SimpleEditor HD vs Plain Text Paste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleEditor HD
This app offers a robust text editor with customizable colors, fonts, and encoding support. It also includes a file manager for organizing documents, with features like multi-level folders, renaming, copying, and cutting. Integrated translation and cloud storage simplify workflow.
- Customizable text colors and fonts
- Integrated Google Translator
- Multi-level folder management
- File renaming, copying, and cutting
- Support for multiple file formats
- Google Docs upload
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Features: Text Editor: 1. Change background and foreground color freely. 2. Supports various encoding. 3. Supports Large amount of fonts. 4. Google translator integrated for translating your text anytime. 5. Supports “Save”, “Save as” feature. 6. Email your files as attachment or content. 7. Search feature help you find out the keyword easily. 8. Some useful additional keys are added on the keyboard: “Home”, “End”, “Undo”, “Redo”, “forward”, “backward”. 9. Screen rotation supported, you can edit your files using either portrait or landscape mode. File Manager: 1. Multi-level folder supported, you can create folders & subfolders in “S-Editor”, conveniently manage your files. 2. Rename, copy, cut, paste, delete features supported. 3. Search feature supported for finding out the files you want. 4. Supports open-in feature: you can open the supported data from mail, safari or some other Apps that supported open-in feature; Also allow other Apps to open local files. 5. Supports multiple file formats viewing(docx, xlsx, pdf, png, jpg etc.). 6. Upload your files to Google Docs.
Plain Text Paste
Effortlessly remove text formatting when copying and pasting. This utility allows you to convert rich text to plain text, ensuring consistent formatting across all your applications. You can also view and edit the clipboard content.
- Copy as plain text
- Remove formatting from clipboard
- View and edit clipboard text
- Automatic formatting removal
- Split view support
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Copy as plain text right within your favourite apps!* Are you tired of pasting text into an app such as Mail, only to find that the text is too large or the wrong color? Using Plain Text Paste, you can now copy as plain text*, or remove formatting from the current clipboard content. All formatting (colors, fonts, and sizes) is automatically removed from the text in the clipboard. You can even view and edit the plain text currently in the clipboard with simple customizations such as removing newlines and uppercasing! How it works (easy way): 1. Highlight text 2. Tap "Share..." if available (if not, use steps below) 3. Tap "Copy Plain Text" 4. Paste the unformatted text into any app you wish Or (classic way): 1. Copy text from any app 2. Open Plain Text app 3. The text in the clipboard is automatically converted to plain text 4. Paste the unformatted text into any app you wish Take control of your clipboard by viewing and editing text, and clearing all formatting using Plain Text Paste. Notes: * The "copy within app" feature is not available in all apps. Please use "classic way" instead (see above). Disclaimer: App does not show original rich text. For illustrative purposes only. Second screenshot is showing the "Smart Copy" app to illustrate the "copy within app" feature.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SimpleEditor HD at Free against Plain Text Paste's $2.99. SimpleEditor HD also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Plain Text Paste's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.5) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
SimpleEditor HD is free to download; Plain Text Paste costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plain Text Paste holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plain Text Paste has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of SimpleEditor HD's written reviews are positive against 83% of Plain Text Paste's.
SimpleEditor HD ships an update every 3 weeks, Plain Text Paste every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleEditor HD | Plain Text Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.3 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 82.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 冠兰 姜 | Lukas Rossi |
Customer experience
SimpleEditor HD
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In-app purchases
SimpleEditor HD
No in-app purchases
Plain Text Paste
No in-app purchases
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