4.85★ from 1,889,181 ratings · version 7.25.5 · 28 of the last 60 written reviews are one or two stars
Excessive ads interrupting every action
13of the 28 read·46%
Ads appear constantly during normal use, making the app slow and nearly impossible to use without paid upgrade.
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“Spent more time closing ads then scanning documents — I used to use this app as my favorite scanning app to turn documents into PDFs and photos as well. However, as time has gone on, CamScanner has ruined the app by not letting you do a single thing or push a single button without accidentally clicking an ad and throwing another ad in your face as soon as you’ve closed the last one. It is super frustrating and I’m…” — ★☆☆☆☆“Ad machine — It’s become an insufferable ad campaign for tiktok. Forcing people to purchase by making the free version unworkable will just push people to another scan tool.” — ★☆☆☆☆“I hate this app — This app sucks it scans things upside down And there’s an ad about every 15 seconds” — ★☆☆☆☆
Paid subscription required for basic features
3of the 28 read·11%
Core functions like exporting to PDF or sending documents require a paid subscription despite the app being advertised as free.
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“Ladrones — Que app de m13rda tras de que te mete mil anuncios te quiere cobrar una mensualidad por enviar un documento como pdf. Si para eso descargas la aplicación. Mu3rt0s de hambre” — ★☆☆☆☆“It sucks. — It sucks for every little thing I need this app to do it asks for a subscription in order to complete said thing. I CANNOT do anything without an ad popping up every second I click on something.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Requires purchase to export to pdf — This app requires you to purchase a subscription before exporting to pdf. I generally don’t take time to review software products I don’t like, but this is frustrating enough to warrant it. This application is listed as a free pdf scanner on the App Store. It waits until you’ve finished scanning your documents to make you purchase a subscription to use. Listing this as a free pdf…” — ★☆☆☆☆
Confusing interface and poor navigation
3of the 28 read·11%
App has an unintuitive layout with cluttered options, making simple tasks like exporting documents difficult to accomplish.
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“Tough to navigate — Extremely unintuitive and irritating app. I’ve never had a more difficult time trying to do something as simple as exporting a document. And I’m not an inept boomer this app is just poorly set up” — ★☆☆☆☆“Too complicated & cluttered ui and options for quick actions — It's great camscanner can boil water and chew gum at the same time, but if I can't *quickly* open a screenshot after tapping the "extract Tt" icon and then *quickly* tap 1 button to extract text from said screenshot in a *quick* manner, then having a Swiss army knife of an app allowing me to call Mars while I'm splilonking towards the center of the earth…” — ★★☆☆☆“Too confusing, too many popups — I just want to put documents on my phone so I can send them to the dang daycare.” — ★☆☆☆☆
Quality declined after recent update
3of the 28 read·11%
App worked well previously but a recent update introduced excessive ads, cropped images, and unwanted features.
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“the ads are terrible — I used to really like this app and I used to use it a lot for submitting schoolwork. But now, the amount of popups are so unbearable I actually can’t justify it, even though I like all the filters it can use. Not to mention sometimes it would send things to my email HOURS later, which doesn’t quite work when I have deadlines. This would only happen with this app, so I know it wasn’t an email…” — ★★☆☆☆“New update SUCKS — This new update sucks!!! I have utilized this app for nearly 3 years, and just now you crop my images and are full of ads? I got sent to a pdf file converter that I do not need when I’m just trying to same it on my phone! I’m really really disappointed, and will have to move to a new app.” — ★★☆☆☆“Awesome app but so many adds — I live this app cause it’s so handy to scan anything But Awesome app but so many adds.” — ★☆☆☆☆
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 28 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected yesterday.
Germany
4.67★ from 86,755 ratings · version 7.25.5 · 26 of the last 50 written reviews are one or two stars
Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 26, and the threshold is twelve.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 26 most recent negative ones. Newest review 3 days ago (06.09.2026), last collected yesterday.
Britain
4.80★ from 120,095 ratings · version 7.25.5 · 17 of the last 50 written reviews are one or two stars
Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 17, and the threshold is twelve.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 17 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected yesterday.
France
4.74★ from 178,700 ratings · version 7.25.5
We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.