Moe Memos vs Paperless Less Paper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moe Memos
Capture thoughts and ideas quickly with this app. It offers both local on-device storage and synchronization with a self-hosted server. Enjoy offline functionality, rich media support, and robust organization tools.
- Quick idea capture
- Local or self-hosted server sync
- Offline functionality
- Markdown support
- Save images, videos, and files
- Tagging and search organization
- Progress graph visualization
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Moe Memos is an app to help you capture thoughts and ideas. You can use Moe Memos with either a self-hosted Memos server or locally on your device. Features: - Write memos like tweeting to yourself - Use local on-device storage or sync with your own Memos server - Fully functional offline and automatically pushes data when back online - Extended Markdown support - Save images, videos, files and Journaling Suggestions - Organize and find memos with tags, pinning, and search - View your memo activity with a progress graph - Liquid Glass, Dark Mode, and Dynamic Type support - Home screen widget for revisiting past memos - Available on iPhone and iPad - Full privacy protection, no data collection Moe Memos is a third-party client for Memos and isn't affiliated with the open source project Memos.
Paperless Less Paper
This app provides a native iOS client for paperless-ngx, a self-hosted document archive. It allows users to search, edit, and organize documents directly from their devices, with offline access and secure server connections.
- Full web interface filter set
- Edit documents directly
- Offline document access
- Send documents via share sheet
- Connect to multiple servers
- Manage tags, correspondents, and types
- Restore deleted 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, 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paperless Less Paper at 4.9 against Moe Memos's 4.1. Paperless Less Paper also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Moe Memos 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.
Paperless Less Paper holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Moe Memos's written reviews are positive against 88% of Paperless Less Paper's.
Moe Memos ships an update every 2 months, Paperless Less Paper weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moe Memos | Paperless Less Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (47 ratings) | 4.9 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 宇霆 郭 | Johannes Plunien |
Customer experience
Moe Memos
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In-app purchases
Moe Memos
- Buy me a coffee$4.99
Paperless Less Paper
- Tiny tip$1.00
- Small tip$4.00
- Medium tip$9.00
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- Large tip$22.00
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