Scanify is a link checker built by one person who got tired of guessing.

Who builds Scanify

What Scanify is, and what it is not

Scanify is a safety scanner for links, files and IP addresses. You paste something suspicious, we check it against many independent sources at once, and you get a single 0 to 100 risk score with the evidence underneath it.

Scanify is not a document or PDF scanning app. Several unrelated mobile apps share the Scanify name. If you are looking for a camera scanner, you are in the wrong place. If you want to know whether a link is safe to click, you are in the right one.

How a scan works

Every URL scan runs the same seven checks in parallel and finishes in about five seconds. Each source contributes a weighted amount to the score. The full weighting table is published on our How we score page.

Source	What it tells us
VirusTotal	Verdicts from multiple commercial antivirus and threat-intelligence engines
Google Safe Browsing	Whether Google's phishing and malware blocklist knows the URL
urlscan.io	Independent sandbox analysis of the page's behaviour
WHOIS / RDAP	How old the domain is and who registered it
SSL certificate	Validity, issuer, age and whether it matches the hostname
Redirect tracing	Where a shortened or cloaked link really lands
Scanify sandbox screenshot	A picture of the page captured in our own isolated browser, so you never have to load it yourself

Rules we hold ourselves to

1. We fail closed. If every threat-intelligence source is unavailable, the scan errors out. It never returns a fake "safe" verdict built from no data.
2. We show our evidence. Every score comes with the engine-by-engine breakdown that produced it, so you can audit the verdict rather than trust a black box.
3. We never open the page on your device. Screenshots and redirect traces run on our servers, in a sandbox that is thrown away after every scan.
4. We do not sell scan data. Uploads are temporarily written to Scanify’s server and deleted after the request. Files up to 650 MB may be submitted to VirusTotal, which retains samples in its security dataset. Avoid confidential files. URLs are shared with the sources needed to check them.
5. Public safety reports are only published for real scans. A report page exists for a domain only after it has been scanned, and it is refreshed when the domain is scanned again.

Editorial standards for the blog

Every guide on the Security Blog is written and reviewed by Karim. Guides describe scam patterns we have seen in real scans or that are documented by public sources such as the FTC, the FBI's IC3 and vendor threat reports. We date every article, update it when the advice changes, and retire articles that stop being useful instead of leaving them to rot. In September 2026 we removed fourteen off-topic articles for exactly that reason. In October 2026 we retired a World Cup ticket guide once the tournament was over, and rewrote the free-stream scam guide so it applies to any big match.

Corrections and false positives

Multi-engine scanning is the strongest signal available without detonating a page in a full sandbox, but it is not perfect. Brand-new phishing pages can take hours to be flagged, and legitimate sites are occasionally flagged by a single engine. If Scanify got a verdict wrong, use the Report button on any result or email us. We review every report.

Business details

Scanify is operated by ShieldScan and is free to scan with. Pro, which shows full results, is billed through Paddle as merchant of record. See our Terms, Privacy Policy and Pricing. Press and partnership enquiries: press kit.