Comparison

Smartha App vs Paperless 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
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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

Paperless Less Paper

This app provides a native iOS client for managing your self-hosted document archive. It allows for comprehensive searching, editing, and offline access to your documents, with robust server connection options and document organization tools.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive document searching with filters
  • Edit documents and metadata directly
  • Offline document access
  • Import documents via share sheet
  • Connect to multiple servers
  • Manage tags, correspondents, and storage paths
Features
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Less Paper is a native iOS client for paperless-ngx 3.x and earlier, 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 — one Open menu leads to every section: Content, Custom fields, Details, History, Metadata and Notes, each editable when your account allows it. History lists who changed what and when, the way the web UI shows it. Select several documents and change them together, merge them, or delete them in one go. READ IT WITH NO SERVER IN REACH Save a document offline and it is kept on the device in full — the PDF, its notes, metadata and custom fields. The Offline 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. The inbox then says what became of each one: File Tasks lists every import — which finished, which are still running, and which failed and why — and a failure can be dismissed once you have dealt with it. 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. Works with every paperless-ngx from 2.15.3 to 3.x. Universal: iPhone, iPhone Duo 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
Paperless Less Paper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Paperless Less Paper at weekly against Smartha App's every 2 months. Paperless Less Paper also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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 Paperless Less Paper sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smartha App ships an update every 2 months, Paperless Less Paper weekly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Smartha App versus Paperless Less Paper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartha AppPaperless Less Paper
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—20 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size234 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEASY SmartHome GmbHJohannes Plunien

Customer experience

Smartha App

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

Paperless Less Paper

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smartha App

One-time1
  • Unlimited$22.99
4 purchases

Paperless Less Paper

One-time4
  • Tiny tip$1.00
  • Small tip$4.00
  • Medium tip$9.00
Show 1 more
  • Large tip$22.00

Questions

Is Smartha App free?
Smartha App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paperless Less Paper free?
Paperless Less Paper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smartha App or Paperless Less Paper have ads?
Neither Smartha App nor Paperless Less Paper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smartha App or Paperless Less Paper?
Smartha App ships an update every 2 months, and Paperless Less Paper weekly. Most recently, Smartha App was updated on November 3, 2026 and Paperless Less Paper on November 3, 2026.

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