Clipy vs Echo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clipy
This app provides a searchable history of your copied text on Mac and iPhone. It allows for direct, encrypted sharing of clips between trusted Apple devices on your local network without requiring an account or cloud storage.
- Searchable clipboard history
- Nearby sharing between Apple devices
- Local storage, no cloud
- Encrypted sessions
- Menu bar access on Mac
- Privacy-focused design
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Your clipboard should remember more than one thing. Clipy gives your iPhone and Mac a searchable history of recent copied text, plus a simple way to send clips directly to trusted Apple devices nearby. No account. No cloud. Just the text you need, ready to use again. CLIPBOARD HISTORY Keep up to 100 recent text clips, newest first. See where a clip came from, then copy it back whenever you need it. NEARBY SHARING Connect trusted Apple devices on your local network and send your latest clip directly between them. Sessions are verified and encrypted, with no cloud account required. FAST SEARCH Search your history by copied text or source device so old addresses, links, notes, code snippets, and messages are easy to find. BUILT FOR MAC Clipy can automatically capture copied text on Mac and keeps recent clips close at hand from the menu bar, so you can search, copy, and send without breaking your flow. BUILT FOR iPHONE Keep Clipy open while you copy to build your clipboard history. iPhone does not allow apps to continuously read the clipboard in the background, so Clipy works within Apple’s privacy model instead of trying to work around it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Clipy is designed around local storage and direct nearby sharing rather than a cloud clipboard account. Copy something useful. Find it later. Send it where you need it.
Echo
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Talk in Arabic, English, or both. Echo hands back what matters. Echo listens to your meetings, calls and lectures, remembers every word, and gives you the summary, the decisions and the to-dos. So you can stay in the conversation, not in your notes. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tap to start at the top of a meeting, a lecture or a quick thought. 2. Put your phone down and join the conversation. 3. When you stop, Echo hands back a short summary of what was said and decided, to-dos pulled from the conversation, and the full transcript with timestamps, so you can jump to any moment. BUILT FOR ARABIC AND ENGLISH Speak Arabic, English, or both in the same sentence. Echo understands Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian and Maghrebi dialects as well as Modern Standard Arabic, and the whole app works in Arabic and English. ASK ECHO Ask anything about a conversation, like "What did we decide about pricing?", and get answers drawn from what was actually said. FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR STUDIES Client meetings, team check-ins, interviews, lectures, study groups. Choose a template (meeting minutes, client meeting, lecture notes, interview and more) and keep clients, classes and projects apart in folders. SHAPED AROUND YOUR DAY • Watch the transcript appear live while Echo listens • Live Activity on your Lock Screen • Meeting reminders from your calendar, a minute before each one starts • A dictation keyboard for getting words down fast • Import audio files you already have • Attach photos to a note • Export and share notes as PDF or Word YOU STAY IN CONTROL Echo informs. You decide. It never sends, books or replies on your behalf. ECHO PRO Echo is free to try, with a monthly allowance of minutes. Echo Pro gives you unlimited minutes, unlimited Ask Echo questions and faster processing. • Echo Pro is available as a weekly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. The yearly plan includes a free trial. • You'll see the price and any trial length on Apple's confirmation screen before you pay. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. • The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.meetwithecho.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.meetwithecho.ai/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clipy at none against Echo's 3. Clipy also leads on ads (none vs shown). Echo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Echo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Clipy asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Clipy against 5.0 for Echo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Clipy ships an update every 2 weeks, Echo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clipy | Echo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Swartz | CNTXT - FZCO |
Customer experience
Clipy
Echo
In-app purchases
Clipy
No in-app purchases
Echo
- Echo Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- Echo Pro Monthly$12.991 Month
- Echo Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year









