Comparison

Smartha App vs Less Paper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Smartha App

Unify control of diverse smart home systems from a single application. Manage devices, view real-time data, and create custom layouts and routines for a personalized smart home experience. Supports multiple gateways and offers push notifications for alerts.

Highlights
  • Control multiple smart home systems
  • Real-time device data
  • Groundplan status display
  • Geofencing capabilities
  • Customizable views and designs
  • Routine creation and execution
  • Push notifications
Features
Read full description

The Smartha App is a cross-platform application developed by EASY SmartHome GmbH with the aim of enabling the uniform control of separately used smart home systems from various manufacturers. The following gateways are currently supported: - Smart Home Automation smartha - Homematic CCU1, CCU2 and CCU3 - Homematic IP Access Point - Philips Hue - RaspberryMatic - Homegear Features: - Control multiple systems and control gateways - Device data in real time - Status display with groundplan mode - Geofencing - Create custom views - Layout devices based on your needs - Create individual designs - Use your own pictures as icons - Create and execute routines - Receive push notifications - Login with fingerprint and password - User administration - Import app backups across devices - Add camera streams

About

Less Paper

This app provides a native mobile interface for paperless-ngx, allowing users to manage their documents on the go. It offers full search and filtering capabilities, document editing, and management of various metadata like tags and correspondents.

Highlights
  • Connect to multiple servers
  • Full search and filter
  • Edit documents
  • Manage correspondents, types, views, and tags
  • Import documents
  • Supports password-protected documents
Read full description

Less Paper is a native iOS client for paperless-ngx, the self-hosted document archive. It talks directly to your own server, and to nothing else. FIND ANYTHING The complete filter set from the web interface, custom fields included: title and content, correspondent, document type, storage path, tags, dates and ASN. Save any filter as a view, then create, edit and reorder your saved views without leaving the app. EDIT WHERE YOU ARE READING Fix a title, reassign a correspondent, add tags, notes or custom field values from the document itself. Select several documents and change them together, merge them, or delete them in one go. READ IT WITH NO SERVER IN REACH Favorite a document and it is kept on the device in full — the PDF, its notes, metadata and custom fields. The Favorites tab reads those stored copies, so it works on a plane, in a basement, or anywhere your server is not. Pull to refresh and only the documents that actually changed are fetched again. GET DOCUMENTS IN Send anything on your device to paperless-ngx from the share sheet. Password-protected PDFs are unlocked on import, and the password is kept in the keychain so the next document from the same source opens without asking. BUILT FOR REAL SETUPS Connect as many servers as you like and switch between them. Sign in with a password, or with the single sign-on provider your server is configured with. Client certificates, custom HTTP headers and reverse proxies such as Authelia are all supported. A restricted account works too: the app follows your user's permissions and simply does not show what you may not do. When something does go wrong, a local error log — with anything credential-shaped redacted out of it — is there to read and share, and nothing leaves the device unless you send it. KEEP THE ARCHIVE TIDY Create, rename and delete tags, correspondents, document types and storage paths, and set ownership and permissions on any document. Restore anything you deleted from the trash, or empty it for good. Needs paperless-ngx 2.15.3 or newer. Universal: iPhone and iPad — on iPad the document opens in a column beside the list rather than covering it. Less Paper is open source. Issues and feature requests are welcome at https://github.com/plu/less-paper

Screenshots

Smartha App4 screens
Less Paper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Less Paper at weekly against Smartha App's every 2 months. Smartha App's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Smartha App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Less Paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smartha App ships an update every 2 months, Less Paper weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Smartha App versus Less Paper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartha AppLess Paper
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size234 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEASY SmartHome GmbHJohannes Plunien

Customer experience

Smartha App

Written reviews20 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative5.0%

Less Paper

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smartha App

One-time1
  • Unlimited$22.99
1 purchases

Less Paper

One-time1
  • PRO User$3.99

Questions

Is Smartha App free?
Smartha App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Less Paper free?
Less Paper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smartha App or Less Paper have ads?
Neither Smartha App nor Less Paper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smartha App or Less Paper?
Smartha App ships an update every 2 months, and Less Paper weekly. Most recently, Smartha App was updated on September 18, 2026 and Less Paper on September 10, 2026.

Other comparisons