Pasteboard Viewer vs System26
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 The app also hides outdated pasteboard types for a cleaner experience.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.
System26
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System26 is a lightweight way to see device-native AI performance on your hardware. Designed for developers and enthusiasts, it surfaces on-device AI metrics across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. Features: • Large Language Models: Track Tokens Per Second (TPS), Latency, and Memory usage for the native System Language Model. • Image Generation: See on-device image synthesis speed using ImagePlayground with support for animation, illustration, and sketch styles. • Computer Vision: View live camera inference performance for Object Detection, Text Recognition, and Body Pose estimation. • Thermal Monitoring: Keep an eye on your device's thermal state during intensive inference tasks. • 100% Private & Offline: System26 operates without an internet connection. No data is collected, stored, or transmitted—ever. Unlock the full potential of your hardware and see how foundation models run on your machine.
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Verdict
Pasteboard Viewer and System26 are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Pasteboard Viewer | System26 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | BKO Group Inc. |
In-app purchases
Pasteboard Viewer
No in-app purchases
System26
No in-app purchases









