Container Manager vs Paperless Less Paper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Container Manager
Manage and supervise your Docker containers with ease. This app allows you to view container status, logs, and perform actions like start, stop, and remove. It also supports managing images and volumes, with more features planned.
- Manage Docker containers
- Control container status (start, stop, restart)
- Create new containers
- View container logs
- Manage Docker images
- Manage Docker volumes
- Connect to Docker Engine and Portainer
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Container Manager brings monitoring and control of self-hosted Docker environments to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Connect to a Docker Engine remote API or a Portainer instance you own and manage. At a glance: • Review host information, resource usage, versions, and container status. • Browse, search, filter, and inspect containers, including live resource data, logs, environment variables, ports, and volume bindings. • Start, stop, restart, pause, unpause, kill, rename, and remove containers. • Browse, inspect, search, pull, run, and remove images. • Browse, inspect, create, prune, and remove volumes. • Attach to running containers where supported. • Explore the interface using built-in Demo Mode before connecting a server. Browsing, monitoring, details, and live logs are available without a subscription. A Supporter subscription unlocks container, image, and volume actions plus console access. Feature availability can vary by backend and API version. Requires a user-configured Docker Engine remote API or Portainer instance for live server management. Terms of Use: https://ezv-software.com/container-manager/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://ezv-software.com/container-manager/privacy/
Paperless 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.
- Connect to multiple servers
- Full search and filter
- Edit documents
- Manage correspondents, types, views, and tags
- Import documents
- Supports password-protected documents
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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 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Paperless Less Paper at 88% against Container Manager's 33%. Paperless Less Paper also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). 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. Container Manager sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Paperless Less Paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Paperless Less Paper holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paperless Less Paper has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Container Manager's written reviews are positive against 88% of Paperless Less Paper's.
Container Manager ships an update every 2 months, Paperless Less Paper every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Container Manager | Paperless Less Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EZV, spol. s r.o. | Johannes Plunien |
Customer experience
Container Manager
Paperless Less Paper
In-app purchases
Container Manager
- Supporter Level - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Supporter Level - Yearly3 Days trial$11.991 Year
Paperless Less Paper
- PRO User$3.99
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