Today Last Year vs Plain Paste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Today Last Year
This app displays your calendar events from the same day in the previous year. It offers a private way to recall past activities without requiring sign-up or cloud synchronization, keeping your data solely on your device.
- View events from last year
- Works with Apple Calendar
- No sign-up needed
- Private, on-device data storage
- Simple interface
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If you're anything like me, you use your calendar for everything because you have an awful memory! Today Last Year shows you calendar events from this day last year — a simple, private way to remember what you did last year. • Works with your existing Apple Calendar • No sign-up required • No cloud sync — your data stays on your device Sometimes the best way to appreciate how far you've come is to look back at where you were.
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.
- Remove rich text formatting
- Copy clean plain text
- Clipboard history (up to 100 items)
- Disable clipboard history
- Private by design, local storage
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Plain Paste at 17.0 against Today Last Year's 26.2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Today Last Year against 5.0 for Plain Paste. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Today Last Year | Plain Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joseph Fogiato | Andreas Ekegren |
Customer experience
Today Last Year
Plain Paste
In-app purchases
Today Last Year
No in-app purchases
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases









