Comparison

Clip Keyboard vs Starling

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

Head to head
About

Clip Keyboard

Save and quickly insert frequently used text like addresses, account numbers, and email greetings. It offers templates, secure snippet storage, and smart clipboard organization. Features text recognition from images and iCloud backup for your saved content.

Highlights
  • Save and insert text snippets with one tap
  • Create templates with fillable blanks
  • Organize multiple values in stacks
  • Secure sensitive snippets with Face ID
  • Smart clipboard sorts copied text
  • Extract text from images
  • iCloud backup for all saved data
Features
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Stop typing the same thing over and over. Save it once, then it is one tap. Keep the account numbers, addresses, introductions and email openers you reuse as snippets. In Messages, Mail, Safari, anywhere you can type, switch to ClipKeyboard, tap once, and the text lands in the field. What it does Snippets: what you saved goes in exactly as it is. One tap. Templates: leave the parts that change as blanks, then fill them from values you already saved. Stacks: keep several values in one place and send them in order, or switch between them with the arrow. Secure snippets: lock passport and card numbers behind Face ID and open them only when you need them. Smart clipboard: what you copy is sorted for you. It recognizes emails, phone numbers, addresses, card numbers and IBANs, so you find them again in a second. Text recognition: photograph a card or a document, swipe over the part you want, and only that text becomes a value. iCloud backup: it survives a new phone, image snippets included. Please know this first It is now a full keyboard too, with iPhone-style keys in 23 languages and your snippets on the same keyboard. Prefer the keyboard you already use? Keep it: after a snippet goes in, ClipKeyboard switches back to it, and you can turn that off. For Japanese and Chinese, conversion to kanji is not available yet. Privacy What you write stays on your device. If you turn on iCloud backup, it is stored encrypted in your own iCloud. We do not collect the contents of your snippets and we use no third-party analytics. Free and Pro Every feature is free until you have inserted snippets 100 times. After that, everything you made keeps working; the free limits apply only to new items. Pro removes every limit, as a one-time purchase or a yearly subscription. Works on iPhone and iPad. Available in English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Russian, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish, Czech, Greek, Turkish, Indonesian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Thai and Vietnamese. Contact: leeo@kakao.com User guide: https://m1zz.github.io/ClipKeyboard/tutorial.html?lang=en Terms of Use: https://m1zz.github.io/ClipKeyboard/terms.html?lang=en

About

Starling

Features
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Your kid runs the routine. Not you. Starling turns the fridge chart into something your child actually operates themselves. Every step is a picture first and a word second, so a five-year-old who can't read yet can get through the morning without being asked forty times. You set it up once. It repeats on the days you choose. There's no daily data entry, no account, and nothing leaves your phone. HOW IT WORKS • Add your child — a name, a colour, a character • Pick a starter routine, or build your own • Your child taps through one step at a time • A finished routine earns a star • Stars buy real rewards you decide on BUILT FOR THE WAY CHILDREN ACTUALLY WORK One step, full screen. No lists to parse, no wall of text, no way to get lost. Tap it when it's done and the next one arrives. Older children can switch to a checklist view instead. NO FAILURE STATES. EVER. Nothing turns red. Nothing scolds. A routine that doesn't get finished is simply unfinished — there's no streak to lose and no red X waiting in the morning. That's a deliberate design decision. Many of the children who need a visual schedule most already experience routines as a place where they fail. MADE WITH NEURODIVERGENT KIDS IN MIND Visual schedules are an evidence-based practice, widely recommended for autistic and ADHD children — and useful for any child who isn't reading yet. • Every step is understandable without reading its label • Timers are optional, per step, and never punish • Full VoiceOver support and Dynamic Type • Reduce Motion honoured throughout • A reward-free mode, free forever ON THE HOME SCREEN A widget shows the next step and lets your child tick it off without even opening the app. Free on every plan, because that's the bit that makes the habit stick. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No email. No ads. No analytics on children. No third-party tracking of any kind. Your data lives on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud, between your own devices. We have no server, so there is nothing for us to see. WHAT'S FREE One child, one routine, six steps, one reward — plus widgets, iCloud sync, every accessibility feature and reward-free mode, free forever. STARLING PLUS Unlimited children, routines and steps. A full reward menu. Photos of your own things as step pictures. The weekly view, and printable charts for the fridge. $4.99/month, $29.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $49.99 once for lifetime access. Family Sharing on all three. If a subscription lapses, you go back to the free tier — you never lose a single day of your child's history. Made by one person, in the evenings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://culi.app/apps/starling/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Clip Keyboard4 screens
Starling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Clip Keyboard at every 3 days against Starling's every 6 weeks. Starling's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clip Keyboard sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and Starling sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clip Keyboard ships an update every 3 days, Starling every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Clip Keyboard versus Starling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClip KeyboardStarling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerhyunho leeRene Fandida

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Clip Keyboard

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Yearly1 Year trial$4.991 Year
  • Forever Pass Yearly$34.991 Year
One-time8
  • small tip$0.99
  • medium tip$2.99
  • large tip$9.99
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  • gift$9.99
  • 클립키보드 Pro$9.99
  • ClipKeyboard Pro Lifetime$18.99
  • Forever Pass for Pro Owners$79.99
  • Forever Pass$99.99
3 purchases

Starling

Subscriptions2
  • Starling Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Starling Plus Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Starling Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Clip Keyboard free?
Clip Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Starling free?
Starling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clip Keyboard or Starling have ads?
Neither Clip Keyboard nor Starling shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clip Keyboard or Starling?
Clip Keyboard ships an update every 3 days, and Starling every 6 weeks. Most recently, Clip Keyboard was updated on November 3, 2026 and Starling on October 31, 2026.

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