Pasteboard Viewer vs Symbolero
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 The app also hides outdated pasteboard types for a cleaner experience.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.
Symbolero
Explore and customize Apple's SF Symbols on your iPhone or iPad. Preview symbols with different weights, colors, and styles, and visualize animations in real-time. This tool streamlines the design workflow by providing instant access to essential symbol references.
- Instant SF Symbols gallery
- On-device customization (weights, colors, styles)
- Animation playground with real-time previews
- Browse SF Symbols collection
- Visualize symbol motion
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Symbolero: SF Symbols Explorer for Designers & Developers Browse, customize, and animate Apple's SF Symbols directly on your iPhone or iPad: • Instant Symbol Gallery Access the complete SF Symbols collection with lightning speed • On-Device Customization Preview any symbol in multiple weights, colors, and hierarchical styles • Animation Playground Visualize symbol motion with real-time animation previews Empower your design workflow with essential symbol references – anytime, anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Symbolero at fortnightly against Pasteboard Viewer's every 5 months. Pasteboard Viewer's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Pasteboard Viewer against 5.0 for Symbolero. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pasteboard Viewer has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Pasteboard Viewer ships an update every 5 months, Symbolero fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pasteboard Viewer | Symbolero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | 伟琛 蒋 |
Customer experience
Pasteboard Viewer
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In-app purchases
Pasteboard Viewer
No in-app purchases
Symbolero
No in-app purchases
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