CamScanner alternative
A CamScanner alternative with no watermark and no subscription
Scan pages with your phone's camera and save them as a clean, black-and-white PDF. No ads, no account and no uploading your documents to the cloud.
Try the scanner Free, no account, and your files are never uploaded.
How to get started
- Open inkognitopdf.com/app in your phone's browser. Nothing to download from the store.
- Tap “Scan” and take the photos: the app crops and straightens each page.
- Put the pages in order, choose Photocopy for black and white and save the PDF.
- If you use it often, install it from the browser menu with “Add to Home screen”.
Why do it with InkognitoPDF
No watermark, no payments
Everything is free, with no premium version. PDFs come out clean, with no logos added.
Your papers stay off the cloud
Photos are processed on your phone. There is no account or server that keeps your ID documents, invoices or contracts.
Open source
The code is published under the Apache-2.0 license: anyone can check what it does with your files.
Frequently asked questions
Why look for a CamScanner alternative?
Many scanning apps add a watermark to the free version, ask for a subscription or keep your documents in their cloud. InkognitoPDF does none of those three things.
Do I have to install anything?
No. It works in your phone's browser. If you like, add it to your home screen and open it like an app, offline too.
Does it recognize text, like CamScanner?
Yes. OCR recognizes English and Spanish text on your phone, and the PDF gets text you can search and copy.
Other things you can do
- Sign a PDF Draw your signature or sign with a digital certificate.
- Scan a document Photos of paper to a clean black-and-white PDF.
- Edit the text of a PDF Change the text and keep its font, size and color.
- Merge PDF Combine several PDFs and put the pages in order.
- Compress a PDF Make it small enough for email or chat.
- Fill out a form Complete fields, checkboxes and lists, and sign.
- Redact personal data Really remove ID numbers, accounts and emails.
- Scanned PDF to text (OCR) Recognize the text so you can search and copy it.
- Scan both sides of an ID card Front and back on one A4 page, at real size.
- iLovePDF alternative The everyday PDF tasks, without uploading files.