SwiftScan

What it does

A phone-first scanner for documents, receipts, business cards, whiteboards and QR or barcodes, with automatic capture, perspective correction and PDF or JPEG output. It extracts text with OCR for searching and copying, and lets you annotate, sign, password-protect, reorder pages and send faxes. Documents can auto-upload to iCloud, Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and other services.

Best for: People who want a fast everyday phone scanner that also handles OCR, light editing, signing and fax without leaving the app.

Worth knowing: Its own feature page claims you can redact text but does not say whether the content is removed from the file or only covered, so it cannot be relied on as secure redaction. Premium is now sold through a multi-app bundle, and the newer AI summarise and translate tools are not described as on-device, and where they run has not been confirmed: advertising a summarising or translating feature does not establish that it processes in the cloud, and the vendor publishes no feature-specific statement either way.

Details, and where each comes from

Vendor statements, our own reading of their pages, and the things nobody has established yet, each answered separately. Where we have not confirmed something it says so rather than guessing, and a row nobody has established is greyed out.

Versions covered

iOS · Android

Website

swiftscan.app

Requires an account

Not verified

Free tier

Yes

Watermark on the free tier

Not verified

Maximum file size

Not verified

Batch processing

Yes

Data residency

United States

Open source

No

Self-hostable

No

Licence

proprietary

Redaction

Not determined

Programmatic access

None

Last availability check

Responded in 152 ms 16 October 2026

Checked automatically by our own runner, not reported by the vendor. 100% of our last 30 checks got a response.

What the vendor says

Claims are labelled rather than repeated as fact. Where we have checked something ourselves, it says so and shows when. Checked means we read the vendor's own page and it says what we recorded — not that we tested the behaviour, unless the note says we did.

• “No data in your documents will ever be sent to us or a 3rd party. Everything including the text recognition will be done directly on the device. We value privacy!”

  Checked by us — the source says this Read 22 September 2026

  Confirmed verbatim: "No data in your documents will ever be sent to us or a 3rd party. Everything including the text recognition will be done directly on the device. We value privacy!" It is the strongest privacy statement recorded anywhere in this tier — an unconditional "ever" rather than a retention window or a residency region — and it is also the one this index is least equipped to check, because SwiftScan is an iOS and Android application with no browser surface for our locality instrument to drive. That limit should be stated rather than glossed: the claim is recorded as the vendor's wording and not as an observation, and no instrument we have could make it one. One internal consistency worth noting, since this index records both: SwiftScan's features page, verified earlier in this campaign, describes redaction as a way to "hide" confidential data rather than remove it. The two statements are about different things — where text recognition happens, and what a redaction mark does — and both are the vendor's own.

  Standing: Re-read and matched byte for byte

  Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked

  Read

  https://swiftscan.app/

  From

  the text a browser renders

  SHA-256

  7e8b1efc347f9b34568f84c6b30f565d82a2be8772f0bc1dffcdc411dfa260a6

  How we checked: Re-verified verbatim on 2026-09-22: https://swiftscan.app/ re-rendered in headless Chrome with scripts/render-page.mjs and the claim's wording found in the rendered text. Originally verified on 2026-09-21. sourceHash is the SHA-256 of the re-rendered text, held as rv-swiftscan-app-21038292.txt.

  What this hash proves, and what it does not

• “Add text to your document or safely redact existing text to hide confidential data”

  Checked by us — the source says this Read 22 September 2026

  Confirmed verbatim. Under a feature heading "Add or Redact Text" the page says: "Add text to your document or safely redact existing text to hide confidential data" — the claim unaltered. The important word is the vendor's own, and it is HIDE. They do not claim removal anywhere on the page, which is consistent with this index classifying the tool as covers_content, and it means a reader is not being misled by them. Two limits: SwiftScan is an iOS and Android application with no browser surface, so nothing here can be tested on our instrument, and the feature sits in a list alongside draw, highlight and annotate, which is the company it keeps — markup on a scan rather than a document-sanitising tool. Recorded as confirmed that the page says what we recorded, not as a test of the behaviour.

  Standing: Re-read and matched byte for byte

  Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked

  Read

  https://swiftscan.app/features

  From

  the raw HTTP response

  SHA-256

  63277dfdc52912116fcac8b306bdb2ac47ece5f65b150e35f93a2775b8188c9d

  How we checked: Re-verified verbatim on 2026-09-22: https://swiftscan.app/features.html re-rendered in headless Chrome with scripts/render-page.mjs and the claim's wording found in the rendered text. Originally verified on 2026-09-21. sourceHash is the SHA-256 of the re-rendered text, held as rv-swiftscan-app-features-html-15f0206b.txt.

  What this hash proves, and what it does not

Each claim is quoted from the vendor's own pages. This section describes what we have and have not checked — it is not a judgement about anyone.