ClipboardClear vs Plain Paste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ClipboardClear
This utility app automatically manages your device's clipboard. It offers options to delete or display clipboard contents upon startup and allows selective removal of text or images. It helps prevent sensitive information from being exposed.
- Automatic clipboard deletion
- Display clipboard contents
- Selective text/image deletion
- Startup execution options
- Delete specific clipboard items
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This application is "ClipboardClear" which deletes and displays the clipboard contents. You can choose between "Delete", "Show", and "None" for automatic execution at startup. On the screen, you can also delete only text or only images. If there are multiple items, you can also delete a specific item. I'd better be careful not to let anyone read the contents of my clipboard!
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 rating: Plain Paste at 5.0 against ClipboardClear's 4.0. Plain Paste also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). ClipboardClear's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. ClipboardClear sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plain Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.
Plain Paste holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
ClipboardClear ships an update monthly, Plain Paste every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ClipboardClear | Plain Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Atsushi Ezaki | Andreas Ekegren |
Customer experience
ClipboardClear
Plain Paste
In-app purchases
ClipboardClear
- Hide AD$1.99
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases
