Grafana vs Swift Paperless
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grafana
Monitor your systems and respond to incidents on the go. Ask questions, view dashboards, and manage alerts directly from your mobile device. Requires an existing Grafana Cloud account.
- Ask Grafana Assistant questions
- Browse and view dashboards
- Receive push notifications for alerts
- Manage alert groups
- View on-call schedules
- Respond to incidents
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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 in-app purchases: Grafana at none against Swift Paperless's 4. Grafana also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Swift Paperless's advantage is review sentiment (97% vs 67%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 65 and 77 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Grafana's written reviews are positive against 97% of Swift Paperless's.
Grafana ships an update every 9 days, Swift Paperless monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Grafana | Swift Paperless |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (65 ratings) | 4.9 (77 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 97.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 | 77 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| 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 | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Grafana Labs | Paul Gessinger |
Customer experience
Grafana
Swift Paperless
Bugs and requests
Grafana
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Swift Paperless
Reported bugs
7 issues- Metadata box not resizable on iPhone 13 Mini
- Document upload screen sometimes exits unexpectedly
- Extra step to access iOS share sheet
- Cannot scroll multi-page PDFs on iPad
- Server removal from list upon logout
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- Editing area only half screen after update
- App crying about certificate issue with HTTPS
Requested features
12 requests- Ability to quickly open next document in current view (like 'save & next')
- Option to hide preview side bar for full-screen document view
- Smarter server management in multi-instance setup
- Ability to search within a document
- Support for Title view only without thumbnails
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- Siri Shortcuts support for adding documents
- Option to add from a network scanner
- Support for SSO
- Ability to copy file content from the app
- Option to send documents from archive via share menu (e.g., email)
- Grid view with thumbnails on iPad
- Direct donation link in the app
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
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