PaperCut Hive vs uniFLOW Online Print & Scan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PaperCut Hive
Securely release print jobs from your mobile device at your organization's printers. This app offers a convenient, touch-free way to manage your printing needs, with options to review and adjust print settings before collection.
- Secure print job release via mobile
- Touch-free printing options (NFC, QR code)
- Print job review and modification
- Cross-device printing support
- Contactless document collection
- Find-me/pull-printing functionality
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PaperCut Hive makes printing convenient, responsible, and secure in your organization. We're all for flexibility. This app gives you the option to securely release your print jobs using your mobile phone. Of course, you can also release your job at the MFD/Printer touch screen as well. This mobile app just gives you one more option, and a touch-free one at that! To get the most out of this app, make sure you have an approved email invitation to use your organization's printers & MFPs. To release prints using your phone, simply tap your phone on an NFC sticker on the printer, scanning a QR code, or selecting the printer's name from a list. Did you forget to double-side the document? No problem, the PaperCut Hive app will remind you and allow you to make those changes on your way to the printer. PaperCut Hive makes it easy to print from all your devices including desktops, laptops, Chromebooks, and of course your iOS phone. See! You can use your phone for work too! Here’s how it works: - You’ll receive an invitation from your organization - It will guide you through the installation of this app as well as apps on your computers and other devices - You will then be able to select ‘PaperCut Printer’ when printing from any of your devices - This app also allows you to view your print jobs and securely collect your documents at any printer/MFD in your organization - Simply walk up to the printer and tap the NFC stickers, scan a QR code, or use the MFD touch screen. This app gives you a contactless/touch-free release method. Benefits: - Have you ever printed your payslip and had to run (sprint!) to the printer to collect it before anyone else does? Fixed! - Have you walked to the printer only to realise your document has gone somewhere else? Fixed! We call this find-me or pull-printing printing. - Do you forget to select duplex at the time of printing, but then feel guilty as you watch an endless stream of pages roll out? Fixed! - Confused by different print dialogues on different devices? BYOD? Fixed! - Need to set up printing on a new device and wish it could be as easy as installing a new app? Fixed! Have a question? Please email support@papercut.com or get in touch with the PaperCut Partner supporting you. Note: This app requires that your organization has an active and configured PaperCut Hive account and the PaperCut Hive embedded software installed on your MFDs. You should receive an invitation or instruction on how to set up this app from your organization. Your confidentiality is our priority. Your data is treated like we'd want our data to be treated. Check out our Privacy Policy for the full story. In fact your confidentiality is super important to us and that's exactly the reason we invented PaperCut Hive (and of course to reduce print waste and make printing easy).
uniFLOW Online Print & Scan
Submit and print documents securely from your mobile device. This app allows you to manage print jobs, apply finishing options, and release them at any compatible printer. Gain insights into your printing activity with an intuitive dashboard.
- Secure mobile print and scan management
- Submit print jobs from iPhone and iPad
- Predefined finishing options
- Print job release via QR code
- Intuitive print activity dashboard
- Self-registration process
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Send print jobs from anywhere! The uniFLOW Online Print & Scan app brings secure print and scan management functionality to your iPhone and iPad. Businesses have responded to the growing usage of mobile devices in daily business operations. The uniFLOW Online Print & Scan app ensures that businesses can offer mobile print services without security concerns in mind. The app allows you to use your iPhone and iPad to print documents quickly and efficiently while maintaining sophisticated document security! Easily submit your standard office files, image files or pictures. With the submission into your personal secure print queue, you can choose predefined finishing options, such as double-sided, staple, and hole-punch. The app allows every user to have documents printed quickly on the go, just in time for the next meeting. To print your files, select the print job from the print queue and scan the QR code on the printer’s user interface for immediate document release. Quickly gain insights into all your personal print activity, such as the statistics of printed or recently printed jobs, thanks to the intuitive dashboard available in the app. The app is available to every registered uniFLOW Online user. For the IT administrator, it’s no effort at all thanks to the comprehensive and straightforward self-registration process. The uniFLOW Online Print & Scan app allows you to securely submit and print your documents. - Intuitive dashboard displaying personal statistical information - Submit print jobs directly from your iPhone and iPad - Upload job via file/ photo selection (jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx) - Upload job by taking a photo - Predefine finishing options such as duplex, staple, and hole-punch, color/ b&w, number of copies - Review or delete current print jobs from your print queue - Print job release via app, print all or select individual files - Easy and straightforward self-registration process Print jobs can be easily released on any uniFLOW Online controlled printer in your organization, school, or university. All your print jobs are available at any time, regardless of how they have been submitted, via mobile app, email, browser, or printer driver. What is uniFLOW Online? uniFLOW Online is a secure cloud print and scan solution which enables organizations to manage their entire print and scan environment. The solution aims to increase document security, enable cost control, and enhance employee productivity while simultaneously reducing internal IT requirements. It is designed to meet the needs of organizations that do not wish to invest in or manage local servers but still need to control their full printing and scanning process.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PaperCut Hive at 5.0 against uniFLOW Online Print & Scan's 2.7. PaperCut Hive also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (12% vs 0%). uniFLOW Online Print & Scan's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PaperCut Hive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uniFLOW Online Print & Scan has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of PaperCut Hive's written reviews are positive against 0% of uniFLOW Online Print & Scan's.
PaperCut Hive ships an update every 5 weeks, uniFLOW Online Print & Scan every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PaperCut Hive | uniFLOW Online Print & Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 2.7 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 11.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PaperCut Software | NT-ware |
Customer experience
PaperCut Hive
uniFLOW Online Print & Scan
Bugs and requests
PaperCut Hive
Reported bugs
22 issues- App regularly crashes
- App closes as soon as it's opened
- Print jobs disappear
- App crashes preventing phone release
- Printers becoming inoperable
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- Printer resetting itself
- Desktop download doesn't work on Mac
- Crashes and doesn't load prints
- Randomly crashes
- Computer won't cooperate (Macs)
- App crashes after a few uses
- Crashes upon load
- App is too unstable
- App won't open or crashes on click
- Error messages not always appearing
- Crashing since update
- Constantly needed to delete and redownload
- Need to frequently re-request access
- Keeps crashing, can't open app
- Have to delete and reinstall bi-weekly
- System doesn't refresh
- Does not work well with Macs
Requested features
5 requests- Enable search in printer list
- Enable ascii copy paste of QR code value
- App works natively with iPad screen resolution
- Support QR code loading from images
- Mark specific printers as favorites
uniFLOW Online Print & Scan
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PaperCut Hive
No in-app purchases
uniFLOW Online Print & Scan
No in-app purchases
Questions
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