Comparison

Plain Paste vs Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard

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 'Em + Paste Keyboard

This app enhances your copy and paste functionality by allowing you to save, manage, and sync various types of content, including text, links, and images. It offers a quick capture feature, a clipboard manager, and advanced paste options for efficient data handling. Organize your saved items into lists and access them across devices with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Quickly save copied items
  • Clipboard manager for easy reuse
  • Paste keyboard for instant data insertion
  • Advanced paste options (formatting removal, case change)
  • Organize content into lists
  • Optional iCloud sync across devices
  • Customizable shortcuts
Features
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Power up your copy and paste experience with Copy 'Em! Save, manage, and sync web links, text, images, PDFs, photos, videos, color codes, and more—all effortlessly in one easy-to-use app. Key Features: • Quick Capture: Found something interesting online or elsewhere? Save it instantly before it's gone. • Clipboard Manager: Save your copied items for easy reuse. No more endless searching for what you copied earlier. • Paste Keyboard: Instantly paste data without retyping. Need to paste that email address you use all the time? It's just a tap away. • Advanced Paste Options: Automatically remove formatting, change case, strip whitespaces, and more. • Multi-functional: Scan documents, take quick notes, draw pictures, mark up PDFs, and more—all in one app. • Efficient Organization: Create lists and rearrange items with ease. Find what you need quickly and effortlessly. • Privacy: Your data stays on your device and doesn't go anywhere without your permission. • Optional Sync: Easily access your data across devices with iCloud. Your data remains private. (Also syncs with Copy 'Em for Mac.) • Powerful Shortcuts: Save time with customizable shortcuts. Make Copy 'Em work the way you work, with shortcuts that fit your style. Copy 'Em makes it much easier to save, copy and paste, organize, use, and sync your data. Experience efficiency like never before! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://apprywhere.com/ce-privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Plain Paste4 screens
Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plain Paste at none against Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard's 1. Plain Paste also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard's advantage is ratings volume (143 vs 4). 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. Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Plain Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plain Paste holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard has 143 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 'Em + Paste Keyboard's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Plain Paste versus Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlain PasteCopy 'Em + Paste Keyboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.7 (143 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better77.5% of reviews
Number of ratings4143 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjakechasan.comHoi Chang

Customer experience

Plain Paste

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

Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard

All ratings136 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Plain Paste free?
Plain Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard free?
Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plain Paste or Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard?
Plain Paste is rated higher. Plain Paste averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard averages 4.7 from 143 ratings.
Do Plain Paste or Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard have ads?
Neither Plain Paste nor Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard shows ads.

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