Comparison

Paste vs Runway assistant

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

Head to head
About

Paste

This app extends your device's clipboard to store an unlimited history of everything you copy, including text, links, images, and files. It offers powerful search, organization, and cross-device synchronization to ensure you never lose a copied item and can access it instantly.

Highlights
  • Unlimited clipboard history
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Visual previews of copied items
  • Searchable clipboard content
  • Organize with Pinboards
  • Paste Stack for queued items
  • AI tool integration
Features
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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

About

Runway assistant

This app prioritizes your day by visualizing remaining time against commitments. It distinguishes between time-bound commitments and flexible todos, offering intelligent follow-ups and personalized task suggestions based on urgency and importance.

Highlights
  • Visual daily planner
  • Commitment vs. todo distinction
  • Smart follow-up check-ins
  • Urgency and importance prioritization
  • Configurable repeating tasks
  • Speech and text input capture
Features
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Most task apps wait to be asked. This one speaks first. It holds your commitments and your todos, works out what deserves your attention right now, and follows up afterwards to find out what actually happened. THE DAY, NOT THE LIST The home screen is what's left of today, drawn to scale: the time you still have, set against everything you still owe. When a meeting runs long, it recomputes. When you say you're spent, it surfaces the work that doesn't ask much of you. COMMITMENTS AND TODOS ARE DIFFERENT THINGS A commitment occupies a block of wall-clock time. You can be in only one at once, and two of them can conflict. A todo comes due at a moment but reserves no time, so todos never conflict and can pile up. Calling someone at 8pm is a todo. Dinner is a commitment. Collapse the two into "tasks" and you lose the ability to say when a day simply will not fit. When something has been carried for weeks without moving, promote it — give it real time on the calendar, with a find-a-time flow that works around what is already there. CHECK-INS: WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED At the end of a commitment or a todo, you get one question. Did this happen? Done, partly, didn't happen, still going. One tap, answerable from the Lock Screen. Your answers are the only thing the app treats as fact. Nothing is inferred from your location, your motion or your Focus mode. And when check-ins go unanswered, it says so — that today's plan is built from intentions rather than facts — instead of showing you a stale day and calling it accurate. IMPORTANCE AND URGENCY ARE NOT ONE AXIS Importance is how much follows from something not happening. You declare it, and it holds. Urgency is how close something is to being too late — read from the clock, never declared, always current. Kept apart, so "quiet but consequential" and "loud but trivial" never look alike. Add energy level, place and category, and you can ask the question that actually comes up: what can I do at my computer, in twenty minutes, while I'm tired? TWO KINDS OF REPEATING Fixed recurrence comes from the calendar alone — the last Friday of every month, whether or not you did the last one. Completion recurrence measures from when you actually finished: two weeks after the grass was last cut. Finish late and the next one moves late. They are different machines, and they behave differently. CAPTURE THAT DOESN'T INTERROGATE YOU Speak or type. It never stops mid-sentence to ask a clarifying question. It makes a guess, then shows you the guess, labelled, so you can correct it later at no cost. "I guessed the time." Nothing reaches your calendar without your confirmation first. IT INTERRUPTS ON A BUDGET There is a limit to how much of your attention it will spend on its own initiative each day. That budget contracts when you stop responding and expands when you engage. Nothing it declines to interrupt with is discarded — it waits somewhere that costs you nothing, and you can always ask why a given thing didn't fire. When one prompt goes unanswered, it grows more persistent rather than louder: a notification, then time-sensitive, then a Live Activity pinned to your Lock Screen until you answer it. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No login. No server. Your data lives on your device and syncs only across your own devices. There is no team, no sharing, no collaborators and nothing to sign up for. Your history is yours to delete at any time, and deleting it won't break your recurring items. Commitments are written into your system calendar, so they appear on your Watch, in CarPlay and anywhere else you already look — always after you've confirmed it, and always saying why. Requires iOS 26 or later. iPhone only.

Screenshots

Paste4 screens
Runway assistant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Runway assistant at 100% against Paste's 53%. Runway assistant also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). Paste's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Paste is free to download; Runway assistant costs $3.99 up front. Paste sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Runway assistant asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Runway assistant holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paste has 1.3K ratings behind it against 4, 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 100% of Runway assistant's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paste ships an update every 8 days, Runway assistant every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Paste versus Runway assistant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPasteRunway assistant
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.2 (1.3K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaste TeamMilad Hosseinpour

Customer experience

Paste

All ratings1,345 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative17.1%
Written reviews797 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral6.5%
Negative40.2%

Runway assistant

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Runway assistant

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Paste

Subscriptions5
  • 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
One-time1
  • Lifetime Plan (Mac+iOS)$99.99
None

Runway assistant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paste free?
Paste is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Runway assistant free?
Runway assistant costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Paste or Runway assistant?
Runway assistant is rated higher. Paste averages 4.2 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Runway assistant averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Paste or Runway assistant have ads?
Neither Paste nor Runway assistant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paste or Runway assistant?
Paste ships an update every 8 days, and Runway assistant every 3 weeks. Most recently, Paste was updated on November 13, 2026 and Runway assistant on November 13, 2026.

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