Comparison

mazec vs Plain Copy for Safari

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

Head to head
About

mazec

This app provides a handwriting input method as an alternative to your keyboard for any application. It offers accurate handwriting recognition, predictive text, and customizable dictionaries to speed up your writing tasks. You can also input emojis and use it for emails, social posts, searches, and filling out forms.

Highlights
  • Real-time handwriting to text conversion
  • Accurate predictive text
  • Customizable learning dictionary
  • Emoji input
  • Works in all applications
  • Handwrite emails, social posts, and searches
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### This is the English handwriting recognition app. Mazec offers you handwriting input as an alternative to your keyboard within any app on your device. If you want to write an email, make a social post or quickly jot your notes, mazec handwriting input technology offers you a speedy alternative to handwrite the message instead of using a keyboard. The Mazec handwriting input method app offers extremely accurate handwriting recognition and predictive text to intelligently guess your handwriting on the fly. It even allows you to enrich the dictionary with your own favorite terms and phrases, or your favorite URL’s and email addresses. Mazec handwriting input method for iOS saves you time writing emails, notes and social posts. Instead of fumbling with a keyboard (which often causes you to use both hands), with mazec all input can be completed with the touch of a finger. Mazec handwriting input provides handwriting conversion while you are on the go. Its advanced technology is due to vast semantic databases built over MyScript, the world leader in handwriting recognition technology. Mazec handwriting input features include: 1. The most advanced experience for real-time conversion of handwriting to text, due to MyScript , the leader of handwriting recognition technology. 2. Extremely accurate predictive text due to natively-authored dictionaries of technical terms and popular phraseology 3. Auto and manual learning dictionary mazec can intelligently “learn” frequently used phrases automatically. You can also ”teach” mazec to memorize short sentences, such as "TYVM" to "Thank you very much" and allows you to customize the user dictionary to your own favorite phrases 4. Emoji input Mazec includes more than just emoticons, but over 100 selected Emojis in 12 categories. Just write "Emoji" or one of category name as "face", "moon", "animal" etc. , then the list of Emojis will pop up. Categories of Emojis include: Faces, Fingers, Weather, Moons, Animals, Hearts, Balls, Fruit, Flowers, Buildings, Trains and Cars 5. Handwriting Input available to all applications on the device Because mazec is written as an input method to iOS, it acts as an alternative keyboard within any application on the device that accepts input. 6. Handwriting Emails and Social Posts Mazec makes writing emails, blogs and social posts quick and fun and saves you time 7. Handwrite Google Searches With the mazec Handwriting Input app, browsing the internet and conducting Google searches has never been easier 8. Quickly fill out web forms and important documents online With mazec, it becomes extremely easy and quick to fill out web forms and critical documents online, thus saving time from printing PDF files and scanning to be sent back 9. Multiple languages The app itself supports English language only. Handwriting recognition add-ons for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), and Korean are available as in-app-purchase apps. We’d love to hear your feedback and feature requests. Email us at: support_anytime@metamoji.com or join our community at https://getsatisfaction.com/mazec

About

Plain Copy for Safari

This Safari extension copies text from your browser without any formatting. It automatically removes styling like font, size, color, and links, ensuring clean pastes into other applications. Easily manage formatting preferences on a per-site basis.

Highlights
  • Copy text without formatting
  • Automatically reset styling (size, color, font, weight)
  • Preserve new lines
  • Paste cleanly into other apps
  • Site-specific activation/deactivation
  • Simple and fast activation
Features
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• Plain Copy is a simple Safari extension that can copy any text from your browser to the clipboard without formatting. It will automatically reset the size, color, font, weight, and links • • Available on all your devices, on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac computer • When you paste something from the web into a word processing app or an email, the content looks out of place because of the inherited formatting. Plain Copy solves this problem, and you do not have to use special commands - just activate the extension and everything is done for you automatically. Simple and fast. FEATURES • Copy text without formatting from your browser to the clipboard. Automatically reset the color, size, weight, or font face while keeping the new lines • Paste content to any other iOS app (like Word, Email, or Keynote) without breaking the existing format • You can optionally deactivate this feature for any site while keeping it active for other sites • Select and copy content the way you are used to, just activate the app, and you are good to go SUPPORT We read your support emails every day, day by day. Write with confidence any question, feedback, or complaint, and you will receive an answer in a very short period of time.

Screenshots

mazec4 screens
Plain Copy for Safari1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: mazec at 64% against Plain Copy for Safari's 0%. mazec also leads on rating (3.6 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (43 vs 1). Plain Copy for Safari's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $12.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On 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

mazec costs $12.99 and Plain Copy for Safari $1.99 up front. mazec sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Plain Copy for Safari asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

mazec holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mazec has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of mazec's written reviews are positive against 0% of Plain Copy for Safari's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mazec ships an update every 10 months, Plain Copy for Safari monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
mazec versus Plain Copy for Safari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermazecPlain Copy for Safari
Price$12.99$1.99 — better
Rating3.6 (43 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews63.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings43 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMetaMoJi CorporationDenk Alexandru

Customer experience

mazec

All ratings43 ratings
Positive62.8%
Neutral7.0%
Negative30.2%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive63.9%
Neutral6.0%
Negative30.1%

Plain Copy for Safari

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

mazec

One-time10
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Japanese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (French)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (German)$9.99
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  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Italian)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Spanish)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Russian)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Portuguese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Chinese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Korean)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (All languages)$24.99
None

Plain Copy for Safari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mazec free?
mazec costs $12.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Plain Copy for Safari free?
Plain Copy for Safari costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, mazec or Plain Copy for Safari?
mazec is rated higher. mazec averages 3.6 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while Plain Copy for Safari averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do mazec or Plain Copy for Safari have ads?
Neither mazec nor Plain Copy for Safari shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mazec or Plain Copy for Safari?
mazec ships an update every 10 months, and Plain Copy for Safari monthly. Most recently, mazec was updated on November 1, 2026 and Plain Copy for Safari on November 3, 2026.

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