Comparison

Swift Paperless vs CaptMe

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Native iOS integration
  • Paperless-ngx compatibility
  • Document finding
  • Document categorization
  • Add documents from phone
Features
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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!

About

CaptMe

This app provides live transcription and translation for face-to-face conversations, aiding individuals with hearing impairments and facilitating communication in multilingual settings. It instantly identifies speakers and displays real-time captions, making interactions more natural.

Highlights
  • Live transcription
  • Real-time translation
  • Speaker identification
  • Supports 53 languages
  • No conversation monitoring
  • EU GDPR compliant
Features
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CaptMe transforms your mobile phone into a live subtitler and translator for face-to-face conversation: - for all people in close contact with persons who are hard of hearing or deaf; - for travelers and businesspeople in multilingual situations. CaptMe transcribe, translate and identify instantly the different person speaking even in noisy environment, so that you can naturally speak. When speaking to a foreigner, it is no more necessary to search for words in foreign language. Enhance your CaptMe experience by buying our hands-free kit composed of an exclusive neck lanyard and a smartphone quickstand available on our store at https://www.captme.ai. The magnetic neck lanyard let you fix your smartphone through the Magsafe interface, screen facing your audience. Your real-time captions will be displayed under your face, like in a subtitled movie. The smartphone quickstand lets you prop your cell phone up on a table so you can easily follow along on the screen as others speak. CaptMe supports currently 53 languages for transcription and translation between each other: Arabic, Bengali, Bashkir, Basque, Bulgarian, Cantonese (traditional), Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean,  Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (latin), Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian (cyrillic), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili (latin), Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Welsh. Your conversations are not monitored or recorded by CaptMe. Your voiceprint is not stored without your consent. However, your anonymized voice data may be used by our European partner to improve speech recognition and transcriptions. CaptMe is EU GDPR compliant. Application and storage are 100% based on European cloud servers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Swift Paperless4 screens
CaptMe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Swift Paperless at free against CaptMe's free with in-app purchases. CaptMe's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Swift Paperless sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and CaptMe sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swift Paperless ships an update monthly, CaptMe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Swift Paperless versus CaptMe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwift PaperlessCaptMe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (72 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews97.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings72 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul GessingerTERMDICO

Customer experience

Swift Paperless

All ratings72 ratings
Positive98.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.5%

CaptMe

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

CaptMe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Swift Paperless

One-time4
  • Coffee money$3.99
  • Proper thank-you$8.99
  • Above and beyond$17.99
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  • Legendary generosity$44.99
9 purchases

CaptMe

Subscriptions3
  • CaptMe - Starter$8.991 Month
  • CaptMe - Intermediate$17.991 Month
  • CaptMe - Advanced$24.991 Month
One-time6
  • CaptMe - Top-up 1$1.99
  • CaptMe - Top-up 2$7.99
  • CaptMe - Top-up 3$14.99
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  • CaptMe - Top-up 4$29.99
  • CaptMe - Top-up 5$69.99
  • CaptMe - Top-up 6$149.99

Questions

Is Swift Paperless free?
Swift Paperless is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CaptMe free?
CaptMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Swift Paperless or CaptMe have ads?
Neither Swift Paperless nor CaptMe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Swift Paperless or CaptMe?
Swift Paperless ships an update monthly, and CaptMe every 2 weeks. Most recently, Swift Paperless was updated on October 15, 2026 and CaptMe on October 5, 2026.

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