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Re:List of apps people pay for but have low rating by m463 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:23AM (#27013319)
it was gas cubby.

Another app I had that got worse was camscanner - a scanner app that would take a picture of a document and create a .pdf out of it.

It was sold to tencent. The "privacy policy" - when you could access it (broken links) was written in broken english that basically said it did anything it wanted with your .pdf files.

The kinds of documents I would image to .pdf were extremely sensitive personal documents - think w2, documents with SSN, etc...

At least apple notes eventually added a version of camera to .pdf (though it wasn't obvious how to use it when it came out)

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Re:List of apps people pay for but have low rating by MKinley on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:22AM (#27016031)
Camscanner was one of my favourite apps! I had even paid for the pro version back before it sold. Then when it sold that actually meant nothing, and now I have a "pro" app that is useless essentially.

If anyone has good alternative suggestions I'm open, I haven't tried to look as I don't use it much anymore.

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Re:List of apps people pay for but have low rating by brunno on Sunday May 02, 2021 @06:37PM (#27019688)
Microsoft Office Lens is free and really good.

You can also do it natively now in iOS Files app and Android's Google Drive.

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Re:List of apps people pay for but have low rating by MKinley on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:03PM (#27027634)
OK thanks! I will try those out!
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