Paste vs Copy and Paste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paste
This app acts as a universal clipboard manager, saving everything you copy across your devices. It allows you to instantly search, reuse, and share text, links, images, and files, ensuring you never lose important information again. Collaborate with others using shared pinboards and speed up your workflow with intelligent features.
- Syncs clipboard across Mac, iPhone, and iPad
- Intelligent search for copied items
- Access via keyboard and extensions
- Edit and reuse copied content
- Pin frequently used items
- Collaborate with shared pinboards
- Siri Shortcuts integration
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Paste remembers everything you copy — text, links, images, files — on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. So the thing you copied yesterday, last week, or last month is always one shortcut away. Trusted for 10 years by designers, developers, writers, lawyers, and support teams. Recognized by Apple as an "invaluable utility." NEVER LOSE A COPY AGAIN Your clipboard normally holds one item. Paste holds them all. – Unlimited clipboard history across all your devices – Clear visual previews — see exactly what you copied, and where it came from – Rules that automatically skip passwords and other sensitive content FIND ANYTHING IN SECONDS – Search everything you've ever copied — even text inside screenshots and photos – Filter by app, date, device, or content type – Jump straight from a search result to its place in your history PASTE AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT – Open Paste in any app with a single shortcut – Paste recent items instantly with ⌘1–9 – Queue items in Paste Stack and paste them in order — perfect for forms and repetitive work – Paste as plain text whenever you want formatting gone EVERYWHERE YOU WORK – iCloud sync keeps Mac, iPhone, and iPad perfectly in step – Hand off items between devices mid-task – On iOS: the Paste Keyboard brings your whole history into any app – Works seamlessly alongside Universal Clipboard ORGANIZE AND COLLABORATE – Keep the important stuff on Pinboards — snippets, templates, and assets that never expire – Share Pinboards with your team, family, or clients – You decide who can view and who can edit WORKS WITH YOUR AI TOOLS – Connect your clipboard history to Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants with built-in MCP support (Mac) – Polish copied text with Apple Intelligence Writing Tools PRIVATE BY DESIGN – Your data lives on your devices and in your private iCloud — never on our servers – Hide Paste from screen sharing and recordings – Pause capture any time Try Paste free for one week. Subscriptions (monthly or annual), a Family plan, and a one-time Lifetime purchase unlock everything on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. "I don't know how I lived without it" — the thing users tell us most. Copy something. You'll see. Learn more: pasteapp.io Say hello: pasteapp.io/contact or @paste_app on X Terms: pasteapp.io/terms
Copy and Paste
This app simplifies copying and pasting frequently used text. It offers a keyboard with pre-saved lists for chat phrases, personal information, and passwords, enhanced with fun input effects.
- Common chat phrase list
- Personal information list
- Password saving
- Fancy input effects (repeat, emoji, vertical, echo)
- Simplified copy-paste process
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Very small and efficient app. "Copy and Paste" For Keyboard. Fancy input effects!!! - Common List for Chat, Fancy input effects!!! Copy and paste frequently used chat sentences and add them to the "common" list, with fancy input effects 【repeat/emoji/vertical/echo】, especially suitable for social scenes. - Personal List for Registration Edit personal information in advance in the "personal" list of the keyboard, such as name, telephone number, email address, social, etc., especially for scene such as website registration and online ticket purchase. - Passwords List You can save the corresponding passwords for some special websites or software, hide them on the keyboard, and avoid forgetting the password. Simplify your "Copy and Paste" process. Make your chat more fun by fancy input effects. For more technical support, please contact copypaste@outlook.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Copy and Paste at none against Paste's 6. Copy and Paste also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26.0). Paste's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (53% vs 32%). On price, 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. Paste sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Copy and Paste asks for nothing beyond the download.
Copy and Paste holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 3.3K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Paste's written reviews are positive against 32% of Copy and Paste's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Paste ships an update weekly, Copy and Paste monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paste | Copy and Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.3K ratings) | 4.6 (3.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.4% of reviews — better | 31.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K | 3.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paste Team | JIANGYONG LIU21021539842 |
Customer experience
Paste
Copy and Paste
User reviews
Paste
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Excellent clipboard management
- 🚀 Seamless cross-device sync
- 💡 Customizable pinboards for frequently used items
- 🎨 Visually appealing interface
- ⏱️ Significant time-saving in workflow
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 🐛 Reliability issues with crashes and syncing
- 🔍 Limited search and organization capabilities
- 📱 Inferior mobile app experience compared to desktop
- 🔄 Frustration with forced updates and loss of functionality
Copy and Paste
From 3.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good app
- 🤍 Helpful for Roblox
- 🤍 Awesome game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 📢 Too many ads
- 🤖 Laggy and freezes
- 🚫 Doesn't work properly
- 🚫 Unusable app
Bugs and requests
Paste
Reported bugs
5 issues- Clipboard history not syncing reliably across devices
- App crashes on launch or during use
- Paste keyboard extension not working as expected
- Compatibility issues with newer macOS and iOS versions
- Copied content not always preserving formatting
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to edit and rename copied items
- Improved search and filtering options
- Keyboard shortcuts for quick access
- Better integration with other productivity apps
- Secure deletion of sensitive clipboard data
Copy and Paste
Reported bugs
3 issues- Keyboard not showing up
- Freezing and lagging issues
- Copy-paste not working
Requested features
3 requests- Remove ads
- Improve performance and stability
- Fix copy-paste functionality
In-app purchases
Paste
- Monthly Plan (Mac + iOS)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Legacy Plan1 Year trial$9.991 Year
- Annual Plan (Mac + iOS)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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- Annual Plan (Mac + iOS)1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- Family Plan7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Lifetime Plan (Mac+iOS)$89.99
Copy and Paste
No in-app purchases









