Comparison

Cloud Snippets vs Narrativ Timeline

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

Head to head
About

Cloud Snippets

This app acts as an iCloud-backed manager for text snippets and clipboard history, allowing you to quickly paste frequently used text into any application directly from your keyboard. It syncs seamlessly across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, ensuring your information is always accessible and securely stored in your private iCloud account.

Highlights
  • iCloud-backed snippet management
  • Keyboard text pasting
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Clipboard history
  • Secure private storage
  • Share menu integration
  • Keyboard search
Features
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Cloud Snippets is a modern iCloud-backed Snippets and Clipboard Manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. - No subscriptions, no ads, no registrations or logins, no in-app purchases. - Quickly paste your frequently-used snippets of text into almost any app directly from the keyboard. - Use our FREE Mac app to automatically save your Mac's Clipboard History and easily paste from any of your iCloud devices. - Sync your snippets across all your iCloud devices including Macs, iPhones, and iPads. - All your snippets are securely stored in your private iCloud account. We never have any kind of access to any of your information. - Copy and paste multiple items without having to go back and forth between apps or devices. - Copy something now to paste later. It will be waiting for you in your Clipboard History even if you need to copy something else in the meantime. - You can quickly add new Snippets or save to your Clipboard History via the Share menu. - You can search through your snippets and clipboard history directly from the keyboard.

About

Narrativ Timeline

This app helps creative writers plan their stories by mapping out plotlines, characters, locations, and world events. It allows for detailed character and scene planning, capturing loose thoughts, and organizing entire story universes. Export your comprehensive story bible in various formats when planning is complete.

Highlights
  • Character planning with relationships and traits
  • Scene mapping with summaries and plotline tags
  • World event tracking
  • Notepad for loose ideas
  • Series planning and universe building
  • Character relationship graph visualization
  • Exportable story bible (PDF, Word, Markdown)
Features
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Narrativ is a planning tool for creative writers. Map out the shape of your story. Add a cast, sketch your plotlines, create locations, note important world events, and link it all to the timeline so you can get a clear picture of the structure of your story. Plan your cast Build characters with photos, roles, traits, relationships, and the connections that make them more than a list of names. See who knows whom in a graph. Track who appears in which scene. Plan your scenes Scenes with summaries, tension, cast, and plotline tags. View them as cards, on a timeline, or in story order. This is where the story takes shape. The manuscript comes later, in your writing app of choice. Plan your world The story is ten per cent on the page. The world is the ninety per cent underneath. World Events is where that ninety per cent lives. Everything you know about your world that the reader never sees. Add events with your own when-labels and link them to the scenes that show them. Capture loose thoughts Not every idea is ready to become a character or a scene. Notepad is where it waits until it is. Write one note or a hundred, right inside the story you're planning. Plan a series A universe holds multiple stories that share characters, locations, and world events. Add a story and it inherits the cast. The bundled Sherlock Holmes example shows a three-book universe in action. See the connections The character graph maps your cast as a force-directed network. Characters who share scenes pull closer together, loosely connected characters drift apart. Tap a node to open a character card. Tap a line to see the scenes they share. The graph shows you where relationships are overloaded, where they are thin, and where a connection is missing that the story needs. Wherever the idea strikes Narrativ is universal across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can work at your desk or on the go. Your work syncs through iCloud. One-time purchase, no subscription. Exports When the planning is done, export everything as a story bible. Choose PDF, Word, Markdown, or plain text. Select which sections to include: characters, scenes, plotlines, world events, or the full document. A clean reference to keep open while you write. Go dark With Narrativ, you can choose between light and dark mode, or let the app follow your system settings. Before the story, there's Narrativ.

Screenshots

Cloud Snippets4 screens
Narrativ Timeline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cloud Snippets at 100% against Narrativ Timeline's 0%. Cloud Snippets also leads on price ($2.99 vs $24.99) and rating (4.0 vs 3.5). Narrativ Timeline's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 weeks). On ratings volume, 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

Cloud Snippets costs $2.99 and Narrativ Timeline $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cloud Snippets holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Cloud Snippets's written reviews are positive against 0% of Narrativ Timeline's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cloud Snippets ships an update every 4 weeks, Narrativ Timeline every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cloud Snippets versus Narrativ Timeline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloud SnippetsNarrativ Timeline
Price$2.99 — better$24.99
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSageScope TechEIRIK ANDRE STEEN

Customer experience

Cloud Snippets

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Narrativ Timeline

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cloud Snippets

No in-app purchases

None

Narrativ Timeline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cloud Snippets free?
Cloud Snippets costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Narrativ Timeline free?
Narrativ Timeline costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cloud Snippets or Narrativ Timeline?
Cloud Snippets is rated higher. Cloud Snippets averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Narrativ Timeline averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Cloud Snippets or Narrativ Timeline have ads?
Neither Cloud Snippets nor Narrativ Timeline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cloud Snippets or Narrativ Timeline?
Cloud Snippets ships an update every 4 weeks, and Narrativ Timeline every 9 days. Most recently, Cloud Snippets was updated on September 16, 2026 and Narrativ Timeline on September 23, 2026.

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