Dual up down timer vs Plain Paste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dual up down timer
This utility app provides a straightforward heat-up and cool-down timer. It features a simple interface and visual cues, with screen flashes indicating the end of each interval.
- Heat up and cool down timer
- Simple user interface
- Screen flash alerts
- Interval timing
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With a simple user interface users can quickly setup and use a heat up and cool down styled timer. The screen flashs black at the end of the heat up portion and white at the end of the cool down portion.
Plain Paste
This utility app removes formatting from copied text, providing a clean plain-text version for easier use. It offers clipboard history to access recent items and is designed with user privacy in mind, storing data locally.
- Remove rich text formatting
- Copy clean plain text
- Clipboard history (up to 100 items)
- Disable clipboard history
- Private by design, local storage
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Plain Paste makes copied text easier to use. Paste formatted text from websites, documents, emails, chats, or notes, and Plain Paste copies a clean plain-text version back to your clipboard. Made for everyday moments when bold text, links, fonts, colors, and hidden formatting get in the way. Features: • Remove formatting from rich text • Copy cleaned plain text back to your clipboard • Access and reuse up to 100 recent items in clipboard history • Turn clipboard history off whenever you want • Private by design: Plain Paste only reads and cleans text you explicitly paste into the app. Clipboard history is stored locally, can be cleared anytime, and never leaves your device. Plain Paste is a simple utility for everyone who writes, copies, pastes, cleans up notes, reuses text, or just wants text to behave.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Plain Paste at every 4 weeks against Dual up down timer's every 4 months. Plain Paste also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Dual up down timer's advantage is iOS requirement (11.2 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Dual up down timer ships an update every 4 months, Plain Paste every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dual up down timer | Plain Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RD Concepts | Andreas Ekegren |
Customer experience
Dual up down timer
Plain Paste
In-app purchases
Dual up down timer
No in-app purchases
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases
Questions
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