Comparison

Clipboard Manager vs PasteBox

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

PasteBox

This utility app provides a custom keyboard for quick text pasting. Save and organize frequently used phrases, captions, or codes for one-tap insertion into any application. It's designed for efficiency and convenience.

Highlights
  • Custom keyboard integration
  • One-tap text pasting
  • Save and organize text snippets
  • Color-coded tags for organization
  • Private and secure text saving
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PasteBox - Paste Keyboard is an easy, powerful custom keyboard app that lets you instantly paste your saved text anywhere, in any app, without switching screens. Stop retyping the same things over and over. Whether it’s your email, IG captions, promo codes, replies or yes, even trolling your friends with rapid copy paste messages. PasteBox makes it all effortless. Benefits: • Custom keyboard you can use inside any app • One-tap paste • Save and organize text snippets • Color-coded tags to stay organized • Crazy fast, perfect for business or just messing with friends • Fully private, nothing you type is ever tracked Use it for: • Emails & work replies • Social media captions, hashtags, and bios • Auto-fill forms & routine phrases • Fun copy paste messages to spam or troll your friends • Anything you’re tired of typing manually --- Subscriptions: PasteBox - Paste Keyboard offers auto-renewing subscription plans that provide unlimited access to all app features. - The weekly plan includes a 3-day free trial, after which the subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the trial period. – All subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period – Auto-renewal can be canceled at any time by going to your settings after the purchase Privacy Policy: https://www.crispyappsllc.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.crispyappsllc.com/terms

Screenshots

Clipboard Manager4 screens
PasteBox3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PasteBox at 5.0 against Clipboard Manager's 4.4. PasteBox also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Clipboard Manager's advantage is ratings volume (70 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clipboard Manager sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month and PasteBox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PasteBox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. 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, PasteBox every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Clipboard Manager versus PasteBox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClipboard ManagerPasteBox
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (70 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings70 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFoxfortMobileCrispyApps LLC

Customer experience

Clipboard Manager

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

PasteBox

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

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
Show 3 more
  • 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
Show 2 more
  • Pycopaste Pro Lifetime$30.00
  • Pycopaste Lifetime 5$35.00
3 purchases

PasteBox

Subscriptions3
  • PasteBox Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • PasteBox Monthly$5.991 Month
  • PasteBox Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Clipboard Manager free?
Clipboard Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PasteBox free?
PasteBox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clipboard Manager or PasteBox?
PasteBox is rated higher. Clipboard Manager averages 4.4 out of 5 from 70 ratings, while PasteBox averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Clipboard Manager or PasteBox have ads?
Neither Clipboard Manager nor PasteBox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clipboard Manager or PasteBox?
Clipboard Manager ships an update monthly, and PasteBox every 4 days. Most recently, Clipboard Manager was updated on October 23, 2026 and PasteBox on October 24, 2026.

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