Comparison

Pasteboard Viewer vs Dandelion

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 The app also hides outdated pasteboard types for a cleaner experience.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

Dandelion

This app allows you to chat with AI models, generate images, browse the web, and perform various tasks using a wide array of tools. It offers offline capabilities and integrates with various AI providers, with an optional subscription for enhanced features.

Highlights
  • AI chat with multiple providers
  • Image and video generation
  • Live web browsing
  • Offline AI model support
  • 280+ integrated tools
  • Human Work board for tasks
  • Durable agent creation
Features
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Dandelion is an agent desk for your iPhone. Open it and it works: the free built-in provider needs no key. CHAT Talk to a model straight away. Dandelion ships with a free built-in provider, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay. Bring your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, Together or xAI if you would rather — or point it at Ollama or LM Studio on your own machine, and those chats stay on your network. Before your words go to any cloud provider for the first time, Dandelion names the company about to receive them, and waits. 280+ TOOLS Your agent can do things, not just talk. It generates images, runs cited deep research, browses the live web with a real browser, remembers what matters, checks its mail, and reaches for whichever of 280+ tools the moment calls for. Results land in the conversation as pictures, video and voice. Your API keys are never shown to the AI model. STUDIO Portrait Studio: pick a photo, describe a scene, and get yourself back somewhere else. Free, five a day. Add your own key and generate images, video and voice too. AGENT Plant a durable agent on the WingMan gateway: claim a handle once, and resume your whole self — identity, memory, mail, persona — in a single call. Change its persona and it talks differently on the very next message. Set a watch and it tells you when something happens. Delete it and its identity, memory, mail, posts and credits are removed from the gateway; public directory listings and some request logs are kept. DISCOVER Templates your agent can run end to end, and a searchable directory of about 1,200 listings — tools, MCP servers, skills and agents. — Free to use. No ads. Keys and secrets live in the Keychain. Chats with your own provider key go straight from your phone to that provider. Chats with the free built-in model, and all agent tools, run through our server, which keeps a log of requests tied to your agent handle, plus short-lived system logs that can include message text for up to 7 days. Portrait photos are sent to a third-party generation service only after you agree. Dandelion Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription, $2.99 per month, that removes the daily cap on identity portraits. The five free portraits a day stay free, always, and every other feature in Dandelion remains free. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://help.wingmanprotocol.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pasteboard Viewer4 screens
Dandelion4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pasteboard Viewer at none against Dandelion's 1. Pasteboard Viewer also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Dandelion's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dandelion sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Pasteboard Viewer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Pasteboard Viewer against 5.0 for Dandelion. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pasteboard Viewer has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pasteboard Viewer ships an update every 5 months, Dandelion fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pasteboard Viewer versus Dandelion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPasteboard ViewerDandelion
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (19 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB3 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSindre SorhusDonald Proctor

Customer experience

Pasteboard Viewer

All ratings20 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dandelion

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pasteboard Viewer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Dandelion

Subscriptions1
  • Dandelion Pro$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Pasteboard Viewer free?
Pasteboard Viewer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dandelion free?
Dandelion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pasteboard Viewer or Dandelion?
Dandelion is rated higher. Pasteboard Viewer averages 4.9 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Dandelion averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pasteboard Viewer or Dandelion have ads?
Neither Pasteboard Viewer nor Dandelion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pasteboard Viewer or Dandelion?
Pasteboard Viewer ships an update every 5 months, and Dandelion fortnightly. Most recently, Pasteboard Viewer was updated on October 25, 2026 and Dandelion on October 25, 2026.

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