Swift Paperless vs Easy Smart Scanner
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!
Easy Smart Scanner
Transform your iPhone or iPad into a powerful portable scanner. Digitize documents, photos, and receipts with high-quality, multi-page scanning and easy sharing options. Enhance your scans with custom filters and enjoy all features for free.
- High-quality scanning
- Multi-page document scanning
- Share and export in PDF
- Customizable enhancement filters
- User-friendly interface
- Completely free to use
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Scan documents with your iPhone or iPad — as many pages as you need. Easy Scanner finds the page in front of the camera, captures it as soon as you hold it steady, and straightens it into a clean, readable scan. Put down the next page and it captures again, so a whole stack goes in one page after another. Every scan is kept as a document you can name, reopen and add to whenever you like. Features • No page limit — scan a receipt, a contract, or a whole folder in one go • Automatic capture: the page is taken as soon as it's held still, hands free • Edges found for you, with the perspective straightened out • Adjust the corners by hand whenever a crop needs fixing, while scanning or later • Filters that whiten paper and sharpen text: Enhanced, Grayscale, Black & White, or the untouched photo • Searchable PDFs — text is recognised on your device, so you can search the PDF and copy from it • Copy the text of any page straight from the app • Drag to reorder pages, rotate them, delete them, or change several at once • Export as PDF, sized to your scan or to A4 or US Letter, in three file sizes • Share pages as images or save them to Photos • Import photos you have already taken Everything stays on your device. There is no account to create, nothing to sign in to, and nothing is uploaded.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Easy Smart Scanner at none against Swift Paperless's 4. Easy Smart Scanner also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Swift Paperless's advantage is ratings volume (76 vs 13). On price, rating, 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. Easy Smart Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Swift Paperless against 4.9 for Easy Smart Scanner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swift Paperless has 76 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Swift Paperless ships an update monthly, Easy Smart Scanner every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swift Paperless | Easy Smart Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (76 ratings) | 4.9 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Gessinger | Christophe Pereira |
Customer experience
Swift Paperless
Easy Smart Scanner
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
Easy Smart Scanner
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
Easy Smart Scanner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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