Paste vs Clipbara
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Clipbara
Seamlessly sync your clipboard history across Mac and iPhone. Access text, links, images, and colors instantly with a custom keyboard. Organize and search your clips with ease.
- iCloud clipboard sync
- Custom keyboard for quick pasting
- Searchable clip history
- Pinboards for saved items
- Save clips from iPhone via Share sheet
- Private by design with end-to-end encryption
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Clipbara brings your Mac clipboard history to your iPhone. Turn on iCloud sync and the text, links, images and colors you copy on your Mac are ready on your iPhone, along with your pinboards. PASTE IN ANY APP The Clipbara keyboard shows your recent clips and pinboards right where you type. Tap a clip to insert it into Messages, Mail or any other app, then switch back with the globe key. It works without Full Access. iOS shows the same warning for every keyboard that asks for Full Access; Clipbara's keyboard has no letter keys and only uses Full Access to read your own clips from your iCloud. YOUR WHOLE HISTORY Browse everything you copied as cards. Tap a card to copy it. Press and hold to preview, share, rename, pin or copy as plain text. FIND IT FAST Search your history, or filter by text, links, images, colors and files. PINBOARDS Keep signatures, replies, addresses and anything you reuse on named pinboards. They stay in sync with your Mac. SAVE FROM YOUR IPHONE iOS doesn't let apps read the clipboard in the background, so on iPhone you save a clip with the paste button in Clipbara, or from any app with the Share sheet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - iCloud sync is off until you turn it on - Sync uses your own private iCloud database. There is no Clipbara server - Clip contents are encrypted in iCloud - No account, no analytics, no tracking - Content that apps mark as private, such as passwords, is never saved automatically WORKS WITH CLIPBARA FOR MAC On the Mac, Clipbara keeps everything you copy one shortcut away. Sync works with Clipbara from the Mac App Store. TRY IT FIRST Clipbara is free to download with a 7-day trial of every feature. After that, a one-time purchase unlocks it for good. No subscription. One purchase unlocks Clipbara on both your Mac and your iPhone. If the trial ends, Clipbara keeps saving and syncing, so nothing is lost. OPEN SOURCE Clipbara is open source (GPL-3.0): github.com/mobrava/Clipbara Requires iOS 26 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clipbara at 100% against Paste's 53%. 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 Clipbara sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Paste ships an update every 8 days, Clipbara every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paste | Clipbara |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paste Team | MinSang Kim |
Customer experience
Paste
Clipbara
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
Clipbara
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
Clipbara
- 7-day TrialFree
- Clipbara Lifetime$7.99









