Comparison

Plain Paste vs Copy This

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Remove rich text formatting
  • Copy clean plain text
  • Clipboard history (up to 100 items)
  • Disable clipboard history
  • Privacy-focused design
  • Local data storage
Features
Read full description

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.

About

Copy This

Effortlessly save and manage your clipboard history. Automatically captures text, links, and images, offering editing, searching, and sharing options. Pro features include expanded storage, custom expiration, pinning, and iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Automatic clipboard capture
  • Text editing with word/character counts
  • Image zoom and save to Photos
  • Search and sort clips
  • Custom clip expiration
  • iCloud sync
  • Pinned clips
Features
Read full description

Copy something, open Copy This, and it is already saved. No taps, no setup, no cleanup later. Every clip becomes a tile: • Automatic capture the moment you open the app: text, links, and images • Tap a text clip to edit it in a clean full page editor with live character and word counts • Pinch to zoom images, or save them straight to Photos • Long press any tile to copy, share, open a link, or delete • Search your text and links by any word, and sort by newest, oldest, or largest • Set your own limits with Copy This Pro: keep up to 2,500 clips or go unlimited, and expire clips after an hour, a day, a week, a month, three months, a year, or keep them forever • Pin the clips that matter with Copy This Pro, and they are never removed automatically • Turn on iCloud sync with Copy This Pro and your clips follow you to your other devices, through iCloud • Clear everything from Settings, behind a confirmation so it never happens by accident Private by design. Copy This has no accounts, no ads, and no analytics, and it never sends anything to a server of ours. With Copy This Pro you can turn on iCloud sync, which keeps your clips in your own private iCloud database, in your Apple Account. It only reads your clipboard when the clipboard has actually changed since it last looked, under iOS's paste permission system, and anything a password manager marks confidential is never recorded. Copy This is free and keeps your latest 10 clips: capture, editing, search, and sharing all work on them. Copy This Pro is a one-time unlock that lets you keep more clips, go unlimited, set your own duration limits, keeps pinned clips out of every cleanup, and adds iCloud sync across your devices. No subscriptions, no ads, no accounts. Your clipboard, kept both fast and easy.

Screenshots

Plain Paste4 screens
Copy This4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plain Paste at none against Copy This's 2. Plain Paste also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Copy This sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Plain Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Plain Paste against 5.0 for Copy This. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plain Paste ships an update weekly, Copy This every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Plain Paste versus Copy This: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlain PasteCopy This
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas EkegrenZain Aaban

Customer experience

Plain Paste

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Copy This

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Plain Paste

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Copy This

One-time2
  • Copy This Pro$4.99
  • Copy This Pro Family$6.99

Questions

Is Plain Paste free?
Plain Paste is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Copy This free?
Copy This is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plain Paste or Copy This?
Plain Paste and Copy This are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Plain Paste or Copy This have ads?
Neither Plain Paste nor Copy This shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plain Paste or Copy This?
Plain Paste ships an update weekly, and Copy This every 11 days. Most recently, Plain Paste was updated on October 31, 2026 and Copy This on October 31, 2026.

Other comparisons