Scan and read text, offline
The camera finds the page edges and flattens the shot. Text is read on your phone — Latin scripts, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and more — so the page never leaves the device.
Android app · free to start
Point your phone at paper. Get back text you can edit.
Scanly scans documents, reads the text right on your phone, and saves it as a PDF, Word file or plain text. For the hard pages — handwriting, crumpled receipts, tables — AI re-types them with the layout intact. It also turns recordings into transcripts, and edits and signs PDFs.
- Offline OCR is free and unlimited
- No account needed to scan
- Android 7.0 and newer
Café Luna
12 Sep 2026, 14:32 · table 4
| Item | Qty | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Espresso | 2 | 7.00 |
| Croissant | 1 | 3.20 |
| Orange juice | 1 | 4.50 |
| Tip (handwritten) | 2.00 | |
| Total | 16.70 |
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What it does
One app for the paper, the PDFs and the recordings.
Everything that can run on your phone does, for free. The cloud AI is there for the pages and recordings that need it.
Audio to text
Record a meeting or upload a voice note and get a transcript with timestamps and speakers you can rename, in 25 languages. Up to 3 hours a recording on Pro, 6 hours on Max.
AI Scan for the hard pages
Handwriting, receipts and multi-column layouts come back re-typed, with headings and tables kept. One credit a page.
Edit and sign PDFs
Annotate, merge, crop and reorder any PDF. On Pro: change the text, sign, and verify signatures.
Design a PDF
Describe an invoice, a quote or a letter — or hand it a scan — and get a laid-out PDF back. Say what to change and it redraws.
Also in the app: translation into 18 languages, data extraction from receipts, invoices and business cards, drafting documents, compressing and password-protecting PDFs, and your own OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic or Gemini endpoint (Pro). Exports go to PDF, Word, Markdown or text.
Pricing
Free for everything on your phone. Pay only for the AI.
Monthly plans, no contract. Prices in US dollars; Paddle shows your local tax at checkout.
Everything that runs on your phone
Free
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- Unlimited scanning and offline OCR
- Unlimited barcode and QR scanning
- Annotate, merge and organise PDFs
- 20 AI credits a month, plus 2 per rewarded ad
- Audio to text, up to 10 minutes a recording
- AI-designed PDFs from your credits
- Export to PDF, Word, Markdown and text
For regular paperwork and meetings
Scanly Pro
$6.99a month
- Everything in Free, with no ads
- 700 AI credits a month, 300 pages per document
- Audio to text — up to 3 hours a recording
- Design PDFs from a scan or a description
- Sign PDFs and verify existing signatures
- Edit text, compress and password-protect
- Translate, extract data, draft documents
For big documents and long recordings
Scanly Max
$14.99a month
- Everything in Pro
- 1,500 AI credits a month
- 1,000 pages in a single document
- Audio to text — up to 6 hours a recording
- Uploads up to 50 MB, against Pro’s 30 MB
- 1,000 AI credits a day, against Pro’s 350
One AI credit is one AI-scanned page, or about 3 minutes of audio; other AI tools draw from the same balance. One key covers three devices. Cancel anytime.
Compare every feature
| Feature | Free | Pro | Max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scanning and offline OCR | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Barcode and QR scanning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Annotate, merge, reorder PDFs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export to PDF, Word, Markdown, text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI credits a month | 20 +2 per rewarded ad | 700 | 1,500 |
| Pages per document | 3 | 300 | 1,000 |
| Largest upload | 5 MB | 30 MB | 50 MB |
| Audio to text, per recording | 10 min | 3 hours | 6 hours |
| Design a PDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sign and verify signatures | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit text, compress, encrypt | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Translation, data extraction, drafting | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own AI endpoint | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ads | Optional rewarded ads | None | None |
Before you pay
What you should know about us.
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Your files stay yours
Scanning, OCR and PDF editing never leave your phone. AI features pass only what you pick to Mistral, Google Gemini or xAI and send the result back. We don’t keep your uploads, don’t sell data and have no trackers. Privacy policy
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Paddle handles the payment
Checkout, tax and receipts come from Paddle, our merchant of record. We never see your card details.
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Cancel anytime, 14-day refunds
Cancel from Paddle’s portal whenever you like. Not happy? Write within 14 days of a charge. Refund policy
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The developer answers you
Scanly is built by one independent developer in Morocco, not a company. Email [email protected] or message @ScanlyOCR.
Start with the free version.
Scanning and offline OCR never cost anything. Upgrade only if you want the AI.