Mobile & Desktop Apps

Paperless has been around for a while now, and people have built tools that interact with it.

Please note that the current Paperless-ngx team does not explicitly endorse, support or contribute to any of the projects / tools listed here.

If you're one of them, please reach out and we can add your project to the list or you can update this wiki yourself. Current projects include:

Mobile
- Paperless Mobile: Android by Anton Stubenbord
  A modern, feature rich app for Paperless-ngx.
- Paperless Share: Android by Quinn Casey
  Share any files from your application with Paperless-ngx. Very simple, but works with all mobile scanning apps that allow you to share scanned documents.
- QuickScan: iOS by iSolid apps
  Free, feature-rich app, that supports scanning directly into Paperless.
- Scan4Paperless: iOS by Christian Hofmann
  Scanning & feeding your Paperless instance made easy.
See also the Wiki page about recommended mobile scanner apps.
Desktop
- Scan to Paperless: Python by Stéphane Brunner
  Scan and prepare (crop, deskew, OCR, ...) your documents for use in Paperless-ngx.
Cross-Device
- Paperparrot: macOS/iOS/iPadOS by Leo Wehrfritz
  A native Swift/SwiftUI client. Works offline and supports network scanners.
- Swift Paperless: iOS/iPadOS by Paul Gessinger
  Native app for interacting with a Paperless-ngx installation to manage documents.
- Less Paper: macOS/iOS/iPadOS by AptumTek
  Yet another native iOS app for paperless-ngx (supporting forward-auth like Authelia or Authentik).

Former Projects

Mobile
- ~~Paperless App~~: Android by Johann Bauer
  A mobile application for Paperless-ngx.
Desktop
- ~~Paperless Desktop~~: macOS by Thomas Brüggemann
  macOS app that uses the paperless API to manage your document scans.

API Clients

Paperless Mobile: Dart by Anton Stubenbord
Uses its own API client.
Paperhooks: Go by Michael Hanselmann
Toolkit for writing consumption hooks, includes a REST API client.
PyPaperless: Python by Tobias Schulz
Asynchronous wrapper for the REST API.
Paperless-ngx CLI: Python by Marcel Brückner
A command-line interface for Paperless-ngx.
paperless-rs: Rust by boul2gom
An asynchronous library for the Paperless-ngx document manager.
paperless-dde: VBA by dast5022
A template for Microsoft Excel to export document data to Excel via REST API

Paperless Mailservice: Go by carlosz1986
Sends custom tagged documents to one or more defined email addresses (different rulesets possible).
paperless-gpt: Go by Icereed
A tool designed to generate accurate and meaningful document titles and tags for Paperless-ngx using Large Language Models (LLMs).
paperless-ai: JavaScript/NodeJS by Clusterzx
An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API to automatically analyze and tag your documents and add correspondents.
paperless-mcp: JavaScript/NodeJS by nloui
Allows for interacting with Paperless-ngx using AI clients, such as Claude Desktop, through MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Paperless Scripts Collection: Shell Python by Marcel Brückner & Contributors
A community-sourced collection of (not only) Shell scripts around Paperless-ngx.

As noted above, the Paperless-ngx team does not explicitly verify or endorse any of the products listed here.
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