code at the bottom of the photo page and fills in the details for you
Read and kept on your iPhone only

QR CODES AND BARCODES, SAFELY

Scan any common code, or read one from a photo or screenshot
Scam-link warnings: OwnScan flags unencrypted links, look-alike domains, raw IP addresses and link shorteners before you open them
Create QR codes for links, Wi-Fi, contacts, email, phone and text

// specs

Platforms: iPhone and iPad
Processing: Text recognition on your device
Input: Camera, photos, screenshots and PDFs
Output: Searchable PDF, JPEG, plain text
Network: Not needed: works offline
Account: None, not even optional
Data collected: None
Price model: 5 documents + 5 IDs free, every feature, then buy once
OS updates: Free compatibility updates

your device

app
on-device processing
your files

no connection

internet

our server doesn't exist
cloud sync no connection
ads no connection
analytics no connection

How every Cleanware app is built: everything happens on your device. There's no server for your data to go to.

Fair pricing

US$9.99One payment

one-time purchase, after 5 free documents and 5 free IDs

Free: every feature, for your first 5 documents and 5 IDs
One purchase of US$9.99: unlimited documents and IDs, forever, with future updates included
Family Sharing supported. Restore anytime

Coming to the App Store first. This page will link to it at launch.

Data Not Collected