This £32 app makes sure you never need a desktop scanner again

TL;DR: Keep a scanner at your fingertips forever with SwiftScan VIP, now just £31.41 (reg. £149.59) with code TAKE30.

We may poke fun at the massive multitasking printers of yesteryear, but having a scanner really did come in handy. If you find yourself missing that addition in your family's old '00s computer room, let SwiftScan VIP fill the void. This versatile scanner app can preserve documents, images, and a lot of things your old desk scanner couldn't dream of.

A lifetime licence is only £31.41 (reg. £149.59) with code TAKE30.

Scan anything right from your smartphone or iPad with a little help from SwiftScan. This genius app lets you create high-quality scans of anything from anywhere. It even enhances the scan quality, utilising color filters, auto-optimisation, and blur reduction.

Save that receipt, record a whiteboard before it's erased, or safeguard a handwritten note with just one tap. SwiftScan can detect the edges of the page and can even scan multiple pages as a single document as needed.

Once you have scanned the item, you can turn it into a PDF or JPG. From there, you can go old school and send it as a fax. Or, if you'd prefer to stay in 2025, you can also send it via email or upload it to iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, or your own preferred cloud service.

Aside from serving as your personal scanning machine, SwiftScan also helps you edit PDF files. If you need to work with a PDF — from signing to annotating or redacting — just scan it and then draw, highlight, or erase text as needed.

Once you scan an item, SwiftScan saves and organises your scans in folders. And the OCR technology makes them easily searchable later, so you can type in a keyword and find it long after scanning.

Use code TAKE30 by June 1 to get a SwiftScan VIP Lifetime Subscription on sale for £31.41.

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