Cloud Snippets vs Narrativ Timeline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- iCloud-backed snippet management
- Keyboard text pasting
- Cross-device syncing
- Clipboard history
- Secure private storage
- Share menu integration
- Keyboard search
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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.
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.
- 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)
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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, descriptions, 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. Find the structure Follow each plotline through the story, beat by beat. Start from a framework if it helps: Three-Act Structure, Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, Seven-Point, Story Circle, Freytag’s Pyramid, Fichtean Curve, Four-Act or Kishotenketsu. Or ignore them all and build your own. Plan your world The story is ten per cent on the page. The world is the ninety per cent underneath. World Events and Lore are where that ninety per cent lives: everything you know about your world that the reader never sees. Add events with your own when-labels, link them to the scenes that show them, and switch the timeline between story order and world time. 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, with bold, italics and highlights, and link a note to any card in your story with the @ feature. Set milestones Give your next step a deadline: “First act mapped”, Friday at nine. Get a reminder at the deadline, and every day, week or month before it if you want one. See your milestones in a calendar or add them to your phone’s Calendar. Reminders only come from milestones you set up yourself. 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. Your book on your Home Screen Widgets show your book’s cover and what it holds, your whole bookshelf, or the shortcuts you choose. Add a Narrativ button to the Lock Screen, Control Center or the Action button to start a note, a character or a scene in one tap, in the book you choose. Quick actions and Siri get you there too. Wherever the idea strikes Narrativ is universal across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and made for iPhone Duo, folded or open. 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. Your look Narrativ’s own colours and type, or the system look with iOS colours and fonts. Light, dark, or following your device. Before the story, there’s Narrativ.
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Verdict
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 (weekly 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
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.
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.
Cloud Snippets ships an update every 4 weeks, Narrativ Timeline weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Cloud Snippets | Narrativ Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $24.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SageScope Tech | EIRIK ANDRE STEEN |
Customer experience
Cloud Snippets
Narrativ Timeline
In-app purchases
Cloud Snippets
No in-app purchases
Narrativ Timeline
No in-app purchases






