With their built-in cameras and connectivity, smartphones have long made handy portable document scanners. Finding a decent one is fairly easy: Scanning apps are now routinely among app store bestsellers. Yet their toolboxes can differ, so finding the app with the right features for you can be a challenge.

These are three of the most popular scanning apps. Each makes it easy to create high- quality scans, even under less than ideal circumstances such as poor lighting, so you really can’t go wrong with any of them. But there are enough differences to make each stand out in a different way, and for a different kind of user.