Comparison

Clipboard Manager vs Auto Paste

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

Head to head
About

Clipboard Manager

This app enhances productivity by managing your clipboard history across iOS and macOS. It offers features like iCloud sync, biometric protection, and organization into categories. Easily access and recover clips, with support for images, files, and text transformations.

Highlights
  • Background clipboard monitoring
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Organize clips into categories
  • Biometric protection for sensitive clips
  • Trash folder for deleted clips
  • Quick access via widgets and shortcuts
  • Supports images and files
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Introducing Pycopaste, the ultimate clipboard manager for iOS and macOS, designed to enhance your productivity by streamlining your copying and pasting experience. Pycopaste offers a wide range of features that make managing your clips effortless and efficient. Key Features: - Background Clipboard Monitoring: Pycopaste intelligently tracks your clipboard activity via PiP, ensuring that all copied content is securely saved and available for future use. - iCloud Sync: Keep your clips in sync across all your iOS and macOS devices using iCloud, so you can access your clipboard history anytime, anywhere. - Categories Management: Organize your clips into customizable categories for seamless retrieval and a clutter-free workspace. - Biometric Protection: Secure your sensitive clips with biometric authentication, including Face ID and Touch ID, for top-notch privacy. - Thrash Support: Accidentally deleted a clip? No worries! Pycopaste features a trash folder where you can easily recover your deleted clips. - Quick Access from Widgets: Access your most used clips and categories directly from your home screen, thanks to Pycopaste's handy widgets. - Link Previews: Get a quick glimpse of your copied URLs with link previews, making it easier to identify and manage your saved links. - Searchable Clips in Spotlight: Find your clips instantly by searching them directly within Spotlight. - Access Clips from Shortcuts: Integrate Pycopaste with iOS shortcuts for even faster access to your clips. - Add Clips from Share Sheet: Easily add clips to Pycopaste from any app using the Share Sheet, streamlining your content-saving process. - Blacklisted Words: Ignore specific clips containing blacklisted words, ensuring irrelevant or sensitive content stays out of your clipboard history. - Images and Files Uploads: Pycopaste supports more than just text! Save images and files directly to your clipboard history for easy access. - Text Transformations: Quickly apply manipulations like lowercase, uppercase, remove line breaks to textual data inside Pycopaste - Customizable Clip History Duration: Tailor your clipboard history retention settings to suit your preferences, from purging clips after a few days to keeping them indefinitely. - Dedicated Native Mac Clipper: Pycopaste also comes with a macOS companion app, offering a seamless clipboard management experience across your Apple devices. Upgrade your copy-pasting game with Pycopaste, the comprehensive clipboard manager for iOS and macOS that makes your daily tasks simpler and more efficient. Download Pycopaste now and unlock your productivity potential! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pycopaste.foxfortmobile.com/privacy_policy

About

Auto Paste

Streamline content sharing and keyboard usage on your iOS device. Quickly paste photos, links, files, or text phrases directly from your custom keyboard shortcuts. Organize your shortcuts into categories for efficient access.

Highlights
  • Paste photos, links, files, text
  • Custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Organize shortcuts by category
  • Integrate with Siri Shortcuts
  • Compatible with all iOS devices
Features
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At Pastebot, our mission is to revolutionize how we share content and use the keyboard on our iOS devices. Pastebot Keyboard enhances your iOS experience with innovative Pastebot Keyboard Shortcuts, transforming how you interact with your device. Features: • Share photos, links, files, or text phrases directly from your keyboard with Pastebot Keyboard Shortcuts. • Create categories to organize your keyboard shortcuts. • Integrate Pastebot into Siri Shortcuts for enhanced productivity. • Pastebot is compatible with all iOS devices. Access Pastebot's Keyboard by tapping the globe icon on the bottom left of your keyboard. Here, you'll find all your custom shortcuts. Tap on any shortcut to use it instantly. https://andremartingo.github.io/keyboard-web/termsofservice.html https://andremartingo.github.io/keyboard-web/privacypolicy.html

Screenshots

Clipboard Manager4 screens
Auto Paste4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Clipboard Manager at 4.4 against Auto Paste's 1.0. Clipboard Manager also leads on ratings volume (70 vs 1). Auto Paste's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Clipboard Manager sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. Auto Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clipboard Manager holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clipboard Manager has 70 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clipboard Manager ships an update monthly, Auto Paste every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Clipboard Manager versus Auto Paste: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClipboard ManagerAuto Paste
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (70 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings70 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFoxfortMobileHAPPYPIXEL

Customer experience

Clipboard Manager

All ratings70 ratings
Positive81.4%
Neutral11.4%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%

Auto Paste

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Clipboard Manager

Subscriptions6
  • Pycopaste Monthly$2.001 Month
  • Pycopaste Monthly 3$3.991 Month
  • Pycopaste Pro Monthly$4.001 Month
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  • Pycopaste Yearly$8.991 Year
  • Pycopaste Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
  • Pycopaste Yearly 3$24.001 Year
One-time5
  • Pycopaste Lifetime$12.00
  • Pycopaste Lifetime 2$15.00
  • Pycopaste Lifetime$25.00
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  • Pycopaste Pro Lifetime$30.00
  • Pycopaste Lifetime 5$35.00
None

Auto Paste

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clipboard Manager free?
Clipboard Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Auto Paste free?
Auto Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clipboard Manager or Auto Paste?
Clipboard Manager is rated higher. Clipboard Manager averages 4.4 out of 5 from 70 ratings, while Auto Paste averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Clipboard Manager or Auto Paste have ads?
Neither Clipboard Manager nor Auto Paste shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clipboard Manager or Auto Paste?
Clipboard Manager ships an update monthly, and Auto Paste every 2 days. Most recently, Clipboard Manager was updated on October 23, 2026 and Auto Paste on October 11, 2026.

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