Comparison

uFocus vs Plain Paste

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

Head to head
About

uFocus

A distraction-free writing app designed for creative expression. It supports plain text files, offers advanced Markdown and Fountain syntax for various writing needs, and provides tools to enhance focus and productivity.

Highlights
  • Unobtrusive interface
  • Text statistics
  • MultiMarkdown support
  • Fountain screenplay support
  • Highlighting options
  • Typewriter scrolling
  • Customizable themes
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uFocus is a distraction-free writing environment that supports plain text files and allows you to keep them organized inside libraries. It allows everyone to express their creativity in the most simple way. • Unobtrusive interface: the navigation bar disappears while writing. • Swipe to show the sidebar. Here you can link your favorite libraries and quickly access your documents. • Show text statistics including character and word count and reading time. • MultiMarkdown: easily add headings, quotes, ordered and unordered lists, links, images, italics, bold, footnotes, citations, glossaries and acronyms. You can then export your documents to HTML or PDF. With CriticMarkup and Live Edit Mode you can easily mark removals, additions and substitutions, add highlghts and comments, and accept or reject them. • Fountain: create screenplays with the Markdown-inspired markup syntax and print or export them as PDF with industry-standard formatting. • Highlighting: you can stay even more focused by fading out all the text but the current sentence or paragraph. • Typewriter scrolling: automatically scrolls the text when you get on a new line. • Sound mode: experience the ultimate feeling of a typewriter. • No deletions mode: disable deletions and replacements if your greatest temptation is always to edit your text instead of writing. • Fullscreen: focus on your words and hide everything else. • Choose between three different editor widths, four font sizes and a light, dark, sepia or amber theme, or create your own theme. • Print single files or entire directory hierarchies. If you have any requests, suggestions or bug reports, you're welcome to visit the website through the Support link.

About

Plain Paste

This app helps manage your clipboard across devices, ensuring consistent text formatting when copying and pasting. It streamlines workflows by stripping unwanted styles, allowing for uniform presentation of copied content.

Highlights
  • Cross-device clipboard management
  • Strips text formatting
  • Clears clipboard content
  • Menu bar integration
  • Streamlines word processing
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Plain Paste is the one app to manage your clipboard across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Tired of mismatched fonts, colors, and sizes when copying text from one program to another? Plain Paste will streamline your word processing workflow: copy, click, paste. Always one click away, Plain Paste is ready to strip the formatting from your clipboard or clear it entirely. Simply copy text in any format to the clipboard, click on the scissor icon in the menu bar, and the next time you paste, all of the formatting will look the same.

Screenshots

uFocus4 screens
Plain Paste4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Plain Paste at free against uFocus's paid. Plain Paste also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). uFocus's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 4). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plain Paste holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uFocus has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of uFocus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Plain Paste's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
uFocus versus Plain Paste: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteruFocusPlain Paste
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (35 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better4
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicolas Kickjakechasan.com

Customer experience

uFocus

All ratings35 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive91.5%
Neutral1.4%
Negative7.0%

Plain Paste

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

uFocus

No in-app purchases

None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is uFocus free?
uFocus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plain Paste free?
Plain Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, uFocus or Plain Paste?
Plain Paste is rated higher. uFocus averages 4.7 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Plain Paste averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do uFocus or Plain Paste have ads?
Neither uFocus nor Plain Paste shows ads.

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