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Pic Scanner Gold
What Pic Scanner Gold is
Pic Scanner Gold is an iOS app that scans printed photos and album pages with an iPhone or iPad camera. It captures at the camera’s highest resolution, automatically crops, deskews, and enhances scans, then saves JPG files at 300 PPI. A 19-tool editor adjusts lighting, contrast, color, brightness, rotation, sharpness, blemishes, and filters. Users can add dates, locations, and descriptions, while scans receive creation-date and caption information in EXIF metadata. Albums support drag-and-drop rearrangement, slideshows, and placing one photo in multiple albums without extra device space. Pictures from Apple Photos can be imported for editing, captions, and album inclusion. Extras include shareable mini-albums, personalized cards, retro slideshows, and photo craft tutorials. The maker says photos stay on the device and processing happens there. Scans are automatically backed up to iCloud for users with an iCloud account, or can be backed up to Dropbox, Google Drive, or another cloud service. Pic Scanner Gold costs $9.99, paid once for lifetime use, with no subscriptions, in-app purchases, or cloud fees.
Who it suits
Pic Scanner Gold suits iPhone and iPad users digitizing printed photos or album pages. It also fits people who want on-device processing, album organization, and JPG scans with metadata.
What it does well
- Scans at camera resolution and saves 300 PPI JPGs
- Automatic cropping, deskewing, and enhancement
- Nineteen photo-editing tools
- Photos can belong to multiple albums without extra space
- No subscriptions, in-app purchases, or cloud fees
What to know first
- iOS only
- No OCR support
- Lifetime license is paid
- Backup options depend on cloud accounts or services
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pic Scanner Gold | One-time price for lifetime use · No subscriptions · no in-app purchases · no cloud fees | $9.99, paid once |
As picscannergold.com lists them, read 4 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Pic Scanner Gold combines camera scanning, editing, metadata, and album tools in a one-time iOS purchase. It does not provide OCR, so it is focused on image scans rather than text recognition.
Facts from Pic Scanner Gold's own pages
- Apple Photos
- Users can import pictures from Apple Photos for editing, captioning and inclusion alongside scanned photos. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Backups
- The maker says scans are automatically backed up to iCloud when the user has an iCloud account, and can also be backed up to Dropbox, Google Drive or another cloud service. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- License
- The terms say the app is distributed under Apple’s standard software license and licensed for use on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch owned or controlled by the user. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Metadata
- Users can add dates, locations and descriptions, and the app adds the creation date and caption description to scans’ EXIF metadata. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Organization
- Users can create albums, rearrange photos by drag and drop, add photos to multiple albums without using extra device space, and view slideshows. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Photo editing
- Its photo editor has 19 tools for adjusting lighting, contrast, color and brightness, rotating, sharpening, removing blemishes, and applying filters. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says photos stay on the device, are not uploaded to its server, and processing is done on-device. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Pic Scanner Gold scans photos and album pages using an iPhone or iPad camera. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Scanning
- The app scans at the camera’s highest resolution, automatically crops and enhances images, and saves scans at 300 PPI. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Sharing and extras
- Included extras include shareable mini-albums, personalized cards, retro slideshows and photo craft tutorials. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker lists [email protected] as its contact email. · picscannergold.com, 4 Oct 2026
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