Clean Paste vs LinkClean
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Remove invisible characters
- Live text editor preview
- Auto-clean clipboard
- Clipboard integration
- History manager
- Customizable cleaning rules
Read full descriptionHide full description
Effortlessly remove invisible characters, smart quotes, emojis, bullets, ellipses & markdown artifacts from your text. • Clean text in one tap – Remove non-breaking spaces, hidden formatting, unwanted emojis and more • Input & Output preview – Live TextEditor views for paste-in and cleaned text • Auto-Clean mode – Automatically sanitize clipboard content on paste • Clipboard integration – Paste from and copy back to your clipboard with a single button • History manager – Keep cleaned items • Settings & customization – Toggle auto-clean, enable/disable history saving, adjust cleaning rules • Share sheet support – Quickly share sanitized text to Mail, Messages, Notes or social apps • Data persistence – Seamless local storage of history entries Ideal for writers, developers, marketers and anyone tired of messy text. Perfect for cleaning up copy-and-paste artifacts before emailing, publishing, coding or sharing on social media.
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.
- 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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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 link as… — plain, Markdown [title](url) with the page title filled in, or your own format 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 one feature that reaches the web — 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, which reaches the web only when you switch it on. 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
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LinkClean at Free against Clean Paste's $2.99. LinkClean also leads on update cadence (weekly 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
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.
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.
Clean Paste ships an update every 2 months, LinkClean weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clean Paste | LinkClean |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anthony Harvey | KEN TOMINAGA |
Customer experience
Clean Paste
LinkClean
In-app purchases
Clean Paste
No in-app purchases
LinkClean
- LinkClean Pro$4.99





