Invoice
What do I have to pay – and by when?
The amount, due date, and important line items are immediately clear, so you can pay on time and miss nothing.
Understand documents. Lose the stress.
Take a photo or open a PDF. ExplainThisDoc explains what matters, shows the next steps, and keeps everything easy to find.
Private. Ad-free. For iPhone.
It’s that simple
Take a photo of a letter, scan an invoice or import a PDF into ExplainThisDoc.
ExplainThisDoc clearly summarizes the document and highlights deadlines, amounts, risks, and possible tasks.
The original stays linked to the explanation and can later be found through search, filters, topic, or the original document.
For the questions behind every document
No feature list to decipher first. You immediately see what matters and what you can do next.
Invoice
The amount, due date, and important line items are immediately clear, so you can pay on time and miss nothing.
Letter or official notice
The app shows what is required, which deadline matters, and what sensible next step to take.
Contract
Contract term, notice period, rights, and obligations are clearly highlighted and remain linked to the original.
PDF and digital documents
Open a PDF, identify what matters, and reliably find it later together with the original, notes, and search.
Done and easy to find again
Search by content, deadline, or topic. The explanation and original stay together until you need them again.
Understand first. Then act.
Suspicious payment requests, risky links, and unusual wording are highlighted before you respond.
Provides orientation but does not replace professional advice.
Your documents. Clear boundaries.
The explanation and source document remain clearly linked.
Images and PDF files are not sent for analysis.
No ad tracking and no sale of personal data.
Quick explanation
ExplainThisDoc is an iPhone app for scanning, understanding, and archiving documents. It processes paper documents, photos, PDFs, text, and email content, recognizes text with OCR, and creates a clear explanation.
The app can highlight key points, deadlines, amounts, risks, case numbers, tasks, locations, and possible next steps. The explanation and original then remain available in the searchable archive.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can photograph or scan paper documents and then store, summarize and search them digitally.
Yes. ExplainThisDoc is an iPhone app that lets you scan paper documents, digitize them via OCR, import PDFs, and find everything in one searchable archive.
Yes. ExplainThisDoc can import PDFs, extract their content, and create clear summaries.
Yes. The app can highlight dates, payment deadlines, amounts, reference numbers, risks, and possible tasks.
Original documents and images are not sent to our servers or AI providers for analysis. Document preparation and text recognition run locally; iCloud Recovery can back up archive data to your private iCloud if it is available and not disabled.
No. ExplainThisDoc helps you understand and organize documents, but it does not replace legal, tax, medical, or financial advice.
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Start with the letter, the invoice or the PDF that has been waiting too long for a clear answer.