A CamScanner alternative: no account, no watermark, and your documents never come to us.

Vitral is a document scanner for Android. Scan to PDF, sign with your finger and extract text on your phone. There is no account and no Vitral server.

Get Vitral on Google Play Free · Android · 13 languages

Vitral and CamScanner side by side

CamScanner information is taken from CamScanner’s own Google Play page, website and FAQ page as of November 2, 2026.
Google Play page · camscanner.com · CamScanner FAQ

	Vitral	CamScanner
Account	None. No sign-in.	Sign-up to sync documents across devices: “Sign up to access documents on all your devices.”
Where your documents go	Never to us: Vitral has no servers that receive your documents.	Cloud sync; cloud OCR “uploads the image to a cloud server for recognition”. On-device OCR is also offered.
Watermark	None, also in the free version.	FAQ: removing “the CamScanner watermark and QR code” requires Premium.
Ads	The free version has only a small banner ad, no full-screen ads. Pro has no ads.	Google Play label: “Contains ads”.
Paying	Pro monthly or yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase where available.	Subscriptions “billed weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually”.
Free text recognition (OCR)	7 pages a day; unlimited with Pro.	“Basic accounts can run recognition up to 10 times”
ID card scan	Free, front and back on one PDF page.	FAQ: “this is a Premium feature”.
Signature (draw with your finger)	Free (one saved signature; more with Pro).	FAQ: “this is a Premium feature”.
Export	PDF; Word (.docx) with Pro.	PDF, JPG, Word, TXT, Excel and PowerPoint.
Text recognition languages	Latin-script languages and Hindi; the app is in 13 languages.	“40+ languages” (FAQ).
Platforms	Android.	Android, iOS and web.

What else Vitral has

Works offlineScanning, text recognition, PDF tools and search all work without an internet connection.

Free PDF toolsMerge and split PDFs for free. Compression is part of Pro.

Search inside your documentsFind a document by any word in it, offline.

Locked Vault (Pro)Sensitive documents are encrypted with a key kept in the Android Keystore and opened with your fingerprint or your phone’s screen lock.

Works where you areShare → Vitral from any app, Open with → Vitral for PDFs, and a tablet layout for big screens.

Honest notes

CamScanner offers more export formats (JPG, TXT, Excel, PowerPoint) and more text recognition languages (40+).
CamScanner has cloud sync, a web version, printing and fax. Vitral has none of these.
Vitral is Android only for now.
Vitral’s free version has only a small banner ad, no full-screen ads. Pro has no ads.

Switch in two minutes

Install Vitral from Google Play.
In CamScanner, share your documents as PDF and choose “Open with → Vitral”, or share them to Vitral. They are added to your library.
Tap “Scan your first document” for new pages.

Get Vitral on Google Play

Questions

Is Vitral free?

Yes. Scanning, PDF creation, merging, splitting and signing are free, without a watermark. Extracting text (OCR) is free for 7 pages a day; Pro removes the limit. Pro (monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase where available) adds the Locked Vault, searchable PDF, Word export, compression and batch import, and removes ads.

Do I need an account?

No. Vitral has no sign-in. Open the app and scan.

Does Vitral upload my documents?

Never to us: Vitral has no account and no servers that receive your documents. Your documents are stored on your phone; if Android’s backup is on, regular documents may be included in your own Google backup (not the Locked Vault).

Can I move my CamScanner documents to Vitral?

Yes. Share them from CamScanner as PDF (CamScanner’s FAQ describes sharing as PDF), then open them with “Open with → Vitral” or share them to Vitral.CamScanner information: CamScanner’s own FAQ page, as of November 2, 2026. camscanner.com/faq