Swift Paperless vs Paperless Document 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!
Paperless Document Scanner
This app allows you to scan and edit documents directly from your phone. You can assign correspondents, document types, and tags before uploading them to your Paperless-ngx instance. It also supports configuring default settings for a streamlined workflow.
- Scan and edit documents
- Select from Files or Photos
- Assign correspondents, types, and tags
- Upload to Paperless-ngx
- Configure default settings
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Paperless Document Scanner is a document scanner app for Paperless-ngx. Features: * Scan and edit documents * Select documents from the Files or Photos app * Assign correspondents, document types, tags and ASN to a scanned document * Upload the scanned document to your Paperless-ngx instance * Configure default correspondents, document types, tags and storage paths
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Swift Paperless at 97% against Paperless Document Scanner's 0%. Swift Paperless also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and ratings volume (77 vs 8). Paperless Document Scanner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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. Paperless Document Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Swift Paperless holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swift Paperless has 77 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Swift Paperless's written reviews are positive against 0% of Paperless Document Scanner's.
Swift Paperless ships an update monthly, Paperless Document Scanner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swift Paperless | Paperless Document Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (77 ratings) — better | 4.6 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Gessinger | Dennis App Development |
Customer experience
Swift Paperless
Paperless Document 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
Paperless Document 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
Paperless Document Scanner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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