--- title: Paperwork Reviews meta_title: 'Paperwork Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 14 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Paperwork works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.7 review_count: 14 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Paperwork Reviews **Vendor:** Paperwork **Category:** [Note-Taking Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/note-taking-software) **Average Rating:** 3.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Paperwork OpenSource note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep ## Paperwork Reviews ### 1. "Review of Paperwork" An Amazing tool for all"! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** I like paperwork because you be able to customize it as you want and not just that feature which can help for taking notes on the go is amazing and it is also open source not just that Paperwork permit me outright opportunity to tweak my note-taking freedom. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** No, dislike for paperwork best application for Notetaking. **Recommendations to others considering Paperwork:** Yes, easy to use software that can help your employees to be active because with paperwork user can take notes as well that can help individual to take notes in the meeting/discussion and also in training. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** using it for taking notes it help me save time and I don't have to use stick notes paper on my table to remember think. great application for taking notes, without agonizing over unapproved outsider access or depending on outsider associations to protect my own information. ### 2. Paperwork’s keeps me in control of my notes. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario R. | Software engineer., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** I like that Paperwork is open source and thus I use it for free.I like the fact that as a PAperwork user,I have got total control over personal data saved on the program,since it is self-hosted.In contrast to close substitute Google Keep,Paperwork allow me absolute freedom to customize my note-taking environment and the user interface is super intuitive. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** The unavailability of a mobile app. Is the only shortcoming I can associate with Paperwork. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** Paperwork makes it very easy to save my personal notes and schedules in real time,without worrying about unauthorized third party access or relying on third party organizations to keep my personal data safe. ### 3. Note Taking Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** The reason why I use Paperwork is because of the note taking feature. I am someone who attends a lot of lectures and therefore I need to use a lot of notes. I use Paperwork and I think I like the clutter free interface and it is very intuitive. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** One feature that I dislike in Paperwork is that the functionality aspect seems to be overlooked. I believe that adding a little bit more features would make it awesome. Paperwork has a lot of rivals and almost all of them have a lots of features compared to Paperwork **Recommendations to others considering Paperwork:** I would highly suggest everyone to go ahead with paperwork and it is the best note taking software out there in the market. Clutter free interface,intuitive makes it easier to use and I highly recommend it. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** For me the no 1 business problem is that since I tend to do a lot of multiasking, I tend to forgot what needs to be done for a particular task. Paperwork helps me jot down my notes in an orderly fashion and I never loose sight of them. ### 4. Note taking application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** Customization options, easy interface, easy access and taking notes on the go. Multiple storage backup. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** Have to pay premium for extra storage. The support is not that great. I could not attach large files. Everything needs to be stored on the cloud for security reasons. The price might seem high for company that just looking for a note taking tool. **Recommendations to others considering Paperwork:** Read more review and see if the product will meet your needs and needs of your company. It is a pretty nice tool to have but there are lots of other options and products up there. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Paperwork allows us to customize and take notes on the go. Retrieval and access are pretty easy. We do not need much storage at this time, but I see how this can be a problem for others. ### 5. Great product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** This makes note taking so much easier and faster than other tools that I have used in the past for note taking. It does a great job of organizing my notes and making them easy to access later on when I need them. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** Sometimes I have trouble sorting some of the notes that I take. I would love a quick way to search through some of my past notes with keywords so that I can find what I need in a very quick manner. That would make this product so fantastic to use. **Recommendations to others considering Paperwork:** Title your notes from the beginning. It will help organize your notes later on and make them so much easier to access and sort through. Save your notes in multiple places as backups. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to save thoughts and ideas ### 6. Eliminates my post it habit! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** Wonderful to take notes with and keep them separate and organized. It has eliminated my constant attachment to Post It notes everywhere. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** My boss and I have no issues or complaints about it. He seems to be very happy with it! **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** Office Organization! We can all Keep our notes in one place without having to go onto separate computers or find the notebooks lying around. ### 7. Paperwork works like a charm **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** Simple to use, I like the interface better than other similar software. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** Sometimes it takes a little while to start up. **Recommendations to others considering Paperwork:** Compare a few different ones and see which you like best. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** Note taking when we don't want to use physical paper or when there is none readily available. ### 8. User Interface **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nadia C. | Project Manager, Management Consulting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2018 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** It is easy to use . The user interface is is clean and the lay out is simple. