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Clearcan
Free document scanner. No ads, no subscriptions, no cloud.
Clearcan is a document scanner built on a simple idea: scanning should take seconds, not a subscription. Scan with automatic edge detection, search documents by their content (on-device text recognition in English, Russian, Romanian), copy text from any page, and export clean PDFs — no watermarks, no limits. Everything runs on your iPhone. No ads, no accounts, no analytics, no cloud. Built by an indie developer tired of scanner apps stuffed with paywalls.
Hi! I'm Ion, the developer. I built Clearcan because every scanner app I tried interrupted a 10-second task with ads or a paywall.
The recent update added text recognition that runs fully on device (Apple's Vision framework) — so you can search scans by their content and copy text from them, and your documents still never leave your phone.
It's free, and staying free. Happy to answer anything!
the "everything stays on your phone" pitch is great until you factor in what happens when the phone dies or gets replaced. no cloud is a real privacy win but it also means no cloud backup by default, is there any local export/backup path (iCloud folder, encrypted file, anything) so a lost phone doesn't mean losing every scanned document, or is that an intentional tradeoff you're fine with?
love that this stays fully on-device — on-device text search across multiple languages without an account is genuinely rare, and the no-watermark pdf export is a quiet win for anyone who actually uses these daily.
How does the on-device text recognition handle handwritten notes or low-quality photos with shadows, or is it strictly for clean printed pages?
How does the on-device text recognition hold up with longer or handwritten documents, and is there any plan to support more languages beyond English, Russian, and Romanian down the line?
the on-device search actually works shockingly well, found an old receipt in seconds. love that there's nothing to sign up for or unlock.
Downloaded this on a whim and genuinely surprised by how fast the edge detection works, even on crumpled receipts. The on-device text search is what sold me though, finding an old contract in seconds without it leaving my phone.
Scanned a few receipts and the edge detection picked everything up perfectly without me adjusting anything. The on-device search actually finds text in old Russian documents I had, which is a first for me.
Love the no-subscription stance, that's a breath of fresh air for scanner apps. One thing that would make this a daily driver for me: support for splitting a multi-page scan into separate documents automatically, or at least let me reorder and delete pages right inside the app before exporting the PDF.
About Clearcan on Product Hunt
“Free document scanner. No ads, no subscriptions, no cloud.”
Clearcan was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 18 upvotes and 21 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. Clearcan is a document scanner built on a simple idea: scanning should take seconds, not a subscription. Scan with automatic edge detection, search documents by their content (on-device text recognition in English, Russian, Romanian), copy text from any page, and export clean PDFs — no watermarks, no limits. Everything runs on your iPhone. No ads, no accounts, no analytics, no cloud. Built by an indie developer tired of scanner apps stuffed with paywalls.
Clearcan was featured in iOS (110.5k followers), Productivity (656.2k followers) and Privacy (11.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 191.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Clearcan?
Clearcan was hunted by Ion Hortolomei. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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