Comparison

ClipyBuffer vs Catchly

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

Head to head
About

ClipyBuffer

A minimalist clipboard manager designed for simplicity. It offers a streamlined way to access and manage your copied text snippets. This tool aims to enhance productivity by making clipboard history easily accessible.

Highlights
  • Minimalist design
  • Clipboard history management
  • Streamlined access to snippets
  • Enhanced productivity tool
Features
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一款极简的剪切板管理工具。

About

Catchly

Quickly capture fleeting thoughts, ideas, and potential actions without the pressure of immediate organization. This lightweight tool provides a safe space for inspiration, allowing you to refine and act on them later. It prioritizes speed and privacy, keeping your ideas on your devices.

Highlights
  • Fast idea capture
  • Chronological timeline
  • Search and filters
  • Open, completed, archived states
  • Importance and urgency markers
  • Apple Reminders integration
  • Home Screen widgets
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Catchly is a fast, lightweight place to capture ideas, thoughts, and possible next actions. Ideas can appear and disappear in seconds: a sentence that suddenly comes to mind, an unfinished plan, something to handle later, or an insight from work or reading. Catchly gives each one a safe place to land. Catchly does not force every thought to become a heavy task. Capture it first, organize it later, and decide when—or whether—it deserves action. WHY CATCHLY WORKS - Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. Catchly reduces the friction between a thought appearing and storing it somewhere you trust. - An idea does not need to be complete. Save the first trace now and refine it when you are ready. - Unfinished thoughts occupy attention. Writing them down helps clear mental space without creating a complicated to-do system. - Important and urgent are not the same. Lightweight importance and urgency markers help you decide what deserves attention. - Low-friction capture builds a lasting habit. Input, reminders, filters, widgets, and shortcuts are designed to stay out of your way. - Your ideas remain yours. Catchly requires no account, uses no advertising trackers, and keeps your content on your devices and in iCloud rather than on developer-operated servers. HOW TO USE IT - Tap the capture button and write down your idea. - Add a date when timing matters, with the option to create an Apple Reminder. - Mark an idea as important or urgent to make it easier to find later. - Complete ideas you have acted on, or archive those you no longer need in view. - Search and filter by status, importance, or urgency. - Add Catchly widgets to your Home Screen so earlier ideas can resurface. - Use shortcuts and system integrations to capture ideas with minimal interruption. MADE FOR REAL LIFE - Work: follow-up actions, product ideas, copy, and investigation notes. - Learning: reading notes, course insights, questions, and concepts to revisit. - Life: shopping ideas, travel plans, temporary tasks, gifts, and loose ends. - Creativity: titles, paragraphs, scenes, story concepts, and fragments of inspiration. - Reflection: review your timeline and rediscover directions worth pursuing. FEATURES - Fast capture without forcing ideas into a complex task structure - A chronological timeline for browsing and reflection - Search and filters for keywords, status, importance, and urgency - Open, completed, and archived states - Lightweight importance and urgency matrix - Apple Reminders integration - Home Screen widgets that resurface captured ideas - iCloud and CloudKit sync across your Apple devices - No Catchly account required - Privacy-friendly design with no advertising tracking or sale of personal data CATCHLY MAY BE FOR YOU IF - You collect scattered thoughts but do not want to turn them into projects immediately. - You want something more focused than a general notes app and lighter than a task manager. - You want ideas, possible actions, reminders, and review in one simple flow. - You have ADHD—or simply a busy, fast-moving mind—and want an external inbox for your thoughts. - You often lose ideas while switching tasks and want a lower-friction way to preserve them. - You prefer to capture first and decide what matters later. CONTACT Questions, feedback, or suggestions for new capture methods are always welcome. Support: freemind.dev.workshop@gmail.com EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://glib-march-c73.notion.site/375a6a5d5d23806393f5dece27445693

Screenshots

ClipyBuffer3 screens
Catchly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ClipyBuffer at 100% against Catchly's 50%. ClipyBuffer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Catchly's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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

Catchly is free to download; ClipyBuffer costs $0.99 up front. Catchly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ClipyBuffer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ClipyBuffer versus Catchly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClipyBufferCatchly
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer小虎 王晓江 苏

Customer experience

ClipyBuffer

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

Catchly

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

ClipyBuffer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Catchly

One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$1.00

Questions

Is ClipyBuffer free?
ClipyBuffer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Catchly free?
Catchly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ClipyBuffer or Catchly have ads?
Neither ClipyBuffer nor Catchly shows ads.

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