CipText vs Plain Paste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CipText
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CipText is designed for text that does not need to last forever. You can create personal entries and assign a start time and an end time to each one. Before the active date, the content cannot be viewed. Once the expiration time is reached, the entry becomes invalid automatically. CipText is suitable for: - Temporary notes - Personal reminders - Time-sensitive text This is not a cloud note app. There is no sharing. CipText simply manages your text and the time it exists.
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 update cadence: CipText at every 9 days against Plain Paste's every 6 weeks. CipText also leads on iOS requirement (14.4 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
CipText ships an update every 9 days, Plain Paste every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | CipText | Plain Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 伟 龙 | Andreas Ekegren |
In-app purchases
CipText
No in-app purchases
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases









