Comparison

Clipboard Space vs Filepad Markdown

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

Head to head
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Clipboard Space

Features
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Clipboard Space is the clipboard manager for iPhone that keeps whole files — PDFs, documents, images — alongside the text you copy, on your phone and on every other screen in the room. iPhone's clipboard only holds one thing. Clipboard Space keeps your whole history, so that paragraph you copied this morning is still there tonight. PASTE WITHOUT SWITCHING APPS Clipboard's own keyboard puts your history one tap away inside any app — favorites on their own page, everything else beside them. It asks for Allow Full Access: by default the keyboard only reads what the app has already saved on your iPhone, and it has no network access at all. Turn on Capture from Keyboard in Settings and it will also save new text you copy while the keyboard is open — still entirely on your iPhone. BROADCAST HUB — SHARE WITH ANY DEVICE Turn your iPhone into a private clipboard server. Open the address it gives you in any browser on the same Wi-Fi — Mac, Windows PC, iPad, even your TV — and your clips are waiting. Copy from the page, or send text and files from your computer straight back to your iPhone. Tap any clip on the page to read it in full, edit its text or title, or preview an image. No app needed on the other side, no account, no cloud: nothing ever leaves your network. NEVER LOSE A COPY AGAIN • Automatically captures what you copy • Texts, links, images, and files — all in one place • Smart filters: All, Texts, Images, Links, Files FIND ANYTHING IN SECONDS Instant search across every clip you've saved. The thing you copied last week is one keyword away. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY • Star favorites into their own Favorites tab • Add titles to clips: "Wi-Fi password", "Office address", "IBAN" • Drag to reorder, tap to edit • Save from any app with the Share Sheet PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything is stored locally on your iPhone and never uploaded. Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode — and keep your clipboard out of the keyboard with one switch in Settings. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE English, 繁體中文, 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어, Deutsch, Français, Español — the app, the Share Sheet, and the Broadcast Hub page all follow your language. FREE FOR 3 MONTHS Every feature is free for your first 3 months — capture, unlimited history, Broadcast Hub, everything. After the trial, browsing, copying and downloading stay free; a Pro subscription keeps capture and editing going. • No subscription starts by itself — you're charged only if you choose to subscribe • Monthly subscription, cancel anytime Questions or ideas? We'd love to hear from you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tonychz.github.io/ClipSpaceSupportPage/privacy

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Filepad Markdown

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Filepad opens the Markdown you already have — in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or on this iPhone — and leaves it exactly where it is. Nothing is copied into the app. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. FINDS WHAT IS QUIETLY WRONG HTML tells you when you break it. Markdown does not — it just renders differently, and you never notice. Filepad reads your document the way the renderer does and points at the lines that will not come out the way you meant: a heading with no space after the #, a table row with the wrong number of cells, an unclosed link, a footnote with no definition. One tap fixes what can be fixed by adding text. Nothing is ever deleted to "fix" something. READS PROPERLY Headings, tables, task lists, quotes, code blocks, footnotes, front matter, and [[wiki links]] between documents in the same folder. Jump by heading with the outline, or with the four navigation buttons that sit under your thumb. FINDS THINGS Search inside a document with every hit highlighted, or search a whole folder and see which files hold what you are looking for. Sort by name or by when you last changed something. EDITS AND SAVES CAREFULLY Edit the source with a toolbar for the marks you forget, and a line that tells you what the cursor is sitting on. Saving is atomic, and the previous version is kept beside the file so an edit can be undone. If the file changed outside the app while you were editing, Filepad does not overwrite it — it saves your version alongside and asks you. ALSO OPENS PDF, HTML AND TEXT PDFs and web documents are view-only. HTML is drawn with network access blocked at two independent layers, and when a document tries to reach the internet for an image or a script, Filepad says so on screen instead of quietly fetching it. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sync service of ours. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. The app makes no network requests at all. Your folders, your files, your device. Free, and staying free.

Screenshots

Clipboard Space4 screens
Filepad Markdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Filepad Markdown at none against Clipboard Space's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Clipboard Space sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Filepad Markdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Clipboard Space versus Filepad Markdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClipboard SpaceFilepad Markdown
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHoi Chun CHANByeongsoo Kang

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Clipboard Space

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
None

Filepad Markdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clipboard Space free?
Clipboard Space is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Filepad Markdown free?
Filepad Markdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clipboard Space or Filepad Markdown have ads?
Neither Clipboard Space nor Filepad Markdown shows ads.

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