Simple Stickies vs Plain Paste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Stickies
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Simple Stickies is a clean and easy way to keep notes close at hand on your iPhone. Write quick thoughts, reminders, to-do lists, and work notes in a simple sticky note interface designed to stay out of your way. Use Simple Stickies to capture ideas fast, switch between notes in a tap, pin a note to your widget, and keep everything in sync with iCloud. You can also write quick math directly inside a note, making it easy to calculate totals, budgets, percentages, and everyday numbers while you work. Features: Simple sticky notes for iPhone Quick math calculations inside notes iCloud sync Home Screen widget support Create and switch between notes easily Pin a note for quick access Clean, lightweight design Simple Stickies helps you keep important things visible, simple, and always within reach.
Plain Paste
This utility app removes formatting from copied text, providing a clean plain-text version for easier use. It offers a 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
- Privacy-focused design
- Local data 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: Plain Paste at weekly against Simple Stickies's every 4 weeks. 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.
Simple Stickies ships an update every 4 weeks, Plain Paste weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Stickies | 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 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ruben Martin Salvador | Andreas Ekegren |
In-app purchases
Simple Stickies
No in-app purchases
Plain Paste
No in-app purchases









