Comparison

KeepText vs ClipHist

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

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KeepText

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Anything you type twice belongs in KeepText. Addresses. Bank details. The reply you send five times a week. Prompts, code, links, your kid's allergy list. Save it once โ€” then paste it anywhere, without leaving the app you're in. THE KEEPTEXT KEYBOARD This is the one that changes the day-to-day. Switch to the KeepText keyboard inside Mail, Messages, WhatsApp, Safari, Slack โ€” anywhere you can type. Your snippets are right there, ordered by what you actually use, so the one you want is usually the first one. Tap it and the text lands at your cursor. No app switching. No back-and-forth copy and paste. No losing your place. SAVE IT IN UNDER A SECOND - Share sheet โ€” select text in any app, tap Share, choose KeepText. Done. - Clipboard โ€” copy something, open KeepText, and it offers to save it. One tap to keep, one tap to dismiss. It never reads your clipboard until you say yes. - Type it โ€” one field does both jobs. Search your library, and if nothing matches, that same field creates the snippet on the spot. ONE TAP AWAY, EVERYWHERE ELSE TOO - Widgets โ€” home screen and lock screen. Tap to copy. - Spotlight โ€” swipe down anywhere and search your snippets by name. - Shortcuts and Siri โ€” "Save clipboard to KeepText," or add it to your Action button for one-press capture. SEARCH THAT TELLS YOU THE TRUTH Most apps guess. KeepText matches exactly โ€” the word you typed, or the start of it, and nothing looser. That sounds like a limitation until you use it: when KeepText says nothing matched, it genuinely isn't saved yet, so you can create it right there instead of wondering whether you're about to make a duplicate. TEMPLATES Put {{name}} or {{date}} anywhere in a snippet. When you use it, KeepText asks you for the values and fills them in. Good for the email you send constantly with one line that changes. SYNCS EVERYWHERE. NO ACCOUNT. EVER. Your snippets sync across your devices through your own iCloud account. There is no KeepText account, no sign-up, no password, no server of ours in the middle. Nothing to breach, because there's nowhere for your text to go. The keyboard asks for Full Access because that is the only way iOS lets a keyboard read the snippets stored on your own device. KeepText uses it for exactly that. Nothing is collected, nothing is transmitted, there's no analytics โ€” the app has no account system to send anything to in the first place. You can export everything you've saved to a plain JSON file whenever you like. FREE, THEN ONE SMALL PURCHASE Keep up to 20 snippets free for as long as you want. One small purchase unlocks unlimited snippets, forever. No subscription. No trial that quietly starts charging. No ads. NO FOLDERS You'll notice there's no filing system. That's deliberate. Search and frequency do the organizing, so saving something costs you one tap instead of one decision โ€” which is the whole reason your snippets actually get saved

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ClipHist

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Keep the text you paste all the time exactly where you can reach it. Your email address. Your home address. That link you send people constantly. The reply you type out ten times a week. ClipHist keeps them all in one simple list, and copies any of them to your clipboard with a single tap. NO CLUTTER A clean list of your snippets and nothing else. No accounts, no sign-up, no onboarding carousel, no ads. ONE TAP TO COPY Tap any clip and it's on your clipboard, ready to paste wherever you need it. A brief confirmation lets you know it worked. MAKE IT YOURS โ€ข Add clips by typing, or pull in whatever you copied last โ€ข Edit any clip whenever you like โ€ข Swipe to delete what you no longer need โ€ข Drag your clips into whatever order suits you โ€” the arrangement sticks LIGHT OR DARK Choose Light, Dark, or let ClipHist follow your system setting. YOUR CLIPS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE This matters, so here is exactly how it works. Your clips are written to a single file inside ClipHist's own private storage on your iPhone. iOS keeps that storage sandboxed, so other apps cannot read it. ClipHist contains no networking code whatsoever. There are no servers, no account, no sign-in, and no sync. Your clips are never uploaded, and they are never shared with the developer or any third party. There is no analytics, no tracking, and no advertising, and the app includes no third-party code of any kind. Worth knowing: if you use iPhone backups, your clips are included in your own backup, which is how they survive when you move to a new phone. Those backups belong to you and are handled by Apple, not by this app. Clipboard access happens only when you act. ClipHist writes to your clipboard when you tap a clip to copy it, and reads from it only when you tap Paste from Clipboard. It never watches your clipboard in the background. Simple, fast, and yours.

Screenshots

KeepText4 screens
ClipHist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ClipHist at none against KeepText's 1. ClipHist also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. KeepText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ClipHist asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KeepText ships an update fortnightly, ClipHist weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
KeepText versus ClipHist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeepTextClipHist
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYeong Bing OngYakir Edry Giladi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

KeepText

One-time1
  • Unlimited Snippets$2.99
None

ClipHist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is KeepText free?
KeepText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClipHist free?
ClipHist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do KeepText or ClipHist have ads?
Neither KeepText nor ClipHist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KeepText or ClipHist?
KeepText ships an update fortnightly, and ClipHist weekly. Most recently, KeepText was updated on October 31, 2026 and ClipHist on October 31, 2026.

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