orbot VS OpenScan

Compare orbot vs OpenScan and see what are their differences.

orbot

The Github home of Orbot: Tor on Android (Also available on gitlab!) (by guardianproject)

OpenScan

A privacy-friendly Document Scanner app (by ethereal-developers)
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orbot OpenScan
24 27
1,953 1,397
4.7% 1.9%
9.6 6.3
11 days ago about 1 month ago
Java C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

orbot

Posts with mentions or reviews of orbot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-18.

OpenScan

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenScan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing orbot and OpenScan you can also consider the following projects:

MagiskHidePropsConf - This tool is now dead...

AirSane - Publish SANE scanners to MacOS, Android, and Windows via Apple AirScan.

tor-android - Tor binary and library for Android

PaddleOCR - Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices)

OnionBrowser - An open-source, privacy-enhancing web browser for iOS, utilizing the Tor anonymity network

OpenNoteScanner - Android application for scanning and manipulating handwritten notes and documents.

Orfox - UPDATE: Orfox is being replaced by Tor Browser for Android. All future work and comments will be handled by Tor Project.

Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

thgtoa - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

WeScan - Document Scanning Made Easy for iOS

exif-eraser - Permissionless image metadata erasing application for Android

CleanSCAN - A simple, smart and efficient document scanner for Android