Pasteboard Viewer vs Vulkan Capabilities Viewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pasteboard Viewer
This developer utility allows you to inspect system pasteboards, ensuring your app correctly places data. It provides live previews of text, RTF, images, and other content with Quick Look support. The app also hides outdated pasteboard types for a cleaner experience.
- Inspect system pasteboards
- Live content refresh
- Preview text, RTF, and images
- Quick Look preview support
- Hides obsolete pasteboard types
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Inspect the system pasteboard while developing your app. This is a developer utility that lets you inspect the system pasteboard. This can be useful to ensure your app is putting the correct data on UIPasteboard. The app refreshes the pasteboard contents live and can preview text, RTF, images, and anything that has a Quick Look preview. Note that this is not a clipboard manager. If you're not an iOS developer, you probably don't want this app. It hides obsolete system pasteboard types that have modern equivalents. This includes `CorePasteboardFlavorType`, `NSStringPboardType`, `NSFilenamesPboardType`, etc. Known issue: When the app runs on visionOS in compatibility mode, the system may show a lot of “pasted” notifications. This is a system bug.
Vulkan Capabilities Viewer
This tool reports detailed 3D hardware capabilities for developers using Vulkan on iOS devices. It helps ensure compatibility for games and 3D applications across various iOS generations by uploading device reports to a central database.
- Enumerate hardware capabilities
- Report Vulkan features
- Upload device reports
- Check app compatibility
- Open source
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For developers using Vulkan layered over the Metal graphics API, this tool enumerates all the hardware capabilities and limitations of the device it is run on. A report of the current device is uploaded to a central Vulkan Capabilities database at gpuinfo.org where other developers can use this information to ensure their games and 3D apps are ready for as wide a variety of iOS device generations as possible. This software is free and OpenSouce licensed and can be obtained here: https://github.com/SaschaWillems/VulkanCapsViewer
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vulkan Capabilities Viewer at every 2 months against Pasteboard Viewer's every 5 months. Vulkan Capabilities Viewer also leads on iOS requirement (17 vs 26.0). Pasteboard Viewer's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 5). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pasteboard Viewer against 5.0 for Vulkan Capabilities Viewer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 5 respectively.
Pasteboard Viewer ships an update every 5 months, Vulkan Capabilities Viewer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pasteboard Viewer | Vulkan Capabilities Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | LunarG, Inc. |
Customer experience
Pasteboard Viewer
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In-app purchases
Pasteboard Viewer
No in-app purchases
Vulkan Capabilities Viewer
No in-app purchases
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