Yam Pad Mini vs CleanPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yam Pad Mini
Transform your iPhone into a compact drawing tablet for your Mac. Utilize stylus input, touch gestures, and even simulate a Touch Bar for enhanced creative control. Connect via USB for a fast and reliable drawing experience with compatible Mac applications.
- iPhone as a drawing tablet
- Wacom stylus and 3D Touch support
- Touch gestures for zoom and pan
- Fast USB connection
- Full screen mirroring
- Touch Bar simulation
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# Mini version of Yam Pad for iPhone # # Requires a Mac for Drawing # iPhone as a mini Drawing Tablet for Mac via USB! Support Wacom stylus and 3D Touch for various Mac apps for drawing. Zoom or pan canvas by finger gestures on your iPhone while mirroring the whole screen. Fast and simple USB connection will let you focus on your creative expression. Key Features: - Wacom stylus & 3D Touch - Touch Gestures: Zoom/Scroll/Undo/Redo - Fast and secure USB connection - Mirror full screen with Retina resolution - Bluetooth keyboard input from iOS device - Touch Bar Simulation (for any Mac with macOS 10.12.2+) Mac Apps compatible: - Photoshop - Affinity Photo - Illustrator - SketchBook - Corel Painter - Lightroom - Toon Boom Harmony - MediBang Paint - Clip Studio Paint - ZBrush - MarginNote 3 - and more... (let us know your favorite) Stylus supported: - Wacom (pressure sensitivity, buttons) System Requirements: - iPhones/iPods with iOS 8.0 or later - Macs with OS X 10.9 or later (with USB port) Download app for Mac from: yamdisplay.com/yampad (free) For any questions or suggestions: help@yamdisplay.com
CleanPad
Capture your thoughts, ideas, and memories in a cozy and secure digital space. This app offers a minimalist interface with customizable categories and enhanced privacy features, including automatic locking and biometric authentication for your notes.
- Cozy and customizable design
- Distraction-free editing
- Note categorization and tagging
- Automatic private note locking
- Biometric authentication
- Local storage for privacy
- Grid and list view options
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CleanPad is thoughtfully designed to provide a cozy and secure space for capturing your thoughts, ideas, and memories. With its inviting design and focus on privacy, it feels like a personal sanctuary for note-taking. CleanPad features a minimalist interface that helps you focus on what truly matters. With customizable categories, enhanced privacy, and an experience designed to feel at home, CleanPad makes keeping your thoughts organized simple and intuitive. Features: • Cozy Design: A warm, thoughtfully crafted interface that feels at home and transitions seamlessly between light and dark modes. • Streamlined Editing: A clean and distraction-free Edit Screen for updating titles and content, as well as categorizing, sharing, or deleting your notes. • Categories: Organize your notes with ease. Create, edit, and delete categories, then filter your notes using beautiful color-coded tags. • Private Notes: Keep personal notes in a protected space that locks automatically when you leave the app and supports Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode for secure access. • Seamless Navigation: The Dock keeps everything within reach, letting you navigate your notes, access categories, and create new notes with ease. • Local Storage: Your notes stay exclusively on your device, keeping your thoughts personal and private. • Customizable Views: Switch effortlessly between grid and list views to organize your notes your way. NOTE: List View is available only on iOS. • Quick Actions: Long-press a note to quickly share it, move it to or remove it from the private space, or delete it. • VoiceOver Support: Enhanced accessibility features help make CleanPad inclusive and easy to navigate with VoiceOver. Rediscover the joy of note-taking with CleanPad, a place where your ideas and memories stay private, accessible, and beautifully organized.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CleanPad at 5.0 against Yam Pad Mini's 4.3. CleanPad also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Yam Pad Mini's advantage is ratings volume (108 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CleanPad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yam Pad Mini has 108 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Yam Pad Mini ships an update every 2 months, CleanPad monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yam Pad Mini | CleanPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (108 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yamstu Inc. | Uriel Alejandro Ortega Aguilar |
Customer experience
Yam Pad Mini
CleanPad
Bugs and requests
Yam Pad Mini
Reported bugs
9 issues- Awful input lag
- Keeps asking to be rated
- Stop telling me to buy the iPad version
- Laggy and has a pop up
- Can't get inside the app
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- App won't leave me alone
- Doesn't want you to use iPad, you will have to rate every min !!
- Keeps interrupting me
- Works well but keeps giving me a pop up every 2 seconds to get the iPad version really annoying
Requested features
4 requests- Support full resolution for iPad 11 inch 2020
- Move cursor by hovering Apple Pencil
- Customizable bar with additional keys (Alt, Cmd, Shift, Right click)
- Option to remove the big arrow when filming videos
CleanPad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yam Pad Mini
No in-app purchases
CleanPad
No in-app purchases
