Comparison

Pop vs Scratchpad

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

Head to head
About

Pop

This app revolutionizes your copy and paste experience by efficiently storing and synchronizing clipboard history across multiple Apple devices. Access text snippets, links, and images instantly, with advanced features for professionals and creatives.

Highlights
  • 3-Day Clipboard History
  • Multi-Platform Access (macOS, iOS)
  • Share Extension & Actions
  • Universal Keyboard Extension
  • Contextual Actions (formatting, QR codes)
  • Batch Pasting
  • Advanced Search
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Are you constantly switching between apps to find the right text, image, or link that you copied, only to lose track of what you need to paste? Meet Pop - Paste, Organize, Perform, your essential clipboard manager that revolutionizes your copy and paste experience. Designed for students, professionals, and creatives alike, Pop is the ultimate solution for handling text snippets across multiple Apple devices, ensuring every piece of information is just a keypress away. Pop is seamlessly integrated into your Apple ecosystem, enhancing your copy paste workflow without the need for tedious setup or accounts. With Pop, all your clipboard history is efficiently stored and synchronized across your MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS devices using iCloud, allowing for swift access to all your important content across platforms. Basic Version Features: - 3-Day Clipboard History: Keep track of items you copied over the past three days, reducing the hassle of re-copying content. This clipboard manager ensures that no snippet is left behind in your clipboard history. - Multi-Platform Access: Benefit from seamless functionality on your MacOS and iOS devices. With the "Copy to Pop" share sheet, copy and paste becomes easier than ever. - Share Extension & Actions: Select text snippets, links, images, and more, then easily choose “Pop” or “Copy to Pop” in the share sheet for quick pasting. - Click-to-Copy: Streamline your workflow by clicking to copy text and swiftly paste it anywhere, optimizing how you use clipboards daily. Pro Version Features: - Universal Keyboard Extension: Instantly find and insert your saved clips directly from the Universal Keyboard Extension, no matter where you're typing. Copy and paste efficiently with this intuitive feature. - Contextual Actions: Perform secondary actions directly from the clipboard, including formatting removal, Markdown pasting, image resizing, QR code generation, and color value pasting. - Batch Pasting: Choose multiple clips for sequential pasting using customizable separator keys such as commas or new lines with the Pro keyboard extension, perfect for frequent snippet management. - Multi-tasking Support: Utilize Pop in split view or slide over mode on iPadOS for seamless multitasking. Drag and drop clips to fit your workflow, enhancing how you manage your clipboard. - Advanced Search: Find any clipboard item instantly using our quick search algorithm and type filtering, making it easier than ever to locate text snippets. With Pop, every copied item is just a tap away, transforming how you manage clipboard tasks. Whether you're building presentations, organizing research, or crafting creative content, Pop ensures you never lose track of your clipboard content. Elevate your productivity today by downloading Pop and experience the powerful features of this highly efficient clipboard manager. Don't wait—streamline your copy and paste operations with Pop today!

About

Scratchpad

Capture fleeting thoughts and ideas instantly with a clean, distraction-free interface. This lightweight app offers quick drafting, word counts, and iCloud sync for seamless access across devices. It's designed for simplicity and speed, making note-taking effortless.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free interface
  • Lightning-fast and lightweight
  • iCloud sync
  • Word and character count
  • Linkifies URLs
  • Shortcuts and share sheet support
Features
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Capture your thoughts instantly in a single, always-accessible note. Perfect for brain dumps, quick drafts, one-off jots, and fleeting ideas. Your thoughts are just a tap away. • Clean, distraction-free interface • Lightning-fast and lightweight • Sync with iCloud, or not • Word and character count • Font settings • Linkifies URLs • Support for Shortcuts and share sheet Plain text only. Simple by design.

Screenshots

Pop4 screens
Scratchpad2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pop at Free against Scratchpad's $10.00. Pop also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). Scratchpad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (25 vs 6). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and device support 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

Pop is free to download; Scratchpad costs $10.00 up front. Pop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Scratchpad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Pop's written reviews are positive against 96% of Scratchpad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pop ships an update weekly, Scratchpad every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pop versus Scratchpad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPopScratchpad
PriceFree — better$10.00
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.8 (25 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better96.0% of reviews
Number of ratings625 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuru Sidharth GovindarajuSindre Sorhus

Customer experience

Pop

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Scratchpad

All ratings25 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive96.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pop

One-time2
  • Trial Version (15-days)Free
  • Pro Version$9.99
None

Scratchpad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pop free?
Pop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scratchpad free?
Scratchpad costs $10.00, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pop or Scratchpad?
Pop is rated higher. Pop averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Scratchpad averages 4.8 from 25 ratings.
Do Pop or Scratchpad have ads?
Neither Pop nor Scratchpad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pop or Scratchpad?
Pop ships an update weekly, and Scratchpad every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pop was updated on June 1, 2026 and Scratchpad on September 21, 2026.

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