BigTimer. vs Plain Paste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BigTimer.
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BigTimer turns your phone or tablet into a giant, easy-to-read stopwatch and countdown timer. The digits fill the whole screen, so you can see the time from across the room. STOPWATCH • Huge MM:SS digits that scale to fill the screen; hours appear automatically after 59:59 • Lap times with split totals, the fastest and slowest lap marked COUNTDOWN • One-tap presets from 1 minute to 1 hour, or set any time up to 23:59:59 • Loud alarm, vibration and flashing digits when time is up • Both timers run side by side: switch views and the other keeps counting INTERVAL ALERTS • Beep and vibrate every 1, 2, 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes; ideal for workouts, practice sessions and talks MADE FOR READING AT A DISTANCE • Five color themes: Navy, Black, Night (red, easy on dark-adapted eyes), Green and Light (for bright rooms) • Works in portrait and landscape • Full-screen, distraction-free display; the screen stays awake while timing • Keeps time while the phone is locked and remembers your timers, laps and settings when you reopen it • No ads, no accounts, no data collected Great for workouts and HIIT, talks and presentations, classrooms and exams, meetings, cooking, board games, and anywhere you need to see the time at a glance.
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 iOS requirement: BigTimer. at 15.0 against Plain Paste's 17.0. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | BigTimer. | Plain Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | arroWebs Inc | Andreas Ekegren |
In-app purchases
BigTimer.
No in-app purchases
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases





