PrivateScanfor iPhone, iPad and Mac

Every scan stays on your device.

Point the camera at a page and get a clean, searchable PDF. Finding the edges, flattening the light, reading the text and naming the file all happen on the device in your hand. No account, no cloud processing, no subscription.

Download on the App StoreFree, $9.99 unlocks premium Read the privacy policy

A scanned invoice open in PrivateScan on an iPhone, straightened and cleaned, with page and export controls below it.

Where a scan goes

Paper goes in and a document comes out. The only paths off the device are the ones you start yourself: a share, an export, the iCloud sync you switched on, the device backup you keep, text you copy, or a link, address, phone number or date found in a scan that you tap open. There is no server in this circuit: no stage sends a page, its text or its name anywhere. Separately, from version 1.14 on, the app sends anonymous usage and crash reports, which never carry a page, its text or its name, and you can turn them off in Settings > Privacy. Version 1.13 and earlier send none.

The path a scan takes in PrivateScan A page enters the device. Inside the device it passes edge detection, light flattening, text recognition, naming and export. One trace leaves the device toward Files, Share and the user's own iCloud. A trace toward servers ends at an open pad with no connection: no stage sends the scan to a server. paper edges light text name export Files, Share, your own iCloud your iPhone, iPad or Mac servers no connection The path a scan takes in PrivateScan A page enters the device. Inside the device it passes edge detection, light flattening, text recognition, naming and export. One trace leaves the device toward Files, Share and the user's own iCloud. A trace toward servers ends at an open pad with no connection: no stage sends the scan to a server. paper edges light text name export Files, Share, your own iCloud your iPhone, iPad or Mac servers no connection
Every stage runs on the device. Text recognition uses Apple's frameworks. Naming uses a small model that also runs on the device; with premium, an iPhone or iPad that can run it and has at least 4 GB free fetches it on its own from Hugging Face (an Apple silicon Mac with at least 16 GB of memory, from version 1.16, only when you ask in Settings), and deleting it in Settings stops that. Until the model is on the device, and on devices that cannot run it, Apple's text recognition names the scans. Apart from your documents, version 1.14 and later send anonymous usage and crash reports unless you turn them off; they never carry a page, its text or its name. The privacy policy has the details.

What it does

Scans anything
Edges found, page straightened, shadows and uneven light flattened, and a warning when a page looks blurry so you retake it before you walk away. Multiple pages into one document, open books split into facing pages, whiteboards without glare, ID cards and passports composed onto a single page, photos and PDFs imported. Folders and color labels keep it all in order.
Finds any document
Every scan is read on the device, even offline, so search works for everyone: type a word from a receipt or a contract and the scan it lives in comes up. Premium adds the extracted text itself, to read, copy and export (and translate, on iPhone and iPad), plus smart naming, which titles each scan for you so receipts stop being called Scan 47: once downloaded, a small model that runs on the device names receipts and invoices on an iPhone or iPad with enough memory or an Apple silicon Mac with at least 16 GB of memory, and Apple's text recognition names everything else.
Exports any way you work
PDF, JPG, PNG, Word, Excel, TXT and RTF, with file size presets, your own watermark and password protected PDFs. Word and Excel files are created entirely on your device. Excel export needs iOS 26 or macOS 26.
Signs and edits
Draw a signature once and place it on any page. Reorder, split and combine documents. Rescue bad lighting with the enhance, black and white, grayscale and whiteboard filters.
Locks down
Turn on the app lock and PrivateScan asks for Face ID, Touch ID, your device passcode or, on a Mac, your login password when it opens (the device needs a passcode or password set; reopening within a few seconds of unlocking does not ask again). On iPhone and iPad, files stay encrypted while the device is locked; on a Mac, turn on FileVault in System Settings to protect the files at rest. A privacy shield hides your documents in the app switcher.
Syncs through your iCloud, if you want
Sync is off by default. Turn it on and your documents move through your own private iCloud, protected by your Apple Account. Freedom Terminal runs no servers and could not read them if it wanted to.

One price, forever

Scanning is free. A single $9.99 purchase unlocks premium: the extracted text of every scan, smart naming, Word and Excel export, password protected PDFs, exports without watermarks, and no limits on pages or exports. No subscription. Buy it once, own it on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and share it with your family through Family Sharing.

Download on the App StoreFree, $9.99 unlocks premium

Support

A question, a bug, or a page that did not scan the way it should: write to support@freedom-terminal.com and a person answers. The privacy policy says in plain words what the app does with your documents, which is nothing beyond your device unless you send them, and exactly what its anonymous usage and crash reports carry.