Reviews for TurboScan™: PDF scanner

Update: I just received a pdf scan from a competitor "genus" scanner app. This is still better. You can also take photos of documents people send you and convert to PDF happy going on 3 years. This is a high quality and fast smartphone scanner. Has a great feature for eliminating distortion. 1 and 1/2 year later stll a great app. its the fastest way to scan 1 page douments pictures or receipts. Probably up to 3 pages would be faster than plugging in the scanner.

Great for quickly scanning documents and receipts. My only complaint is the limited number of options for page size selection for creating PDFs. I was scanning some notecards and would have liked the option to save a 3x5 or 4x6 size. I suggest adding a custom entry option for these situations.

I tried scanning the same one page two different times. First time ended up with a circular spatter of blacklight fluoresce around the outer third of the page (which was odd as just regular LED lights in ceiling). Second attempt produced a crisper scan than another app I tried and was simple to email to myself. Unfortunately you cannot name the document when scanning it (other than appending date/time). This is a requirement for me so will uninstall.

Hanging onto app, to practice with it. Love how quickly and easily it saves my work to Dropbox. (Made a folder for it, and files auto-save there.) I have a new LG V30 phone. Snapshops I've taken of docs to PDF, isn't perfect (yet). MY FAULT, LIKELY, not taking snaps the best distance away from source. ***When I snapped (using the 3-pic option) my brief handwritten grocery list, the result wasn't crisp. Maybe app uses only low dpi, causing a slight blur. Worth more testing, to find out!😊

This app worked great until about two months ago or so. I can scan things just fine, but when I click the 'Send to PDF' option, it creates an email, and appears to show the attachment with the email, but when I click the 'Send' button on the email, it sends without the attachment. This is most disappointing... it's an app that I had come to rely on for a lot of record-keeping, and may now have to delete from my phone if it isn't promptly resolved.

Takes several tries and at least 10 minutes to receive the scanned document after emailing it. Not happy about paying for something that hardly works. UPDATED 06/25/19: I have figured this app out. I only take and send 1 page at a time, much faster this way. Also, after emailing it once, I wait about 30 seconds, then go to email it once more. Seconds after you pretend to email a 2nd time, it will show up in your inbox. You can send the 2nd email but you will only receive 1.

Useful app. It's been very helpful for scanning a number of documents. It does a reasonably good job of determining page boundaries and even when it fails (or you don't want a full page), it is easy to adjust the boundaries to what you do want. I haven't had issues with moving the documents off of my phone either. Well worth the low price to upgrade.

Incredible, well worth the price of the full version, I use it at least once a week. super helpful for artists who prefer to sketch/draw by hand, much easier to use this scanner than to upload to photoshop and manipulate. Also super helpful for students who need to scan textbooks, packets, or other assignments. The ability to email, convert to jpg, or convert to pdf straight from the app is a life saver. Would like to see png/transparency options included in future updates. Highly recommend!

Easy to learn, easy to use! This is the scan app I've been hoping for. No ongoing monthly payments - a simple $5 for unlimited scans. The scanned files on my phone are easy to find and easy to move and manipulate in my laptop. I learned not to manipulate them on my phone (changing files names, for example) because the changes are held in a properties file for each document, and therefore not "sticky" when I move the files.

I've been using this app for years. In my opinion this is the best app for scanning documents and exporting them in various files formats. I have used this on both IOS and Android and my opinion stays the same. For me, scanning documents every day and exporting them as .PDF files is a laborious process. Using turboscan has mitigated that and made this allot more easier. The UI is very easy to navigate. I have not run into any bugs for the past 7 or 8 years of me using this.

Amazing app. I had no idea how much I needed this until I had it. Helps me keep organized and feel confident and capable. I always know where important forms and documents are and I can easily send in forms. So convenient, simple, and only $3 for full lifetime usage if you use it a few times and like it. Seriously, give it a shot.

I have the app on my iphone and use it CONSTANTLY, I worship this app for my job... I recently got a second phone (Samsung) for my Alaska jobs and downloaded the free version. It looked different at first but I figured it's the phone, so I thought why not get the paid version after deleting the free one. Paid $4.99 to get the exact same version as free, I can't tell the difference... the 5 bucks isn't the big deal, I want this to work and look exactly like the one on my iphone...grrr

Does exactly what I need and nothing more. I use it to catalogue important documents pertaining to my business: expense receipts, titles, insurance cards, etc. I hang on the the hard copies of all official documents, but I don't have a shifting mass of wadded up receipts on the floor of my work van anymore, and that alone is enough for 5 stars. Numerous cloud sharing options and just the right amount of editing tools to make this app perfect. Being super affordable helps, too.

I wish I could give it a zero stars. they have made it absolutely useless now! you can't even email it to yourself,! what the hell? everything worked fine before and now I can't get anything to work. they just made it way more complicated then it used to be or needs to be by adding a whole bunch of QR codes and scanning when all I wanted to do was be able to email it to myself. very disappointed! very.

You do have to buy the paid version, but I would buy it again in a heartbeat. You end up having a well featured scanner in your pocket. It makes cropping and dealing with angled views effortless. My favorite use was while buying a car where they have you sign 50 pages of stuff and want to give you the barely legible copy. I just laid the pages out on the desk and 'scanned the originals before passing them back across the desk.

Good (85/100), could be great with some tweaks. Overall, I use TurboScan often. So much so, I have the paid version. Two things that do frustrate me. 1) it doesn't always give you the option to crop. Sometimes it does. Other times it does auto crop. It should give you the option auto/manual. 2) Emailing to myself. Sometimes it emails instantly. Other times, like today, I am waiting still and its been over an hour. This should be pretty fast under any condition with LTE or WiFi.

Updating to emphasize my review of a year ago. I've been using this app to scan documents for years, and it's awesome. The 3x feature allows you to get really accurate scans, or you can opt to go more quickly. The process for touching up the scans is also great and helps when scanning documents that are oddly shaped, have curled edges, and so forth, and allows you to make corrections when you are not able to hold your camera perfectly parallel to the surface being scanned.

This app saved me tons of time when I had to scan a bunch of things for a slideshow. Made it very easy to go quickly from a photo on my phone to a cleanly-cropped jpeg on my desktop hard drive with just a few taps. And the quality was excellent. I love how the cropping tool gives you a zoomed view so you can be precise without your thumbs getting in the way. Very smartly designed app.

9/15/2025. I'm still loving this app. I've used it for years, and I am very happy with it. It is so convenient, and it keeps all of my scanned documents for future reference if ever needed later. I also always email the .pdf documents to myself and others as needed, straight from the Turbo Scan app. Works great. Very useful. Update 05/08/2024: still wonderful app. I use it quite often for many tasks. It comes in handy for many different situations. Excellent functionality!

Integration with my device's camera has recently stopped working. The page goes out of focus as soon as I hit the shutter button when I try to take a single shot. The three shot mode gets stuck on image 2 or 3 and won't complete taking the images, requiring me to close the app out completely. Since I paid for this app it is disappointing to see that it hasn't been updated in 7 months, which probably contributes to the problem.