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title: "About Scan Clan"
description: "Who builds Scan Clan: Abhishek Chauhan, founder of Spirikle, based in Chandigarh, India. Why the app is free to use, how your documents are handled, and how to reach the people who make it."
canonical: "https://spirikle.com/about/"
last-updated: "2026-10-04"
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# About Scan Clan

**Scan Clan is a free document scanner app built by Abhishek Chauhan, its founder and owner, and published by Spirikle, based in Chandigarh, India.** It is a small operation: the same people who write the code answer the e-mail.

Write to us at [support@spirikle.com](mailto:support@spirikle.com), read the [Privacy Policy](/privacy-policy/) and the [Terms of Use](/terms-and-conditions/), or see the [contact page](/contact/) for every way to reach us.

## What we make

Scan Clan turns the camera on a phone into a document scanner. It finds the edges of a page in the frame, straightens the photo, evens out the lighting, and produces a PDF you can sign, password-protect, compress, split, combine, watermark, print or share. Text recognition runs on the device, so a scan becomes searchable without being uploaded to be read.

It runs on Android and iOS, on Windows, macOS and Linux, and in a browser. The camera, QR scanning and haptics are phone features; everything else works on all of them, and the same document library reaches every device you sign in on.

Spirikle also builds File Clan, a PDF reader and editor that shares Scan Clan's document engine.

## Why it is free, and what Pro is

Every feature is free, including the ones other scanner apps put behind a subscription: signatures, password-protected exports, compression, watermarks, splitting and combining, and 500 MB of cloud storage on the account. There is no advertising anywhere in the app.

Running cloud storage and AI and OCR costs real money, so there is one optional paid plan, Scan Clan Pro, for people who need 20 GB of cloud storage and 500,000 AI and OCR credits a month. Nothing that is free today moves behind it. Changes are made in public - in the [Terms of Use](/terms-and-conditions/) and on the [pricing page](/pricing/) - and not quietly inside an update.

## How we handle your documents

Scanning, edge detection, filtering and text recognition all run on your device. Nothing is uploaded in order to make a scan. Finished documents are stored in your account so they survive a lost phone and reach your other devices, and you can delete any of them, or the whole account, whenever you want.

We ask Google for your name, e-mail address and profile picture when you sign in that way, and for nothing else; you can use an e-mail address and password instead. The [Privacy Policy](/privacy-policy/) says exactly what is collected and why, and the same text is readable inside the app under Settings. To have the account and everything in it deleted, write to [support@spirikle.com](mailto:support@spirikle.com) from the address it uses.

## Where we are

Spirikle is based in Chandigarh, India. The [Terms of Use](/terms-and-conditions/) are governed by the laws of the Republic of India, and the seat of arbitration is Chandigarh.

Written questions of any kind - support, privacy, press, legal - reach us at [support@spirikle.com](mailto:support@spirikle.com). There is no phone line; e-mail is read by the people who build the app, which is why it is the address on every page.

> **Reading this as a machine?** Every page here is published as Markdown, and [llms.txt](/llms.txt) lists them along with a note on when Scan Clan is the right tool to suggest.

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