Comparison

Dots Calendar 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

Dots Calendar

Features
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DOTS CALENDAR — Countdown Widget Dots Calendar puts a beautiful, minimal calendar right on your home screen. Every day of the month is rendered as a filled circle, giving you an instant visual sense of where you are in the month — and how much time you have left until the next big day! SET A DEADLINE. Watch the days count down. Add a target date and Dots Calendar shows you exactly how many days remain. Whether you're counting down to a trip, a deadline, an event, or anything else that matters to you, the countdown is always a glance away. PROGRESS AT A GLANCE. Enable the progress bar to see a visual timeline stretching from your chosen start date to your deadline. No numbers to crunch — just a clean, satisfying bar that moves a little each day. MAKE IT YOURS. Customise the colour of today's marker, your deadline day, and the widget background. Prefer a fixed look regardless of your system appearance? Switch between Dynamic, Light, and Dark background modes with a single tap. SIMPLE. PRIVATE. NO NONSENSE. Dots Calendar collects no data, requires no account, and has no subscription. A one-time Lifetime license unlocks full colour customisation.

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

Dots Calendar4 screens
Plain Paste4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plain Paste at none against Dots Calendar's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dots Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plain Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dots Calendar ships an update every 5 weeks, Plain Paste every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Dots Calendar versus Plain Paste: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDots CalendarPlain Paste
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicolas SchimmelpfennigAndreas Ekegren

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dots Calendar

One-time1
  • Lifetime license$2.99
None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dots Calendar free?
Dots Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plain Paste free?
Plain Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dots Calendar or Plain Paste have ads?
Neither Dots Calendar nor Plain Paste shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dots Calendar or Plain Paste?
Dots Calendar ships an update every 5 weeks, and Plain Paste every 4 weeks. Most recently, Dots Calendar was updated on October 7, 2026 and Plain Paste on October 7, 2026.

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