Comparison

Bluetooth Sleuth vs Plain Paste

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bluetooth Sleuth

This utility allows users to deeply interact with their device's Bluetooth capabilities. It supports scanning for peripherals, advertising custom services, broadcasting and ranging iBeacons, and searching a comprehensive Bluetooth database.

Highlights
  • Configure custom Bluetooth advertisements
  • Scan for specific or all advertising devices
  • Connect to and browse peripheral services
  • Broadcast and range iBeacons
  • Search Bluetooth assigned numbers database
  • Monitor RSSI values with graphing
Features
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Bluetooth Sleuth is meant to be a well rounded app for interacting with your iOS or supported macOS device's Bluetooth functionality. This includes advertising and scanning for peripherals, as well as broadcasting, monitoring, and ranging iBeacons. The following covers some of the features included in Bluetooth Sleuth: [ADVERTISE] - Ability to configure an advertisement with your device - Create custom services, with their own characteristics and descriptors to advertise - Automatically saves custom services for later reuse [SCAN] - Ability to scan for all advertising devices within range - Ability to scan for specific advertisements that contain the provided CoreBluetooth UUID - Displays all peripherals, sorted by RSSI, with the ability to connect to devices that are open to connections - Browse a peripheral's services, characteristics, and descriptors - Monitor recent peripheral RSSI values with included graphing tools - Ability to automatically reconnect to a previously connected peripheral - Filter results to require names, ability to connect or minimum RSSI value [SEARCH] - Search through over 5,000 records in the Bluetooth database of assigned numbers for companies, services, characteristics and other related values [BROADCAST] - Configure your device to act as an iBeacon by providing it with a UUID, and optional major and minor values [RANGE] - Observe for the presence of any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide - See device information for any iBeacons located - Monitor recent iBeacon RSSI values with included graphing tools [MONITOR] - Observe region updates for any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide

About

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.

Highlights
  • Remove rich text formatting
  • Copy clean plain text
  • Clipboard history (up to 100 items)
  • Disable clipboard history
  • Private by design, local storage
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Bluetooth Sleuth4 screens
Plain Paste4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Plain Paste at Free against Bluetooth Sleuth's $0.99. Plain Paste also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Plain Paste is free to download; Bluetooth Sleuth costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bluetooth Sleuth against 5.0 for Plain Paste. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bluetooth Sleuth ships an update every 2 months, Plain Paste every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bluetooth Sleuth versus Plain Paste: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBluetooth SleuthPlain Paste
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSean McNeilAndreas Ekegren

Customer experience

Bluetooth Sleuth

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Plain Paste

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bluetooth Sleuth

No in-app purchases

None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bluetooth Sleuth free?
Bluetooth Sleuth costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plain Paste free?
Plain Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bluetooth Sleuth or Plain Paste?
Bluetooth Sleuth and Plain Paste are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Bluetooth Sleuth or Plain Paste have ads?
Neither Bluetooth Sleuth nor Plain Paste shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bluetooth Sleuth or Plain Paste?
Bluetooth Sleuth ships an update every 2 months, and Plain Paste every 4 weeks. Most recently, Bluetooth Sleuth was updated on September 30, 2026 and Plain Paste on September 20, 2026.

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