Launched this week
Honest Scanner
iOS doc scanner. No account, no sub, no watermark.
2 followers
iOS doc scanner. No account, no sub, no watermark.
2 followers
The scanner I wanted to exist. On-device OCR, clean PDF export, no account, no subscription, no watermark on any free export. One-time $29.99 unlocks OCR, sign, annotate, password, merge, split. The rest is free forever.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 — Bipin here.
I built Honest Scanner because every iOS scanner I tried either stamped
"Scanned with X" on free exports or hid itself behind a $5/week
subscription that's impossible to cancel in-app. Both felt disrespectful
for a tool as basic as "turn paper into PDF."
So I built the opposite:
• No account. No email. No signup flow. Install and start scanning.
• No telemetry SDK. The only network call in the entire app is to
RevenueCat when you tap Restore Purchase. That's it.
• No weekly trial. The camera and clean PDF export are free forever —
no watermark, no page cap, no "upgrade to remove ads."
• No subscription, ever. If you want OCR, sign & flatten, password
protect, annotate, merge, or split, that's a single $29.99 one-time
unlock. Pay once, done.
Built solo over the past few months on Expo + React Native 0.86, using
Apple's VisionKit for the capture UI and on-device Vision OCR. 1.0.3
just shipped with AirPrint, local reminders (scheduled with
expo-notifications, no server), and native Arabic/Cyrillic/Greek support
in the searchable PDF text layer via bundled Noto Sans + Noto Naskh
Arabic — a gap most scanners silently ship with because Helvetica's
WinAnsi encoding can't represent those scripts.
The whole thing is ~37MB and runs fully offline. Your scans never leave
your device.
Happy to dig into:
• The on-device OCR pipeline and why I kept the invisible text layer
at opacity 0.01 instead of true PDF text rendering mode 3 (pdf-lib
limitation, interesting workaround)
• The sign-and-flatten flow — surprisingly fiddly in pdf-lib
• Why I keep refusing to add a weekly subscription even though it would
4x revenue (spoiler: because this app only exists as a protest
against that pattern)
• How the one-time-price economics actually work for an indie iOS app
in 2026
If you scan documents regularly, I'd love your honest feedback — what's
missing, what feels off, what you'd pay more (or less) to have.
Thanks for taking a look 🙏
@RevenueCat @Expo @React