Grainy: Make PDF Look Scanned

Grainy makes clean digital documents look printed, signed, and scanned — without needing a printer or scanner.

It adds realistic imperfections like noise, texture, slight rotation, and subtle aging so your PDFs and images feel physical instead of pristine.

Grainy focuses on appearance. It’s designed for situations where documents are expected to look scanned, even when they start digitally. Awesome art has a little grain, a little grunge, and looks properly aged!

What Grainy Does

Grainy simulates real-world print-and-scan artifacts, including:

- Scanner-style noise and grain
- Subtle rotation and misalignment
- Paper texture and shading
- Grayscale or low-fi scanned looks
- Optional aging and wear effects

The result looks like a document that’s been handled and scanned — not a perfect digital export.

Common Uses

Grainy is useful when you need to:

- Make a PDF look printed and scanned
- Add a realistic “wet document” feel
- Submit paperwork that expects scanned files
- Avoid unnecessary printing and rescanning
- Create aged or distressed document aesthetics

Grainy does not replace a scanner. It recreates the look of one.

How It Works

1. Import a PDF or image
2. Adjust the scan effect until it looks right
3. Add a signature, date or mark if needed
4. Export your finished document (send via email or save to device and upload as needed)

You can preview and fine-tune the look before exporting.

File Size & Quality

Exports are optimized to balance:

- Readability
- Realistic scanned appearance
- Reasonable file sizes for emailing and uploads

Privacy & Files

- Processing of files is done on your device
- Files are used only to provide the requested processing
- Files are not manually reviewed

Subscription

Some features require a subscription:

- Unlimited exports
- Cancel anytime

Subscriptions are handled securely by Apple and can be managed through your App Store account.

About

Grainy is built by Ambitious Analytics Labs, creators of practical tools for working with PDFs and images.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/