Comparison

Text Cleaner 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

Text Cleaner

Effortlessly remove messy formatting and invisible characters from text, especially AI-generated content. This tool cleans up unnatural line breaks, Markdown, HTML, and more, providing pure, plain text for seamless pasting into any application.

Highlights
  • Removes invisible formatting and control characters
  • Corrects unnatural line breaks and paragraph formatting
  • Cleans AI-generated text, including ChatGPT outputs
  • Normalizes tabs, spaces, and quotation marks
  • Simple clipboard integration with one-tap cleaning
  • Minimalist design with dark/light mode support
Features
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• Smart text cleaning and formatting removal • Removes invisible control characters and invisible formatting artifacts • Specifically optimized for ChatGPT and AI-generated text formatting issues • Corrects unnatural line breaks, paragraph and list formatting • Removes Markdown symbols, HTML remnants, code blocks and disruptive formatting • Normalizes tabs, spaces, blank lines and standardizes quotation marks • Simple operation via clipboard and a single button • Minimalist Apple design for iOS and iPadOS with dark and light mode • Haptic feedback and animated Apple‑style cleaning • Full localization in 11 languages with automatic language detection • No subscription, no ads • Perfect for content creators, bloggers, students, professionals, social media users and AI users • Ideal to clean ChatGPT texts and remove unwanted formatting Text Cleaner is the efficient solution when you need to quickly and reliably remove messy and corrupted text formatting. Especially when working with ChatGPT and other AI‑text tools, texts often include invisible control characters, unnatural line breaks, and odd Markdown or HTML fragments. These formatting remnants often cause ugly display errors when pasting into email apps, word processors or social media. Text Cleaner lets you fix these issues effortlessly: the app removes invisible control characters, hidden formatting codes, disruptive Markdown and HTML elements. Paragraph formatting, lists, and bullet points are normalized and the text becomes clean, format‑free plain text. Essential structure is preserved to maintain readability. The key use case: You copy text from ChatGPT, which often has odd, unprofessional formatting—like strange line breaks or formatting that reveals it came from a KI. With one tap in Text Cleaner you get a clean, neutral version you can paste into email clients or other apps without the strange formatting being visible. The interface is minimalist and intuitive: just copy text to the clipboard, open the app, tap “Clean Text”—done. The app reads your clipboard automatically, cleans the text in a flash, and copies the cleaned text back. No manual adjustment needed. Text Cleaner not only removes disruptive formatting but also quickly converts and normalizes text. The app repairs and cleans your text reliably, removes formatting errors, and corrects line breaks automatically. Whether you want to copy, paste, or transfer text—Text Cleaner optimizes your copy & paste workflow. It removes markup, code formatting, and Unicode artifact characters, producing pure raw text. Thus every formatting problem is solved fast and effortless text processing becomes possible. Important: The app is entirely ad‑free and requires no subscription. Text Cleaner is ideal for content creators, bloggers, students, professionals, social media managers, and anyone working with text—especially when using ChatGPT and AI‑powered tools. Whether for emails, translation, presentations or social media—Text Cleaner transforms complex, poorly formatted text into clean, unformatted plain text that can be used effortlessly. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.wetterultra.com/datenschutz

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

Text Cleaner3 screens
Plain Paste4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plain Paste at none against Text Cleaner's 2. Plain Paste also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). Text Cleaner's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Text Cleaner sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 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 Text Cleaner against 5.0 for Plain Paste. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Text Cleaner's written reviews are positive against 100% of Plain Paste's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Cleaner ships an update every 5 months, Plain Paste every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Text Cleaner versus Plain Paste: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText CleanerPlain Paste
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeonhard HundschellAndreas Ekegren

Customer experience

Text Cleaner

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
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

2 purchases

Text Cleaner

One-time2
  • Text Cleaner$2.49
  • Text Cleaner Support$3.99
None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Cleaner free?
Text Cleaner 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, Text Cleaner or Plain Paste?
Text Cleaner and Plain Paste are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Text Cleaner or Plain Paste have ads?
Neither Text Cleaner nor Plain Paste shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Cleaner or Plain Paste?
Text Cleaner ships an update every 5 months, and Plain Paste every 4 weeks. Most recently, Text Cleaner was updated on October 8, 2026 and Plain Paste on October 7, 2026.

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