Comparison

Clean Paste vs LinkClean

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

Head to head
About

Clean Paste

This utility app swiftly removes hidden characters, smart quotes, emojis, and formatting artifacts from your text. It offers a live preview, auto-cleaning of the clipboard, and a history manager for your cleaned items.

Highlights
  • Remove invisible characters
  • Live text editor preview
  • Auto-clean clipboard
  • Clipboard integration
  • History manager
  • Customizable cleaning rules
Features
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Paste AI text. Get clean, natural writing. Clean Paste strips the hidden characters, AI punctuation and formatting clutter that come along when you copy from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI tools. Then it helps you rewrite what still sounds robotic, all on your device. ONE TAP, CLEAN TEXT • Removes invisible characters: zero-width spaces, hidden Unicode tags, soft hyphens and odd spacing • Swaps em dashes, curly quotes, bullets and ellipses for plain punctuation • Strips markdown leftovers like ##, bold, backticks and > quotes • Auto-clean works as you paste, and a clear summary shows every fix FIND WHAT SOUNDS LIKE AI The AI Tells scanner highlights the words and habits that give writing away: "delve", "tapestry", "it's important to note", "not just X, but Y", and heavy dash use. You get a score for the whole passage, and each tell can be fixed with one tap, with Fix All, or by having Apple Intelligence rewrite the sentence. REWORD WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE Reduce Watermarking rewords text with synonyms or a full on-device rewrite, so the wording is genuinely yours. PROFILES AND YOUR OWN RULES • One-tap profiles for Email, Code, Social and Essay • Custom rules swap any word you never want to see, like "utilize" → "use" • Every option can be switched on or off to suit you CLEAN FROM ANYWHERE • Control Center and the Action Button • Siri: "Clean my clipboard with Clean Paste" • Shortcuts actions for your own automations • Share sheet: select text in any app and tap Clean Paste • On Mac, press ⌘⇧K in any app to clean your clipboard instantly SEE EXACTLY WHAT CHANGED A detailed change report lists every edit with its surrounding text. Export it as a PDF or CSV. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your device. Your text is never uploaded, and there's no account and no subscription: pay once and every feature is yours. Made for students, writers, marketers, developers and anyone who pastes AI text into email, essays, posts or code. Clean Paste cleans and rewords text. It can't guarantee how any AI detector will score your writing, and no tool can.

About

LinkClean

This app removes tracking parameters from URLs, providing a clean destination link. It offers multiple ways to clean links, including share sheets, browser extensions, and widgets. Users can also generate QR codes from cleaned links and track their privacy impact.

Highlights
  • Removes tracking parameters from links
  • Cleans links via Share Sheet, Safari, and Shortcuts
  • Generates QR codes from cleaned links
  • Provides detailed tracker removal summaries
  • Offers customizable tracker lists
  • Maintains a searchable history of cleaned links
Features
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LinkClean strips tracking junk from any link, so what you share is the clean destination — not a trail of who shared it, from where, and when. Paste a link and LinkClean instantly removes tracking parameters like utm_source, fbclid, gclid, and dozens more. You see exactly what was taken out and what's left, then copy a clean link with a single tap. CLEAN FROM ANYWHERE You don't have to open the app to clean a link: • Share Sheet — tap Share in any app, pick Clean URL, and the tidied link is on your clipboard • Safari — clean the link of the page you're on right from the toolbar, then copy it, copy as Markdown, or share • Shortcuts & Siri — clean links inside your own automations, hands-free • Control Center & Home Screen widget — one tap cleans whatever you've copied • Copy As… — plain, Markdown [title](url) with the page title filled in, or your own format • Clean & Share — clean the link and hand it straight back to the share sheet, so you can send it on without starting over CLEANING THAT GOES DEEPER LinkClean does more than trim the obvious tags: • Unwraps redirect links to find and clean the real destination • Strips trackers hiding after the # in a link • Expands short links too — turn on Short-Link Expansion and LinkClean follows bit.ly, t.co, and the like to the real page before cleaning it (free, off by default, and the only time the link itself is sent out — always your choice) SCAN & MAKE QR CODES • Scan a QR code to clean the link hidden inside it • Turn any clean link into a fresh QR code to share SEE WHO WAS TRACKING YOU Every clean shows a calm summary of how many trackers were removed — tap to see exactly which ones, and who set each one. utm_source was built by Urchin Software in 1996, years before Google bought them and turned it into Google Analytics. fbclid is Meta's, from 2018. Tap a leftover to strip it from now on. The Statistics dashboard adds it all up over time, with a privacy card you can share. MAKE IT YOURS • Turn the built-in tracker list on or off • Add your own parameters to always remove • Keep a searchable History of everything you've cleaned — copy, share, re-clean, or reopen any link, and tap one to see exactly what changed, before and after ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER LinkClean is free to use: unlimited cleaning, the Share Sheet and Shortcuts actions, one custom rule of your own, and your last 7 days of History. LinkClean Pro unlocks your own copy formats, unlimited custom rules, your full History archive, and a link library where you can save a cleaned link with your own note and pin the ones that matter — a single one-time purchase. No subscription, no account, nothing recurring. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Cleaning happens entirely on your device, and the full links you clean never leave it — not the path, the parameters, or any values. The one exception is Short-Link Expansion: turn it on and the link is sent out, to follow it to the real page. LinkClean uses only anonymous, aggregate analytics to learn which features matter; the one thing it notes about a cleaned link is its site domain (like youtube.com), never the full link. See the privacy policy for the full picture. Built for iOS 26 with a fast, native, Liquid Glass interface. — Privacy Policy: https://ken0nek.com/apps/linkclean/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Clean Paste4 screens
LinkClean4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LinkClean at Free against Clean Paste's $2.99. LinkClean also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Clean Paste's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (14 vs 1). On rating, 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

LinkClean is free to download; Clean Paste costs $2.99 up front. LinkClean sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clean Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Clean Paste against 5.0 for LinkClean. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean Paste has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Paste ships an update every 2 months, LinkClean every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Clean Paste versus LinkClean: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean PasteLinkClean
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony HarveyKEN TOMINAGA

Customer experience

Clean Paste

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

LinkClean

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Clean Paste

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

LinkClean

One-time1
  • LinkClean Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Clean Paste free?
Clean Paste costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LinkClean free?
LinkClean is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clean Paste or LinkClean?
LinkClean is rated higher. Clean Paste averages 4.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while LinkClean averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Clean Paste or LinkClean have ads?
Neither Clean Paste nor LinkClean shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Paste or LinkClean?
Clean Paste ships an update every 2 months, and LinkClean every 5 days. Most recently, Clean Paste was updated on October 12, 2026 and LinkClean on October 10, 2026.

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