Comparison

Frigoligo vs Paperless Less Paper

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

Head to head
About

Frigoligo

Access and manage your saved articles offline. This client synchronizes with your wallabag instance, ensuring your content is always available and up-to-date. It offers a fast and user-friendly experience for reading saved links.

Highlights
  • Offline article access
  • Wallabag synchronization
  • Fast and easy to use
  • Open source
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Take your links anywhere and keep them fresh! Frigoligo is a wallabag client striving to be simple but also fast and easy to use. Just like wallabag, Frigoligo is free to use, ad-free and open source. You need a wallabag instance to use this application.

About

Paperless Less Paper

This app provides a native iOS client for managing your self-hosted document archive. It allows for comprehensive searching, editing, and offline access to your documents, with robust server connection options and document organization tools.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive document searching with filters
  • Edit documents and metadata directly
  • Offline document access
  • Import documents via share sheet
  • Connect to multiple servers
  • Manage tags, correspondents, and storage paths
Features
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Less Paper is a native iOS client for paperless-ngx 3.x and earlier, the self-hosted document archive. It talks directly to your own server, and to nothing else. FIND ANYTHING The complete filter set from the web interface, custom fields included: title and content, correspondent, document type, storage path, tags, dates and ASN. Save any filter as a view, then create, edit and reorder your saved views without leaving the app. EDIT WHERE YOU ARE READING Fix a title, reassign a correspondent, add tags, notes or custom field values from the document itself — one Open menu leads to every section: Content, Custom fields, Details, History, Metadata and Notes, each editable when your account allows it. History lists who changed what and when, the way the web UI shows it. Select several documents and change them together, merge them, or delete them in one go. READ IT WITH NO SERVER IN REACH Save a document offline and it is kept on the device in full — the PDF, its notes, metadata and custom fields. The Offline tab reads those stored copies, so it works on a plane, in a basement, or anywhere your server is not. Pull to refresh and only the documents that actually changed are fetched again. GET DOCUMENTS IN Send anything on your device to paperless-ngx from the share sheet. Password-protected PDFs are unlocked on import, and the password is kept in the keychain so the next document from the same source opens without asking. The inbox then says what became of each one: File Tasks lists every import — which finished, which are still running, and which failed and why — and a failure can be dismissed once you have dealt with it. BUILT FOR REAL SETUPS Connect as many servers as you like and switch between them. Sign in with a password, or with the single sign-on provider your server is configured with. Client certificates, custom HTTP headers and reverse proxies such as Authelia are all supported. A restricted account works too: the app follows your user's permissions and simply does not show what you may not do. When something does go wrong, a local error log — with anything credential-shaped redacted out of it — is there to read and share, and nothing leaves the device unless you send it. KEEP THE ARCHIVE TIDY Create, rename and delete tags, correspondents, document types and storage paths, and set ownership and permissions on any document. Restore anything you deleted from the trash, or empty it for good. Works with every paperless-ngx from 2.15.3 to 3.x. Universal: iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad — on iPad the document opens in a column beside the list rather than covering it. Less Paper is open source. Issues and feature requests are welcome at https://github.com/plu/less-paper

Screenshots

Frigoligo4 screens
Paperless Less Paper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Frigoligo at none against Paperless Less Paper's 4. Frigoligo also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Paperless Less Paper's advantage is review sentiment (88% vs 60%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Paperless Less Paper sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Frigoligo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Frigoligo against 4.9 for Paperless Less Paper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paperless Less Paper has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Frigoligo's written reviews are positive against 88% of Paperless Less Paper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Frigoligo ships an update every 5 weeks, Paperless Less Paper weekly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Frigoligo versus Paperless Less Paper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrigoligoPaperless Less Paper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings220 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin ChaineJohannes Plunien

Customer experience

Frigoligo

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Paperless Less Paper

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Frigoligo

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Paperless Less Paper

One-time4
  • Tiny tip$1.00
  • Small tip$4.00
  • Medium tip$9.00
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  • Large tip$22.00

Questions

Is Frigoligo free?
Frigoligo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Paperless Less Paper free?
Paperless Less Paper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Frigoligo or Paperless Less Paper?
Frigoligo is rated higher. Frigoligo averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Paperless Less Paper averages 4.9 from 20 ratings.
Do Frigoligo or Paperless Less Paper have ads?
Neither Frigoligo nor Paperless Less Paper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Frigoligo or Paperless Less Paper?
Frigoligo ships an update every 5 weeks, and Paperless Less Paper weekly. Most recently, Frigoligo was updated on October 30, 2026 and Paperless Less Paper on October 30, 2026.

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