Comparison

Less Paper vs HABly

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

Head to head
About

Less Paper

This app provides a native mobile interface for paperless-ngx, allowing users to manage their documents on the go. It offers full search and filtering capabilities, document editing, and management of various metadata like tags and correspondents.

Highlights
  • Connect to multiple servers
  • Full search and filter
  • Edit documents
  • Manage correspondents, types, views, and tags
  • Import documents
  • Supports password-protected documents
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Less Paper is a native iOS client for paperless-ngx, 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. Select several documents and change them together, merge them, or delete them in one go. READ IT WITH NO SERVER IN REACH Favorite a document and it is kept on the device in full — the PDF, its notes, metadata and custom fields. The Favorites 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. 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. Needs paperless-ngx 2.15.3 or newer. Universal: iPhone 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

About

HABly

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Control your OpenHAB with custom widgets! Monitor temps, track energy, toggle switches – all at your fingertips. Simplify your smart home! Easy setup for your customized widgets: 1. Create a Collection 2. Add Items to the Collection 3. Customize Items 4. Add Widget on HomeScreen 5. Select Collection in the widget

Screenshots

Less Paper4 screens
HABly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HABly at none against Less Paper's 1. Less Paper's advantage is device support. On price and iOS requirement 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. Less Paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HABly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Less Paper versus HABly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLess PaperHABly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — better—
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohannes PlunienStephan Weber

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Less Paper

One-time1
  • PRO User$3.99
None

HABly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Less Paper free?
Less Paper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HABly free?
HABly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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