Comparison

Clippo vs PaperTrail

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Clippo

Effortlessly manage and share text, images, and links across your Mac and iOS devices. This app automatically syncs and categorizes your copied content, offering smart contextual actions for quick access and use.

Highlights
  • Cross-device clip syncing
  • Automatic content categorization
  • Smart contextual actions
  • iCloud support
  • Quick Actions, Peek and Pop integration
  • Spotlight integration
Features
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Copy text, links and images in any app and Clippo saves them automatically. Your history syncs through iCloud, so a snippet you copy on your iPhone is waiting on your Mac and iPad. ONE APP, EVERY DEVICE Universal by design: iPhone, iPad and Mac, native on each. Buy once and own it everywhere — forever. FIND ANYTHING, FAST Powerful fuzzy search across your whole history. Clippo even reads the text inside your images, so you can find that screenshot by what it says. SMART ACTIONS Clippo understands your clips. One tap to open a link in Safari, call a number, show an address in Maps, or play a song in Music. STAY ORGANIZED Pin your favorites, group clips with colorful tags, and filter in a tap. A Trash keeps deleted clips recoverable, just in case. PASTE ANYWHERE (MAC) Press ⇧⌘V from any app to pop up the quick picker, search, and paste straight into whatever you're doing. WIDGETS & SPOTLIGHT Reach your recent and pinned clips from the Home Screen and Notification Center, and find them system-wide with Spotlight. PRIVACY FIRST Clippo captures only what you choose. Sensitive content from password managers is ignored, and you can pause capture anytime. Your data lives in your own iCloud — no accounts, no tracking. FREE TO START, PRO WHEN YOU NEED IT Use Clippo for free with local history, copy, pin and quick search. Unlock PRO once to add cross-device sync, unlimited and image search, tags, Trash, the quick paste picker and more — a single purchase, no subscription, shared across all your devices.

About

PaperTrail

Features
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Give your paperwork a place. PaperTrail brings receipts, warranties, reference documents and the details behind them into a private workspace for iPhone and iPad. Build a Trail around a purchase, a project or a part of your life, then keep its documents, notes and next actions together. CAPTURE AND FIND Scan multiple pages with your camera, choose photos, import files or use Save to PaperTrail from another app. Keep original PDFs and images intact, then search their text with on-device text recognition. REVIEW THE DETAILS Check suggested merchants, dates, totals and currencies against the original. Suggestions stay unconfirmed until you review them, and extracted dates never create reminders automatically. CONNECT YOUR PAPERWORK Organize Trails into collections, add tags and notes, and link one document to several Trails without duplicating its original. Use Inbox to find documents that need attention and Upcoming to see your next actions. REMEMBER WHAT COMES NEXT Add your own deadlines and enable optional local reminders. Notification details are private by default. Actions remain available in the app if you decline notification permission. MAKE A USEFUL PDF PACKET Select documents, arrange their order and add an optional cover and summary. Preview the finished PDF, then share it when you need to send a repair history, purchase record or project packet. KEEP CONTROL OF YOUR LIBRARY Use optional Face ID, Touch ID or device-passcode authentication. PaperTrail hides document content when inactive and preserves deleted documents in Trash until you choose permanent deletion. Your library is stored on this device, with no PaperTrail account, advertising, analytics SDK or cloud AI. PaperTrail is free, with no subscriptions or in-app purchases. BACK UP AND MOVE DELIBERATELY Export a manual backup to keep a recovery copy or transfer your library to another device. Library files are excluded from automatic device backups, including iCloud Backup, so keep a manual backup somewhere safe. There is no automatic sync between iPhone and iPad. Manual backups are not password-protected. Shared files and copies saved to cloud providers are outside PaperTrail's app lock. Restore validates a backup before replacing the current library; it does not merge libraries. Start with your own documents or explore the optional, clearly labeled sample library in Settings. Requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. Camera scanning requires a supported device. Supports PDF, JPEG, PNG, HEIC/HEIF and TIFF originals up to 100 MB each. Manual backups support libraries up to 1 GB.

Screenshots

Clippo4 screens
PaperTrail4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PaperTrail at none against Clippo's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clippo sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. PaperTrail asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Clippo versus PaperTrail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClippoPaperTrail
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElisa Valeria DistefanoChristopher Kirkland

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Clippo

One-time2
  • Clippo PRO$3.99
  • Clippo PRO$6.99
None

PaperTrail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clippo free?
Clippo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PaperTrail free?
PaperTrail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clippo or PaperTrail have ads?
Neither Clippo nor PaperTrail shows ads.

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