The Short Version
Scanner turns paper into documents you can keep and send. Your documents stay on your iPhone or iPad — they are never sent to us, and we never see them. There is no account, no ads and no tracking.
Your Documents Stay on Your Device
The pages you scan or bring in are stored inside the app on your device, together with the words read from them and any text or signature you add. Everything the app does with them — straightening and cleaning up pages, reading their words so you can search them, rotating, putting pages in order, making the file you send — happens on your device. The signature you draw is kept on your device too, so you can add it again later. Your documents and saved signature are included in your device’s own backups (iCloud Backup or a backup to your computer) if you have those turned on; we cannot access those backups.
Camera and Photos
The app uses the camera only while you are scanning, and only after you allow it. To bring in a photo, you pick it in Apple’s photo picker: the app receives only the photos you choose and never asks for access to your photo library. Pictures you share to Scanner from another app are brought into Scanner when you next open it, and Scanner then deletes its own temporary copy. Photos you bring in are kept without their location and camera details.
Sending, Printing and Saving
When you share, print or save a document, it goes only where you choose, through iOS. The pages you send carry no location or camera details. The app does not upload a copy anywhere else.
Face ID, Touch ID and Passcode
If you used the document lock in an earlier version, it stays on until you turn it off. iOS checks your face, fingerprint or passcode and tells the app only whether it succeeded. Your biometric data never leaves the system and is never available to the app or to us.
Purchases
Subscriptions are sold and managed by Apple through the App Store. Apple tells the app which plan is active and until when — never your payment details, name or email address. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings, and refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
No Analytics, Ads or Tracking
Version 7.0 and later contain no analytics, advertising or tracking code and do not use the advertising identifier. We do not build a profile of you, and we never sell or share your data — the app never sends us any.
Earlier Versions
Versions before 7.0 used RevenueCat, a subscription service, to check whether a subscription was active; it received an anonymous identifier created by the app and your purchase history, not your name or your documents. Those versions also offered photo colorization, which sent the photo you chose to a third-party image-processing service and deleted it after processing; that feature has been discontinued. Their voice transcription used Apple’s speech recognition. Versions released between July 2020 and January 2021 also included Google Firebase Analytics.
Deleting Your Data
When you delete a document, it moves to Recently Deleted, where it stays for 30 days so you can recover it; after that it is erased for good. To erase it sooner, open Recently Deleted, swipe left on the document and tap Delete Now. Deleting the app removes everything it stored on your device. Because we never hold your documents, there is nothing for us to delete on our side.
Changes and Questions
If you email us, from the app or not, we receive your email address and what you write, so we can reply; the app adds nothing to your message but a subject line. If this policy changes, the new version will appear on this page. Last updated: October 19, 2026. Questions? Email support@futuraapp.com.