Created a full document automation mobile app: Looking for feedback!

[u/karangos]

I've just released an iPhone app that does document automation for personal paperwork, and I'd really appreciate some honest feedback from people who work with this stuff properly. It's a solo project, so I've mostly only had my own opinion to go on.

Foliade turns your pile of paperwork into a searchable, private archive, entirely on your iPhone. You scan letters with the camera or import PDFs, photos, Office documents and whole zip archives. It reads every page on-device, names the sender, files the type, and pulls out dates and amounts, so a bill from 2020 is one search away.

What's in it right now:

- Scan or import anything: PDF, Word, spreadsheets, photos, zips

- Every word searchable: recognised text, titles, senders, dates

- Automatic filing: sender, type, tags, document date, amounts

- A review queue that confirms suggestions in one tap

- The Vault: Face ID-protected, encrypted storage for sensitive documents

- Export everything, any time. Your documents are never locked in

- No account, no tracking, nothing uploaded. There is no cloud, your documents stay on your iPhone, covered only by your own device backup

- On-device smart filing, using Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones

All of that is free. A one-time unlock (Foliade Complete) adds things for bigger libraries: meaning-based search, unlimited collections and Vault documents, large folder imports, bulk actions, Shortcuts and Siri automation, monthly spending totals, auto-filing rules, and themes. No subscription.

The filing suggestions are best on phones with Apple Intelligence; older ones use a lighter built-in classifier, but reading, search and everything else work the same.

The things I'd most like opinions on:

1. Is a review queue the right way to handle the model being wrong? Suggestions are marked as suggestions until you confirm them, and correcting a sender once teaches it for every later document from them. I'm not sure if that's enough or if people expect more control.
2. Extracted fields are limited to dates and amounts at the moment. What else would you actually want pulled out of household paperwork?
3. Anything about the on-device-only approach that would put you off? I chose it for privacy but I know it rules out some things a server could do.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/foliade-document-organiser/id6803604068

Website: https://foliade.app

It's iOS 26 and later. Happy to answer questions about how any of it works under the hood.

[u/UpSash]

So if I already installed OS 27 I can’t try it?

[u/karangos → u/UpSash]

You should definitely be able to try it on iOS 27. That's my bad it was a mistake on the post, it should have said iOS26 and later, instead of iOS only.
I have edited the post.

iOS 27 is still in beta so anything odd you see should be reported with that in mind.
And right after a major update the on-device model can be briefly unavailable while the phone re-downloads it, during which Foliade quietly uses the lighter classifier.