Swift Paperless
58
Quality Score
Solid
Swift Paperless
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Swift Paperless is an iOS app from Paul Gessinger in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.9★ across 61 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (61 ratings)METRIC | −$300 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v1.10.0
Redesigned document detail screen
The document detail screen has been completely redesigned with clearer metadata
and sheet-based editing for tags, correspondent, document type, storage path,
dates, ASN, custom fields, and owner. The PDF now pages horizontally with a page… Full release notes →
The document detail screen has been completely redesigned with clearer metadata
and sheet-based editing for tags, correspondent, document type, storage path,
dates, ASN, custom fields, and owner. The PDF now pages horizontally with a page… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Swift Paperless
- Developer
- Paul Gessinger
- Bundle ID
- com.paulgessinger.swift-paperless
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PL, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Swift Paperless
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $342/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- github github.com/paulgessinger/swift-paperless
- swift-paperless@paulgessinger.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- swift-paperless.gessinger.dev/common_…
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth62 ratings+933% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (22 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
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!
With Swift Paperless, it's easy to find, categorize and also add documents from your phone!
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 27 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.10.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FR, DE +3📂 Productivity💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
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Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
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Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 61 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Swift Paperless make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Swift Paperless earns approximately $342/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Swift Paperless?▴
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Who makes Swift Paperless?▴
Swift Paperless is published by Paul Gessinger on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Swift Paperless's BU Score?▴
Swift Paperless has a BU Score of 58/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.