Grafana vs Swift Paperless
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grafana
Manage and respond to critical system events from anywhere. Designed for on-call engineers, it offers reliable alert notifications and reminders to simplify incident response duties.
- Incident management
- On-call reminders
- Alert notifications
- System event response
- On-the-go management
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Grafana is the official mobile app for Grafana Cloud. Stay connected to your observability and incident response workflows wherever you are. With the Grafana mobile app, you can: • Ask Grafana Assistant questions and continue recent conversations • Browse dashboards and view starred dashboards and panels • Receive reliable push notifications for alerts and incidents • Acknowledge, resolve, silence, or escalate alert groups • See who is on call and review upcoming schedules • Respond to incidents and keep the timeline updated • Page a team or trigger a manual alert An existing Grafana Cloud account is required. Available features depend on the products enabled for your stack and your permissions. The app does not support Grafana OSS. Learn more at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/irm/irm-mobile-app/.
Swift Paperless
This app allows users to manage documents directly from their iOS device. It seamlessly integrates with a self-hosted document management system, ensuring data privacy and control. Easily find, categorize, and add new documents on the go.
- Native iOS integration
- Paperless-ngx compatibility
- Document finding
- Document categorization
- Add documents from phone
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Swift Paperless is a native iOS app that interacts with the popular Paperless-ngx document management software. Paperless-ngx is self-hosted, and therefore fully privacy preserving: you control your data! With Swift Paperless, it's easy to find, categorize and also add documents from your phone!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Swift Paperless at 97% against Grafana's 60%. Swift Paperless also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Grafana's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Swift Paperless sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Grafana asks for nothing beyond the download.
Swift Paperless holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 68 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Grafana's written reviews are positive against 97% of Swift Paperless's.
Grafana ships an update fortnightly, Swift Paperless every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grafana | Swift Paperless |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (61 ratings) | 4.9 (68 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 96.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 68 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Grafana Labs | Paul Gessinger |
Customer experience
Grafana
Swift Paperless
In-app purchases
Grafana
No in-app purchases
Swift Paperless
- Coffee money$3.99
- Proper thank-you$8.99
- Above and beyond$17.99
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- Legendary generosity$44.99
