Plain Paste vs Lightweight Text Editor
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.
Lightweight Text Editor
This app allows users to work with plain text files without formatting concerns. It can open any text file, create folders for organization, and adjust encoding and line endings.
- Open any plain text file
- Create folders for organization
- Change text encoding
- Adjust line endings (CR/LF/CRLF)
- No formatting concerns
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Lightweight Text Editor is a great tool for users who work with plain text files. If you want to work with raw text without having to worry about formatting, then this app is for you. It can open any plain text file, regardless of the extension. You can create folders to organize your documents. You can also change the encoding and the line endings (CR/LF/CRLF).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Plain Paste at Free against Lightweight Text Editor's $2.99. Plain Paste also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Lightweight Text Editor's advantage is ratings volume (58 vs 4). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Plain Paste is free to download; Lightweight Text Editor costs $2.99 up front. 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: Lightweight Text Editor has 58 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 82% of Lightweight Text Editor's.
| Parameter | Plain Paste | Lightweight Text Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.3 (58 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 82.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 58 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 26 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jakechasan.com | Erik Wegener |
Customer experience
Plain Paste
Lightweight Text Editor
In-app purchases
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases
Lightweight Text Editor
No in-app purchases
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