We analyzed 31 negative reviews from the top 5 Clipboard Manager apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
32% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"You literally have to open the app EVERYTIME you copy something. If you don't, it will NOT save!"
"Only seems to save the clipboard when I open it. Might be a limitation of the iPhone but makes it pretty useless."
19% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Worked great until I updated to 18.1, now every time I try to create an entry, when I hit the ok button, the application instantly crashes"
"After last update it crashed and never open"
16% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I'm afraid that as much as I like this app, it recognizes just a handful of the instances in which I copy text to the clipboard, leaving the clipboard history grossly incomplete"
"App is good but it needs work. I can copy anything but it will only do it once. One example is to try and copy different words on safari and emails. It will only save the last action."
13% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Very handy except it's missing a delete all or delete multiple function. I don't have my copied text saved forever with no way for batch deleting."
"I have no idea how to get any support so I'll just leave this here. Great app- but recently just started crashing when I try and delete any items and on top of that, the items don't delete."
16% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I have to open up the Google Chrome store to use this on my iPhone!🤦🏼♀️ I don't have time for this!"
"Don't see a way to work when using Safari browser? App default is Chrome?"
10% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"As of iOS 14, Clipboard++ items are extremely difficult to edit as most of the text form disappears when using the editor."
"The edit function needs to be fixed when I double tap the text the screen goes blank"
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Users cannot figure out how to select which clipboard item to paste when using the keyboard
"Ok I give up. If you want to fill in an item from this clipboard to your keyboard how do you change which item to paste?"
App creates hidden video screenshots of clippings that don't appear in Photos, raising privacy concerns
"This app creates video screenshots of your clippings every time you open it and saves them, but they won't show up in your photos though. I discovered this by accident. This is very suspicious."
Clipboard history is lost when app is reinstalled, no cloud backup or sync
"Doesn't save when you uninstall then reinstall."
App doesn't save all copied items, only maintains a short list
"The whole point is to save everything I copied not just a short list"
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