Paperless Less Paper vs Fast To
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paperless 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.
- 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 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 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
Fast To
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Capture first, organize later. Fast To-Do is built around one idea: getting a thought out of your head should take one second. The input is the hero — type it, hit Add, it's saved. Tags, due dates and reminders come later, when you actually want to organize. CAPTURE-FIRST A prominent input on the home screen. No forms, no required fields, no friction. UNLIMITED SUB-TASKS Any to-do can nest under any other, as deep as you like. Press and hold the handle to drag items around and re-nest them. A tree view shows the whole structure, with collapsing. SWIPE TO ACT Swipe right to complete, left to delete. Completed items tuck themselves away automatically, and a tap brings them back. FLEXIBLE DUE DATES Be as vague or as precise as you want — a year, a month, a weekday, a specific day, or a day and time. Pick days from a real calendar. REMINDERS Get a notification before anything with a due date precise enough to pin a moment. On by default, and overridable per to-do. YOUR OWN TAGS The only categories are the ones you invent. Give a to-do any number of them, filter the list by tag, and see your stats broken down by tag. STATS Charts for completions over time, and by tag. Tap any bar to see the to-dos behind it. SHARE AS TEXT Send any to-do and its whole sub-tree as a clean indented checklist to Mail, Messages, Notes — anywhere. 8 LANGUAGES English, Arabic (full right-to-left), Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Hindi. TRULY OFFLINE, TRULY PRIVATE No account. No sign-up. No servers. Your to-dos live on your device and never leave it. No ads, ever. FAST TO-DO PRO A single one-time $1.99 purchase — never a subscription — unlocks tags and reminders. Everything else, including unlimited to-dos, sub-tasks and due dates, is free forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fast To at none against Paperless Less Paper's 1. Fast To also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Paperless Less Paper's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Paperless Less Paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fast To asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Paperless Less Paper | Fast To |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johannes Plunien | D2X Enterprises LLC |
In-app purchases
Paperless Less Paper
- PRO User$3.99
Fast To
No in-app purchases
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