Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard vs Copy Text On Screen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Copy Text On Screen
Extract text from any image or screen capture with powerful OCR technology. Translate recognized text into over 100 languages instantly. All processing is done locally on your device for maximum privacy and security.
- Extract text from images and screenshots
- Multilingual translation up to 100+ languages
- Supports Shortcuts for quick access
- Simultaneous scanning of up to 9 images
- Local on-device processing for privacy
- OCR support for multiple languages
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Copy Text On Screen: Unlock Text from Images Effortlessly Powerful OCR Technology at Your Fingertips: - Copy Text On Screen is the ultimate OCR tool designed exclusively for your iPhone. This powerful app allows you to effortlessly extract text from any image or screen capture, bypassing limitations of non-selectable and non-editable text. Whether it's a photo, a document, or an unselectable quote on a website, our app makes text extraction simple and efficient. Support for Shortcuts - Integrate with Shortcuts to add widgets on your home screen or in the Control Center for quicker text extraction. Effortless Multilingual Translation: - Go beyond mere text scanning. Translate recognized text into over 100 languages instantly. Our app seamlessly integrates with Google and DeepL translation services, facilitating global communication like never before. It’s perfect for travelers, students, and professionals handling international documents. Privacy First Commitment: - We prioritize your privacy. Copy Text On Screen ensures all processing is done locally on your device. No data is sent to servers, ensuring your information stays private and secure. More Features: - Simultaneously scan and recognize text from up to 9 images. - Easily extract text from any application by sharing a screenshot directly to our app. - Supports optical character recognition in multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese. - Running iOS 16: All the above languages plus Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, and Russian. - Running iOS 17: All the above languages plus Thai and Vietnamese. - Running iOS 18: All the above languages plus Arabic. - Running iOS 14: Only English language supported. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and auto-renewal at the same price unless disabled in iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your subscription can be managed in your iTunes Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. • Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/bb2014abc512439f8172d18af84b5c95 • Terms of Use: https://www.notion.so/3463ddd4a2c5478b96ac5f6290ee6d5f
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Copy Text On Screen at every 2 weeks against Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard's every 3 months. Copy Text On Screen also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 50%) and ratings volume (143 vs 3). 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
Both are free to download. Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and Copy Text On Screen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Copy Text On Screen 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 50% of Copy Text On Screen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard ships an update every 3 months, Copy Text On Screen every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard | Copy Text On Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (143 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 143 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hoi Chang | 满 李 |
Customer experience
Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard
Copy Text On Screen
Bugs and requests
Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard
Reported bugs
7 issues- Sync issues between devices
- Data disappearing, especially images
- Screen capture not working reliably
- Repeated crashes after latest update
- Keyboard and share sheet not functioning on iOS 14
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- Free-use limit issues where items don't appear but limit is reached
- Website inaccessible or blocked
Requested features
5 requests- Lifetime payment option
- Peer to peer sync (no internet or iCloud)
- Offer a one-time price instead of subscription
- Android support
- Search feature outside the app for the special keyboard function
Copy Text On Screen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Copy 'Em + Paste Keyboard
- Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$19.991 Year
Copy Text On Screen
- Upgrade to Pro - Annual3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Upgrade to Pro - Lifetime$19.99
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