Comparison

Clean Text vs Plain Paste

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

Head to head
About

Clean Text

Instantly transform messy, formatted text into clean, plain text. This utility removes all styling, fonts, and colors, making content from websites, documents, or emails easily readable. Features one-tap cleaning, smart paste options, and quick copy/clear functionality.

Highlights
  • One-tap text cleaning
  • Smart paste options
  • Quick copy and clear
  • Clipboard management
  • Simple interface
Features
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Transform messy formatted text into clean, plain text instantly. Clean Text removes all formatting, fonts, and styling from any text you paste — giving you clean, readable text every time. Perfect for copying content from websites, documents, or anywhere formatting gets in the way. Simply paste your formatted text and get clean results instantly. Whether you're cleaning up text from emails, web pages, or documents, Clean Text makes it effortless to get the plain text you need. FEATURES • One-Tap Text Cleaning Paste any formatted text and instantly get clean, plain text without fonts, colors, or styling. • Smart Paste Options Choose how new text is added: same line, new line, or with extra spacing between content. • Quick Copy & Clear Copy your cleaned text to clipboard with one tap, or clear everything to start fresh. • Clipboard Management Built-in clipboard clearing feature for privacy and convenience. • Simple, Clean Interface Focused design that gets out of your way — just paste, clean, and copy. Clean Text makes formatting headaches disappear. Get clean, readable text every time — no fuss, no complicated settings.

About

Plain Paste

This utility app removes formatting from copied text, providing a clean plain-text version for easier use. It offers clipboard history to access recent items and is designed with user privacy in mind, storing data locally.

Highlights
  • Remove rich text formatting
  • Copy clean plain text
  • Clipboard history (up to 100 items)
  • Disable clipboard history
  • Private by design, local storage
Features
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Plain Paste makes copied text easier to use. Paste formatted text from websites, documents, emails, chats, or notes, and Plain Paste copies a clean plain-text version back to your clipboard. Made for everyday moments when bold text, links, fonts, colors, and hidden formatting get in the way. Features: • Remove formatting from rich text • Copy cleaned plain text back to your clipboard • Access and reuse up to 100 recent items in clipboard history • Turn clipboard history off whenever you want • Private by design: Plain Paste only reads and cleans text you explicitly paste into the app. Clipboard history is stored locally, can be cleared anytime, and never leaves your device. Plain Paste is a simple utility for everyone who writes, copies, pastes, cleans up notes, reuses text, or just wants text to behave.

Screenshots

Clean Text1 screens
Plain Paste4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plain Paste at none against Clean Text's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Clean Text sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plain Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Clean Text against 5.0 for Plain Paste. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Text ships an update every 2 months, Plain Paste every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Clean Text versus Plain Paste: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean TextPlain Paste
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProductiveTapAndreas Ekegren

Customer experience

Clean Text

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Plain Paste

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Clean Text

One-time1
  • Premium$4.99
None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clean Text free?
Clean Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plain Paste free?
Plain Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clean Text or Plain Paste?
Clean Text and Plain Paste are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Clean Text or Plain Paste have ads?
Neither Clean Text nor Plain Paste shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Text or Plain Paste?
Clean Text ships an update every 2 months, and Plain Paste every 4 weeks. Most recently, Clean Text was updated on October 3, 2026 and Plain Paste on October 7, 2026.

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