Comparison

Plain Paste vs Copy Better

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Plain Paste4 screens
Copy Better4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Plain Paste versus Copy Better: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlain PasteCopy Better
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.3 (39 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better77.8% of reviews
Number of ratings439 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.514.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjakechasan.comWilliam Wu

Customer experience

Plain Paste

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Copy Better

All ratings39 ratings
Positive82.1%
Neutral5.1%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral6.7%
Negative15.6%

In-app purchases

None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

None

Copy Better

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plain Paste free?
Plain Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Copy Better free?
Copy Better is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plain Paste or Copy Better?
Plain Paste is rated higher. Plain Paste averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Copy Better averages 4.3 from 39 ratings.
Do Plain Paste or Copy Better have ads?
Neither Plain Paste nor Copy Better shows ads.

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