Swift Paperless vs Keep In Touch
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!
Keep In Touch
This app helps you stay connected with friends and family by reminding you when to reach out. Set custom timers for contacts and receive visual cues when it's time to send a message. A home screen widget provides quick access to see who needs your attention most.
- Add contacts with custom timers
- Visual blur indicator for outreach prompts
- Home screen widget for urgent contacts
- Set contact frequency goals
- Track who needs to be contacted
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How to use KeepInTouch: - Open the app and add a friend or family member's contact info. - Set a frequency timer for how often you want to reach out to them. - Watch their profile picture—if it starts to blur, it is time to send a message! How to add the KeepInTouch Widget: To get the most out of the app, add our widget directly to your Home Screen to see who needs to be contacted most urgently. - Long-press any space on your Home Screen until the apps jiggle. - Tap the + button in the top corner. - Search for KeepInTouch, select your widget size, and tap Add Widget!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keep In Touch at none against Swift Paperless's 4. Keep In Touch also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Swift Paperless's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 1). 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. Keep In Touch asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Swift Paperless against 5.0 for Keep In Touch. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swift Paperless has 77 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Swift Paperless ships an update monthly, Keep In Touch every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swift Paperless | Keep In Touch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (77 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Gessinger | Aneesh Koppolu |
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
Keep In Touch
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
Keep In Touch
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Swift Paperless free?
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