Plain Paste vs QuickPaste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plain Paste
This app helps manage your clipboard across devices, ensuring consistent text formatting when copying and pasting. It streamlines workflows by stripping unwanted styles, allowing for uniform presentation of copied content.
- Cross-device clipboard management
- Strips text formatting
- Clears clipboard content
- Menu bar integration
- Streamlines word processing
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Plain Paste is the one app to manage your clipboard across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Tired of mismatched fonts, colors, and sizes when copying text from one program to another? Plain Paste will streamline your word processing workflow: copy, click, paste. Always one click away, Plain Paste is ready to strip the formatting from your clipboard or clear it entirely. Simply copy text in any format to the clipboard, click on the scissor icon in the menu bar, and the next time you paste, all of the formatting will look the same.
QuickPaste
This app enhances your device's clipboard functionality by allowing you to easily copy and paste text snippets. Organize your notes with folders, combine multiple notes into one paste, and sync them across your devices. It also offers security features and convenient extensions for widgets and keyboards.
- Copy and paste text snippets
- Organize notes with folders
- Concatenate multiple notes for pasting
- Sync notes across devices via iCloud
- Widget and keyboard extensions
- Passcode and biometric security
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** Easy to copy Tapping a note, it copy to pasteboard. You can use the text for other apps. ** Organize notes with folders You can classify notes by folder for each purpose. ** Concatenation copy Selecting some notes, it concat them and copy. ** Sync notes across devices All folders and notes are syncing across your devices automatically using iCloud. ** Protect your data Passcode setting and authentication by Touch ID / Face ID are also possible. Security measures are also thorough.(Requires an additional add-on purchase) ** Widget extension Copy quickly from Widgets ** Keyboard extension Installing keyboard extension, you can use Snippets directly on other apps. ** Share extension You can save a note to QuickPaste from share panel everywhere. ** Add-on Folders: 2 -> Unlimited Ad banner: Show -> Hide Passcode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Plain Paste at 5.0 against QuickPaste's 4.5. Plain Paste also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). QuickPaste's advantage is ratings volume (92 vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.5). On price and device support 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
Both are free to download. QuickPaste sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plain Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.
Plain Paste holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QuickPaste has 92 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Plain Paste's written reviews are positive against 77% of QuickPaste's.
| Parameter | Plain Paste | QuickPaste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.5 (92 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 77.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 92 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jakechasan.com | Toshitaka Agata |
Customer experience
Plain Paste
QuickPaste
In-app purchases
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases
QuickPaste
- Hide ads, Unlimited folders$4.99








