Comparison

Pasteboard Viewer vs System26

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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 The app also hides outdated pasteboard types for a cleaner experience.

Highlights
  • Inspect system pasteboards
  • Live content refresh
  • Preview text, RTF, and images
  • Quick Look preview support
  • Hides obsolete pasteboard types
Features
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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.

About

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.

Screenshots

Pasteboard Viewer4 screens
System263 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pasteboard Viewer versus System26: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPasteboard ViewerSystem26
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSindre SorhusBKO Group Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Pasteboard Viewer

No in-app purchases

None

System26

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pasteboard Viewer free?
Pasteboard Viewer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is System26 free?
System26 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pasteboard Viewer or System26 have ads?
Neither Pasteboard Viewer nor System26 shows ads.

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