Comparison

ClipNote vs Snippet

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

Head to head
About

ClipNote

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Stop retyping the same things. Save it once, paste it anywhere. ClipNote keeps the text you use all the time - home address, email templates, WiFi password, canned replies, order details - and lets you drop it into any app with a tap, using its own custom keyboard. No copy-paste juggling. No hunting through old messages. Just pick a note and paste. Everything stays on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking, and it works completely offline. SAVE ANYTHING WORTH REUSING • Keep addresses, phone numbers, emails, and WiFi codes handy • Store greeting messages, replies, and templates you send often • Jot quick notes and ideas before they slip away PASTE ANYWHERE WITH THE CLIPNOTE KEYBOARD • Switch to the ClipNote keyboard in Messages, Mail, Safari, or any app • Tap a note to paste it instantly - no leaving the app • Share text into ClipNote from other apps to save it fast STAY ORGANIZED YOUR WAY • Sort notes into folders and nested subfolders • Tag with hashtags and filter in seconds • Search, pin your favorites, and sort by date or title MAGIC VARIABLES (PREMIUM) • Insert today's date, the current time, or a custom date format • Drop your cursor exactly where you want to keep typing PRIVATE BY DESIGN • All notes live locally on your device - nothing is uploaded • Lock the app with Face ID or a passcode (Premium) • Back up to your own iCloud, or export to JSON and CSV SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING • Free to use with up to 10 notes, folders, and hashtags • Upgrade once to Premium for unlimited everything, privacy lock, iCloud backup, and magic variables • One-time purchase. No subscription. Yours forever. Download ClipNote and never type the same thing twice.

About

Snippet

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The replies you send over and over live on a keyboard of their own, inside any app. The slow part was never writing them — it was copying their name and order number out of each message by hand. Snippet reads those out for you. ON EVERY DEVICE Write a reply on your Mac and it is on your phone before you pick it up. Your snippets, your categories, and your colors sync through your own iCloud account. No sign-up, no separate subscription, and nothing to restore by hand on a new device. THE KEYBOARD Save a reply once. Then, in Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, or anywhere else, switch to the Snippet keyboard and tap it in. No app switching, no copy and paste, and no losing your place in the conversation. SMART FILL Select the message you just received, tap Share ā–ø Snippet, and pick one of your templates. Snippet reads that message and fills every {{field}} in your reply from it — the name, the date, the order number, the address. It never makes anything up. A value is used only if it actually appears in the message you selected; anything Snippet cannot find is left blank for you to complete. The message is held for that moment only and is never saved. In practice: their message says "this is Maya Levi, my order is #4471". You pick your shipping-update template, and the reply comes back with the name and the order number already in it, ready to send. Clients, customers, candidates, bookings: the same handful of questions, all day. CATEGORIES, ASSIGNED FOR YOU Other snippet apps hand you empty folders. Snippet reads each new snippet as you save it and files it into a colored category on its own, on your device. A genuinely new topic goes to "Other" instead of being forced into the wrong place. Nothing is uploaded, and it works offline. ON YOUR MAC Grab selected text from any app with a keyboard shortcut, and paste a snippet straight back. EVERYTHING ELSE • Pin the snippets you reach for most, and they sit at the top of the keyboard • Write {{date}} or {{time}} in a snippet and it fills itself in when you use it • Share extension — save selected text as a snippet, or run Smart Fill on it • Instant search in any language, ignoring case and accents • Categories you can rename and merge • Title and tag suggestions while you write • Lock a category behind Face ID or Touch ID, so what is in it stays private FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO UPGRADE The keyboard, iCloud sync, automatic categorization, search, capture, and the Share extension are free. Pro adds Smart Fill, category encryption, and unlimited snippets — one purchase, not a subscription, covering Mac and iPhone together. Snippet has no advertising and no analytics. The automatic categorization, Smart Fill, and title suggestions run on Apple Intelligence and need a supported device on iOS 26 or macOS 26. Everything else works on iOS 17 and macOS 14 or later: the keyboard, sync, search, capture and encryption.

Screenshots

ClipNote4 screens
Snippet4 screens

Verdict

The call

ClipNote and Snippet are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. ClipNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Snippet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ClipNote versus Snippet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClipNoteSnippet
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHuong Le DieuYechiel Ben David

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ClipNote

One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$5.99
1 purchases

Snippet

One-time1
  • Snippet Pro Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is ClipNote free?
ClipNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Snippet free?
Snippet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ClipNote or Snippet have ads?
Neither ClipNote nor Snippet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClipNote or Snippet?
ClipNote ships an update every 2 months, and Snippet every 2 months. Most recently, ClipNote was updated on October 25, 2026 and Snippet on October 25, 2026.

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