Pasteboard Viewer vs Bluetooth Developer
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 The app also hides outdated pasteboard types for a cleaner experience.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.
Bluetooth Developer
Explore and understand Bluetooth devices around you. Discover nearby devices, view their manufacturer data and signal strength, and connect to read out information. Identify device types and potential manufacturers before connecting.
- Find nearby Bluetooth devices
- View manufacturer data and signal strength
- Connect and read device data
- Identify device types
- Read advertisement data
- Analyze services and characteristics
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The Bluetooth Developer App is made to help you developing with Bluetooth devices and understanding how they work. You can: - Find & see nearby devices - View manufacturer data and signal strength - Connect and read out data - See before connecting if a device is possible an apple device - See what kind of device (TV, Headphones, Heartbeat-Sensor, Monitor) a device is before connecting - Read out advertisement data - See information about services and characteristics - Read out characteristic values and parse them Requires permission to use Bluetooth features of your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pasteboard Viewer at 5.0 against Bluetooth Developer's 4.0. Pasteboard Viewer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and device support (3 vs 1). Bluetooth Developer's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Pasteboard Viewer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Pasteboard Viewer's written reviews are positive against 71% of Bluetooth Developer's.
Pasteboard Viewer ships an update every 5 months, Bluetooth Developer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pasteboard Viewer | Bluetooth Developer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better | 4.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | Matthias Zarzecki |
Customer experience
Pasteboard Viewer
Bluetooth Developer
In-app purchases
Pasteboard Viewer
No in-app purchases
Bluetooth Developer
No in-app purchases
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