It scans paper. That's the whole app.

Flatbedly turns the paper on your table into a PDF on your phone. It works with no account, no cloud, and no network access — provably: the app can't make a network request, because we removed its permission to. There is no step two to upsell you on.

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Flatbedly — factory data FB-100 Rev A Sheet 01 of 01
No.PropertyValueRemark
01Network requests made, ever0The permission does not exist in the build
02Accounts required0We don't know who you are and prefer it that way
03Steps, paper to PDF4Scan · check · name · send
04Subscription tiers0We tried to think of one. Nothing came.

Values hold for all versions. There is no premium printing of this sheet.

02 · What it doesn't do

No sign-up

You open the app and it scans. We understand this is unusual. Your email address remains your business, along with everything else about you.

No cloud

Your scans live on your phone, which is where you put them. Syncing them to our computers so we can charge you to look at them again felt like a lot of ceremony.

No AI

The app finds the edges of a rectangle. This was solved before it was exciting, and we saw no reason to make it exciting again.

03 · The mascot

The lid is the head.
We know.

Every serious scanning company has a serious logo. Ours is a flatbed scanner with taped glasses and an overbite. He has scanned everything he has ever been shown, correctly, and he is very pleased about it.

“I pressed the big blue button and the paper went into the phone. Then I sent it to my daughter. Lovely little thing.”
— A tester's grandmother, who did not know she was testing
04 · Get it

Free. Not free-for-now. Free.

No trial that expires, no features behind a paywall, no annual plan billed the day you forget about it. It scans paper. Charging rent on that seemed rude.