Plain Paste vs Copy Better
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.
Copy Better
This app provides an extended clipboard to store and manage all your copied content. Easily add, edit, and organize text, formatted text, and images into folders. Access your clips quickly through widgets, a custom keyboard, or Siri shortcuts.
- Store text, formatted text, and images
- Organize clips into folders
- Mark clips as favorites
- Home screen widgets for quick access
- Custom keyboard for fast pasting
- Siri shortcuts integration
- Share extension for saving clips
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Copy Better keeps all the things you need to copy and paste in one place, available at a simple tap. • Add clips from the system clipboard, edit them, and create new ones directly in the app. Your clips can be plain text, formatted text, and/or images. • Create folders to organize your clips, and mark important ones as favorites. • Add the Favorites and Folders widgets to your home screen for easy access. • Use the Copy Better keyboard to paste your clips quickly in other apps. • Configure Siri shortcuts to create and paste clips anywhere. • Use the Share extension to save new clips from websites, Photos, or anywhere else with shareable content.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Plain Paste at 5.0 against Copy Better's 4.3. Plain Paste also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Copy Better's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plain Paste holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Copy Better has 39 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 78% of Copy Better's.
| Parameter | Plain Paste | Copy Better |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.3 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jakechasan.com | William Wu |
Customer experience
Plain Paste
Copy Better
In-app purchases
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases
Copy Better
No in-app purchases
Questions
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