Paperless-ngx
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 24, 2026first mention
Oct 9, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Huge shout-out to HomeAssistant, PiHole, paperless-ngx, Dawarich, and countless others”
homelabberon “Immich v3.0.0 Released”
“might be a nice rabbit hole for you”
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“A community-supported supercharged document management system”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1 mention
- New gTLD Application for .lan 1 mention
- Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base 1 mention
- Immich v3.0.0 Released 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are your top open source apps/software? 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) 1 mention
Also written as paperless-ngx. Data: paperless-ngx.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“over paperless and navidrome”
“immich.lan, paperless.lan, etc.”
“Sounds similar to https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/”
“Huge shout-out to HomeAssistant, PiHole, paperless-ngx, Dawarich, and countless others”
Linux / Gnome, Firefox, Immich, Paperless NGX, GIMP
“I recently started using Paperless to manage all my documents”
“I recently started with Paperless-ngx”
“might be a nice rabbit hole for you”
“A community-supported supercharged document management system”
“I am using SQLite on paperless-ngx”