Swift Paperless vs Karakeep App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Karakeep App
Effortlessly save links, notes, and images with automatic AI-powered tagging for quick retrieval. Search through all your saved content, including link contents, at blazing fast speeds. Organize your saved items into custom lists and share content from any app.
- Automatic AI tagging
- Full-text search
- Custom lists
- Sharing extension
- Save links, notes, and images
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Content (including link contents) are indexed for blazing fast full text search. Organize you items into custom lists. Sharing extension to hoard items from any other apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Karakeep App at none against Swift Paperless's 4. Swift Paperless's advantage is review sentiment (97% vs 71%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Karakeep App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Swift Paperless holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 72 and 43 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Swift Paperless's written reviews are positive against 71% of Karakeep App's.
Swift Paperless ships an update monthly, Karakeep App every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swift Paperless | Karakeep App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (72 ratings) — better | 4.6 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.0% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 43 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Paul Gessinger | Mohamed Bassem |
Customer experience
Swift Paperless
Karakeep App
Bugs and 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
Karakeep App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Karakeep App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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