Matomo Mobile 2 vs Swift Paperless
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Matomo Mobile 2
Access your website analytics on the go with detailed visitor reports. View search engines, keywords, popular pages, and real-time visitor activity. Manage multiple accounts and customize dashboards for a comprehensive overview.
- Access web analytics on the go
- Detailed visitor reports
- Real-time visitor tracking
- Manage multiple Matomo accounts
- Customizable dashboards
- View historical and overview graphs
- Supports custom plugins
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Matomo Mobile (formerly Piwik Mobile) will help you access all of your analytics on the go, quickly and beautifully. We want to improve the app so please send your bug reports and suggestions. Matomo is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) real time web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages... and so much more. You can access these reports by using this official Matomo Mobile App. This app is sponsored by InnoCraft, the company of the makers of Matomo. InnoCraft are the Matomo experts! Do you have a bug to report or a feature request? Please contact us: mobile@matomo.org Features: * Provides the same functionality and same look and feel as Piwik * Uses your custom Matomo Dashboards * Available in more than 50 languages! * Manage multiple Matomo accounts * 'All Websites' dashboard * Choose any Date/Period * Choose any metric * Choose any of your segments * View historical and overview graphs as well as sparklines * View any available report, even reports generated by custom plugins * Follow Visitors in Real Time or in Visitor Log * Works with installations having thousands of websites * Refresh reports easy Requirements: * Matomo 2.0 or later * Some icons in Visitor screen possibly won't work if you use HTTPS with an invalid certificate * Requires the ImageGraph plugin to be active * Won't work with Matomo for WordPress. Only with Matomo On-Premise and Matomo Cloud. Matomo Mobile is available for free and a project made by the community. You can participate in the Matomo Mobile App or Matomo. Please contact us: mobile@matomo.org
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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Matomo Mobile 2 at none against Swift Paperless's 4. Matomo Mobile 2 also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Swift Paperless's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Matomo Mobile 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Matomo Mobile 2 against 4.9 for Swift Paperless. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 124 and 77 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Matomo Mobile 2's written reviews are positive against 97% of Swift Paperless's.
Matomo Mobile 2 ships an update every 6 months, Swift Paperless monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Matomo Mobile 2 | Swift Paperless |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (124 ratings) | 4.9 (77 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.5% of reviews | 97.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 77 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Steur | Paul Gessinger |
Customer experience
Matomo Mobile 2
Swift Paperless
User reviews
Matomo Mobile 2
From 124 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🔒 Privacy-focused alternative to GA
- 📊 Own your data
- 📈 Detailed user behavior insights
- 🚫 No data sampling
- 📱 Convenient mobile access
Room to improve
- 📱 App lacks polish and features
- 🐛 Strange UI decisions (e.g., clear text login)
- 📅 Default to yesterday's stats can be confusing
- 📱 Mobile app awkward to use
- 📱 iOS app needs work
Swift Paperless
From 77 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and efficient performance
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- ✨ Modern and clean design
- ✅ Seamless integration with Paperless-ngx
- 📱 Excellent mobile scanning feature
Room to improve
- 🐛 Metadata box not resizable on iPhone 13 Mini
- 🐛 Document upload screen sometimes exits unexpectedly
- 🐛 Extra step to access iOS share sheet
- 🐛 Can't scroll multi-page PDFs on iPad
- 🐛 Document scan function buried in menus
Bugs and requests
Matomo Mobile 2
Reported bugs
8 issues- App asks to send login in clear text
- Network timeout errors when making large requests
- Doesn't work with 2-factor auth
- Forces SSL connection
- App doesn't auto-refresh data
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- Swipe from center to right leads to blank page
- Multiple websites not working in a single account
- Menu structure confusing and different from desktop
Requested features
12 requests- Improve app polish and features
- Make login more secure (avoid clear text)
- Make default date more obvious or configurable
- Improve date picker UI and date range comparison
- Add ability to drill down to relevant information
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- Show multiple past visits per user
- Configure dashboard to show 'Today's stats' automatically
- Add iPhone X support
- Improve UI for selecting date ranges
- Allow selection of default site on app load
- Fix issue with multiple websites not working
- Improve menu structure for mobile app
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
In-app purchases
Matomo Mobile 2
No 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
Questions
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