Paste vs XClip
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
XClip
Manage clipboard history and pre-written text snippets directly from your keyboard. Includes an integrated calculator for quick calculations within text fields. Optimized for a small size and offline use.
- Clipboard history management
- Snippet text management
- Integrated calculator
- Offline operation
- Small app size (<1MB)
- Picture-in-picture clipboard monitoring
- Dark mode support
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XClip is a clipboard history and snippet text management tool. Through XClip, you can quickly input predetermined text and clipboard history content on the keyboard, and you can also use a calculator in the input textfield to calculate. For an excellent user experience, XClip App has made the following optimizations: 1. Developed natively with SwiftUI, it does not contain third-party components and libraries, so it is very small, less than 1M. 2. The whole process runs offline, and there will be no pop-up window requesting to connect to the Internet on the mobile phone. 3. Does not read any data of the user except the clipboard, and does not require any permissions. 4. Use picture-in-picture to monitor the clipboard in the background, and record the history of the clipboard without returning to the app in frequently copied scenes. 5. Fully adapt to the night mode, and the black and white theme will automatically switch with the system. The developer will continue to optimize this app, please feel free to use an app that does not require networking. Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: XClip at 4.9 against Paste's 4.2. XClip also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and review sentiment (83% vs 53%). Paste's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 12) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 and XClip sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
XClip holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paste has 1.3K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Paste's written reviews are positive against 83% of XClip's.
Paste ships an update weekly, XClip every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paste | XClip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.3K ratings) | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Paste Team | 祥 王 |
Customer experience
Paste
XClip
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
XClip
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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)$99.99
XClip
- XClip Premium$1.991 Year
- XClip Premium$5.99








