About this app
Add-Me Scanner is a work in progress — a beta. It does the simple things well: photograph a page, flatten it, then merge, split, clean and export PDFs straight from your browser.
Scanning, page cleaning, PDF merging and splitting all run on your device. Your photos are never uploaded, and the finished file goes to your own download folder.
When you close the app, everything held in memory is wiped and that work is lost. Nothing is kept anywhere.
The good thing about that: nobody else can ever see your data.
With an account you can save documents inside the app and open them again on another device — scan on the phone, then file them from the computer.
Those documents are stored in the cloud, and anything stored in the cloud can in principle be hacked. That is the trade-off for having your files everywhere.
Beyond keeping the service running, nothing happens with your data: no analysis, no resale, no third parties.
What it costs
- Free: the whole on-device app — scanning, PDF merging, splitting and exporting — with no account at all.
- Cloud storage is for moving documents between devices, not long-term storage. Free accounts have 50 MB. Paid storage is coming later.
- OCR (searchable PDFs) moves into the signed-in area, and later becomes part of the paid plan.
The storage limit is active. Existing files are kept; when over the limit, free space before saving more. Administrator-approved exceptions apply.
Why free?
It is easy to build thanks to AI, and the running costs are low. On-device scanning needs neither AI nor storage, so it can genuinely be provided for free. Once storage is needed, it is a different game — and at some point I will have to charge for it.
About me
Built by Christian Bollensdorff. You can find me on LinkedIn.
Besides this scanner I run two other projects, each with a YouTube channel and its own app:
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