Comparison

Less Paper vs Karakeep App

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

Karakeep App

Effortlessly save links, notes, and images with automatic AI-powered tagging for quick retrieval. Search through all your saved content, including link contents, at blazing fast speeds. Organize your saved items into custom lists and share content from any app.

Highlights
  • Automatic AI tagging
  • Full-text search
  • Custom lists
  • Sharing extension
  • Save links, notes, and images
Features
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Content (including link contents) are indexed for blazing fast full text search. Organize you items into custom lists. Sharing extension to hoard items from any other apps.

Screenshots

Less Paper4 screens
Karakeep App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Karakeep App at none against Less Paper's 1. Karakeep App also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Less Paper's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Karakeep App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Less Paper holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 43 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Less Paper's written reviews are positive against 69% of Karakeep App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Less Paper ships an update weekly, Karakeep App every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Less Paper versus Karakeep App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLess PaperKarakeep App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (18 ratings) — better4.6 (43 ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews — better68.8% of reviews
Number of ratings1843 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB64 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJohannes PlunienMohamed Bassem

Customer experience

Less Paper

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

Karakeep App

All ratings43 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral4.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive68.8%
Neutral12.5%
Negative18.8%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Less Paper

One-time1
  • PRO User$3.99
None

Karakeep App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Less Paper free?
Less Paper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Karakeep App free?
Karakeep App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Less Paper or Karakeep App?
Less Paper is rated higher. Less Paper averages 4.9 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Karakeep App averages 4.6 from 43 ratings.
Do Less Paper or Karakeep App have ads?
Neither Less Paper nor Karakeep App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Less Paper or Karakeep App?
Less Paper ships an update weekly, and Karakeep App every 6 weeks. Most recently, Less Paper was updated on September 10, 2026 and Karakeep App on September 21, 2026.

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