Comparison

fileee 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

fileee

Digitize, organize, and access your important papers from anywhere. This app intelligently analyzes documents, recognizes key information, and sets reminders for deadlines. It streamlines document management, making it easy to find and share files.

Highlights
  • Scan documents with auto edge recognition
  • Intelligent document analysis and content recognition
  • Organize documents by type, date, and tags
  • Set reminders for important deadlines
  • Full-text search for any word within documents
  • Share documents easily via email
  • Synchronize across web and mobile apps
Features
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With fileee you can scan, organize and access your documents anywhere, anytime. fileee analyzes your documents, automatically recognizes important content and sorts your documents accordingly. Thanks to fileee, you always have your documents at hand and can find what you need in a matter of seconds. Like a personal assistant, filee reminds you of upcoming deadlines. Say goodbye to your file folders and leave the work to fileee. Connect your e-mail, Dropbox or GoogleDrive accounts with your fileee account.. This way your digital documents will also land in your fileee account - because who wants two different filing systems? Further cloud solutions will be available in the near future. fileee is also available as a web app for all standard browsers. All changes you make are continuously synced between the web and iOS app. What can fileee do? SCAN - the scan function allows you to digitize your documents quickly and in high quality. The automatic edge recognition and image enhancement ensure optimal results. INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS - fileee analyzes your documents and automatically recognizes important information such as sender, document type (invoices, contracts, etc.) and deadlines. ORGANIZE - fileee organizes your documents according to type, date, document type (invoice, contract, etc.) and tags. No more time consuming searches for documents. REMIND - fileee reminds you of upcoming deadlines, such as payment terms. TAG - you can add your own tags (keywords) to your document and create your own categories to find your documents even more quickly. FULL-TEXT SEARCH - fileee recognizes the entire text of a document. Using the search bar, you can search for any word in the text to find a specific document. SHARE - easily share your documents via e-mail. Create COMPANY PROFILES - using the sender information in your documents, fileee creates company profiles. This way you not only have all documents from one company together, but you also have all of the important information regarding the company at hand. SYNCHRONIZE - whether you scan documents with the fileee app or archive them using the web app, your account is continuously synchronized. PREMIUM FEATURES: - Upload 200 documents per month - prioritized upload and import of documents - download PDF with full text search - 15% discount on all fileeeBox products What can fileee help you with? Be even more flexible: always have your documents at hand, anytime, anywhere, thanks to fileee. Hand in documents on time while on the go? Check your insurance policy after water damage at home? You can quickly react to all situations, regardless of where you are. Speed up your applications: never again spend hours trying to find documents, certificates and invoices filed in different systems. Now you have all your documents in one system and can send them directly from fileee. No more deleted invoices: Your phone bill or invoices from online shops are no longer available in the online customer portal? Never lose a document again with fileee! Simply send your digital invoices directly to your fileee e-mail account or connect fileee with your personal e-mail account. Find instead of search: you easily found your smartphone bill, your customer ID or your landlord’s contact information. Search for keywords, document types, dates or document names. With the full-text search, you can search for details or for all documents containing a specific word. Never lose the overview again: remembering all of your payment deadlines or notice periods isn’t always easy. fileee reminds you of important dates and organizes your paperwork. Always have an eye on current subscriptions and invoices.

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

fileee4 screens
Paperless Less Paper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Paperless Less Paper at 4.9 against fileee's 4.3. Paperless Less Paper also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). fileee's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. fileee sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.49 per month and Paperless Less Paper sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Paperless Less Paper holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 20 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of fileee's written reviews are positive against 88% of Paperless Less Paper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

fileee ships an update every 5 weeks, Paperless Less Paper weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
fileee versus Paperless Less Paper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfileeePaperless Less Paper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings)4.9 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.1% of reviews — better87.5% of reviews
Number of ratings620 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size310 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperfileeeJohannes Plunien

Customer experience

fileee

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive89.1%
Neutral7.3%
Negative3.6%

Paperless Less Paper

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

fileee

Subscriptions2
  • Basic (Monthly)$6.491 Month
  • Smart (Monthly)$12.991 Month
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 fileee free?
fileee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paperless Less Paper free?
Paperless Less Paper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, fileee or Paperless Less Paper?
Paperless Less Paper is rated higher. fileee averages 4.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Paperless Less Paper averages 4.9 from 20 ratings.
Do fileee or Paperless Less Paper have ads?
Neither fileee nor Paperless Less Paper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, fileee or Paperless Less Paper?
fileee ships an update every 5 weeks, and Paperless Less Paper weekly. Most recently, fileee was updated on October 24, 2026 and Paperless Less Paper on October 30, 2026.

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