Quick Capture
Capture documents in seconds with Apple's native scanning experience, then quickly enhance, share or save.
- Camera scanning
- Import from Photos
- Import from Files
- Quick review
- Undo before save
Scan smarter. Private. Beautifully organised.
Scan it today. Find it tomorrow.
NorthScan helps you capture documents, receipts, whiteboards and books with a fast, private, Apple-native scanning experience.
Core workflows
Built for everyday paper.
From a single receipt to a multi-page PDF, NorthScan focuses on quick capture, useful enhancement, and clean local organisation.
Smart Enhance
NorthScan can straighten, deskew and improve scans while keeping every original image untouched.
- Perspective correction
- Automatic deskew
- Processing presets
- Smart suggestions
- Non-destructive edits
Quick Share
Need to send something quickly? Share a scan as PDF or JPEG without saving it first.
- Share as PDF
- Share as JPEG
- Messages, Mail, AirDrop and Files
- Optional save after sharing
Scan modes
Capture modes for real-world documents.
NorthScan includes dedicated capture modes for the things people actually need to keep.
Document
Receipt
Whiteboard
Book
Document Library
Save scans into a local document library with folders, tags, search and lifecycle tools.
- Folders
- Tags
- OCR search
- Favourites
- Archive
- Recently Deleted
Professional Editor
When you need precision, open the editor to refine pages without changing the original scan.
- Crop
- Perspective
- Deskew
- Rotate
- Duplicate and replace pages
- Whiteboard, receipt and book adjustments
Intelligent Organisation
Use OCR, tags and sensible lifecycle tools so important scans are easy to retrieve later.
- Search scanned text
- Keep favourites close
- Archive old records
- Recover deleted scans
Private by Design
NorthScan is local-first. Your scans stay on your device unless you choose to share or export them.
- No account required
- No cloud upload required
- No ads
- Local document storage
- Apple-native privacy approach
Made for iPhone
NorthScan is designed around the speed and familiarity of Apple's native document scanning, sharing and on-device text recognition tools.
- Fast capture flow
- PDF and JPEG output
- On-device organisation focus
- Release-safe roadmap
NorthScan is coming soon.
The app is not being advertised as released yet. Follow the roadmap for planned initial features and future ideas.