Comparison

Plain Paste vs EZText

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

EZText

This app is a versatile text editor for viewing and editing various file types, including plain text, RTF, HTML, and markdown. It offers rich formatting options, live previews for web content, and robust editing tools like search and replace, undo/redo, and style copying. Easily manage files across cloud services and export to PDF.

Highlights
  • Edit any text file
  • Rich text formatting
  • Live HTML/markdown preview
  • Search and replace
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Export to PDF
  • Dark mode support
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A free simple text editor for viewing and editing any kind of text file, including TXT, RTF, RTFD, HTML, XML, markdown, and more. For files like RTF and RTFD, EZText displays them fully formatted and lets you edit all the style information, such as font, point size, color, and paragraph alignment. You can even view the raw RTF text and edit that directly. For HTML and markdown, you can view a live preview as you edit. Features: - Edit any text file on your device, in iCloud, or in other cloud services (such as DropBox) that appear in the Files app - Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript - Text foreground and background color - Paragraph alignment - Line & paragraph spacing - Bulleted lists - Copy & paste text style and paragraph style - Search and replace text - Undo and redo - Create plain text file, rich text files (RTF), rich text with graphics (RTFD), HTML, and markdown files - View and edit the raw text for files that supports text style - Live previews of HTLM and markdown - Export to PDF - Convert between plain text, RTF, and RTFD - Print - Supports multitasking on iPad - Dark mode support

Screenshots

Plain Paste4 screens
EZText4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Plain Paste at 5.0 against EZText's 4.2. Plain Paste also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and device support (4 vs 2). EZText's advantage is ratings volume (27 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 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EZText has 27 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 EZText's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Plain Paste versus EZText: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlain PasteEZText
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.2 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better78.0% of reviews
Number of ratings427 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjakechasan.comMark Krenek

Customer experience

Plain Paste

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

EZText

All ratings26 ratings
Positive80.8%
Neutral3.8%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral4.9%
Negative17.1%

In-app purchases

None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

None

EZText

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plain Paste free?
Plain Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EZText free?
EZText is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plain Paste or EZText?
Plain Paste is rated higher. Plain Paste averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while EZText averages 4.2 from 27 ratings.
Do Plain Paste or EZText have ads?
Neither Plain Paste nor EZText shows ads.

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