Your papers. Within reach.

ShowPapers brings your documents, useful details and notes together for appointments, trips and everyday life. Organize scans, PDFs and .showpapers collections, then find the right copy when it matters.

Bring your papers together
• Use the document scanner to capture a paper with your camera, or import PDFs and images from Files or Photos.
• Add more papers while earlier ones continue reading in the background.
• Open the saved original alongside suggested details. Check names, numbers and dates, then correct or confirm them.

Find it without the folder hunt
• Create folders for trips, appointments, school, work or family paperwork.
• Tag papers by person and keep related documents together.
• Pin the papers you use most and search your library when you need a particular document.
• Open a saved copy full screen when you need to show it.

Keep the plan with the paperwork
Write notes and checklists, link the relevant papers, and keep the next steps beside them. Prepare for a trip, make an appointment list or keep a record of what you have already checked. Add date reminders for renewals and other important dates; notifications need your permission and may be delayed by Android.

One collection. The whole picture.
Bring originals, useful details, notes and folders from different sources into one .showpapers collection. Open a collection prepared on another device or with a compatible tool, review its contents and add it to your library. Export selected papers and notes as a collection to share an appointment pack or family paperwork without sending each item separately.

You can also share original files on their own or protect a collection with a separate recovery key. Shared collections are copies; later edits do not sync automatically.

Read and write on your device
Text recognition (OCR) runs locally. On compatible devices, an optional on-device AI model helps extract details and write or refine notes. Installation downloads about 2.6 GB and needs internet and storage. Once installed, those AI features run on the device. Scanning, basic text recognition and document organization remain available without the model.

Reading time varies with the document and your device. You can keep organizing while papers are processed in the background. Always check extracted details and AI suggestions against your originals.

Choose what leaves your phone
Your library is stored encrypted on your device. No ShowPapers account is required. Enable App Lock with supported device authentication, and save an encrypted library backup with a separate recovery key. Keep the key somewhere safe; restoring a backup replaces the library on that device.

Ask an AI App is a separate sharing feature. Choose the papers and notes to include, review the sharing notice and send a copy to another app. If that app supports web research and creating compatible files, you can ask it to combine your selected papers with outside information and return a .showpapers collection for review and import. That app's data practices apply. ShowPapers does not upload your documents to a cloud AI service for its on-device reading or writing.

Usage analytics, diagnostics and advertising measurement have privacy controls in Settings. See the privacy policy for regional defaults and service details.

Available in English and Spanish, with light and dark appearances.

ShowPapers organizes reference copies. It is not a government service, does not certify documents or provide legal advice, and does not replace original documents you may need to carry.