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** It does not let you attach large files. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** Paperwork provides the easiness of the tool, like Evernote. ### 9. Capable note-taking application that lets you maintain control of your data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark B. | Security Consultant, Computer & Network Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** For note-taking, Paperwork is a good alternative to Evernote or similar products. Most users will feel comfortable with the clean, friendly, and full-featured editing interface. Having control over your data and the ability to customize the application and user interface if necessary is a big plus. Of course, self-hosting means you have as much space as you need without having to pay for a premium account. Although other services such as Evernote, OneNote, or Google Keep might have more advanced features, most of those I rarely use--I usually just need plain notes. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** Paperwork lacks built-in encryption for notes, although self-hosting does prevent having to rely on a third party to keep your data private. Self-hosting means maintaining a server and keeping it online. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** Paperwork solves the risks of storing sensitive notes with a third party provider. Keeping my own data on-site means I have full control. ### 10. I actually don't understand why I need a self-hosted note-taking system... **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jian L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** This is the first open-source note-taking system. I think the setup is easy for university students. Current, it use webpage as front-end which I can use it on every platform. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** I cannot see anything that this system is better than Evernote or OneNote. I need put all my notes on Cloud so that I could keep them safely. And lots of note-taking functions are not supported in this Paperwork. **Recommendations to others considering Paperwork:** I think currently Paperwork is still under-developing. After more and more good features added, I would try it again. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a student, I need a system could help keep my notes efficiently. But I think currently Paperwork is useless for me. ### 11. Easy to Use Note Taking Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David L. | Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** The interface is clean and well designed. The user experience of notebooks is easy to understand and a great way to organize notes. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** Setup can be awkward if you are not familiar with Linux systems. You have to do some manual building with gradle and the documentation was not perfect. Also there is no quick way to just take a note to organize later. You have to complete multiple clicks to open a note. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a great open source solution to note taking, and an extremely great ### 12. great idea, but too early to use in production **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** it's open source and looks very promising. i like the idea behind it: i use note apps to store nearly my completely brain. all minutes from meetings, interesting articles,... therefore saving all this in an opensource app which i can host and controll myself is a very good idea. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** when i tried the product it was way to early to use. i know it is still in development but it could never compete with evernote/onenote. and as a bussy man with many notes i had to use a solution which just worked. and evernote does all that. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** as said, i just wanted a knowledge-management-note-taking-system which i could host for myself and control and easy add add-ons or change things how i like them. ### 13. An excellent option for any company **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos 👔 S. | Systems Developer & administrator, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** Simple, flexible, and fast. Unlike other note-taking solutions, Paperwork is extremely simple, making it easy to work extensively with multiple clients, jot down ideas, write quickly, or use as a knowledge base. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** The facility would have to improve a little, it is a bit complicated. **Recommendations to others considering Paperwork:** Theme configuration. Notes tree, i.e., a note can navigate to another or from one section to another, allowing you to create complete working procedures, such as a decision tree. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** Knowledgebase, information transmission, shared notes, transfer of knowledge. ### 14. Good enough to play around with it **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lorenzo S. | Senior Software Developer, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Paperwork?** The fact that it is opensource, and considering easy deployment. **What do you dislike about Paperwork?** The fact that is hard to use, and the support is not really useful. At the moment I prefer really more Apple's Note for this purpose. **What problems is Paperwork solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have noticed that there are not much problem solving since it is the same thing as other projects. ## Paperwork Discussions - [What should I look for in a document management software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-should-i-look-for-in-a-document-management-software) - [What does document management software do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/paperwork-what-does-document-management-software-do) - [What are the features of digital documentation?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-features-of-digital-documentation) - [View Paperwork pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/paperwork/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-24+22%3A59%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7b92d573-86e0-4c7c-a665-7a06232aabcf&secure%5Btoken%5D=3d426a71a7911ca0dec33abd2f6b5bc5c1b1f57f25c8aec950e240516c6aa04c&format=llm_user) ## Paperwork Features **Agentic AI - Note-Taking Software** - Autonomous Task Execution ## Top Paperwork Alternatives - [Evernote](https://www.g2.com/products/evernote/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (2,009 reviews) - [Microsoft OneNote](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-onenote/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,820 reviews) - [Notion](https://www.g2.com/products/notion/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (10,994 reviews)