Comparison

Pop vs Yap

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
Features
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Pop keeps everything you copy (text, links, images, files, colors) one keypress away on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Your history syncs through your own iCloud. Nothing is uploaded to us. Apple's privacy label says it plainly: Data Not Collected. FREE • 3-day clipboard history • Copy from any app with the Share and Action extensions • Tap to copy a clip back, preview links, edit rich text • Fast search across everything you've saved PRO • Pop Keyboard: paste into any app without switching apps • Batch paste: drop several clips in order with your own separator • Unlimited history, tags, and type filters • Paste as plain text or Markdown, pull text out of images, generate QR codes, copy color values, resize images • On Mac: Cmd+Shift+V opens your history, Option+number pastes recent clips, custom themes, privacy blur for sensitive content THE PRICE One $12.99 purchase. Every future update included. No subscription, ever. Built by an indie developer who uses Pop all day. Download it and the first thing you copy is already saved.

About

Yap

Features
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Say it. Yap writes it. Yap is a voice recorder and transcriber that runs on your iPhone. Record for as long as you need — there is no minute cap on recording or transcription, on any tier — then read it back as text, find it again by meaning, and turn it into a structured AI Note. There is no Yap account and no Yap server. Recording, transcription, speaker separation, search, and AI Notes are all processed on your device. Once the speech assets for your language are installed, capture and transcription keep working in airplane mode. WHAT YAP DOES • Records to a durable audio file that survives a crash or a battery death mid-sentence. • Transcribes on device in every language Apple's on-device speech recognition supports, with per-word timing, so tapping a line plays back the moment it was said. • Separates speakers, so a meeting or an interview reads as a conversation instead of a wall of text. Speakers can be named, merged, or split apart. • Writes an AI Note — title, summary, key points, action items — where every generated line links back to the part of the recording it came from. Tap a key point to hear it. • Searches by meaning rather than only by keyword, and across languages: ask in English, find the note you recorded in Japanese. Every result quotes the passage that matched and plays from the second it was said. • Answers questions about your whole archive, with quoted receipts you can play. • Exports to Markdown, PDF, SRT subtitles, or plain text — one note or the entire archive, mirroring your folders. • Starts from Siri, the Action button, the Lock Screen, or a Home Screen widget. ABOUT AI NOTES AI Notes are written by Apple Intelligence on devices that support it. On other devices Yap uses its own on-device summarizer, which quotes your sentences rather than rewriting them, and Yap tells you which one you got. Machine transcription and machine summaries can be wrong — that is why every line keeps a link back to the recording. YOUR RECORDINGS Recordings, transcripts, and notes are stored in Yap's own storage on your device. Optional sync uses your private iCloud database, and original audio is excluded from it. Your data may also be included in your Apple device backup, which you control in iOS Settings. A deleted note stays recoverable for 30 days. RECORDING RESPONSIBLY Laws about recording other people differ by country and by state, and in many places everyone in the conversation has to agree first. Yap cannot check this for you. That responsibility is yours. YAP PRO Recording and transcription are unmetered on every tier. Pro adds unlimited AI Notes and archive questions, every note template, and Markdown, PDF, and SRT export. Choose monthly, yearly with a free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Yap Terms: https://novarynix.com/yap/terms Privacy Policy: https://novarynix.com/yap/privacy

Screenshots

Pop4 screens
Yap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Pop at 3 against Yap's 1. Pop also leads on iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Pop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Yap sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pop versus Yap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPopYap
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB130 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuru Sidharth Govindaraju雪梅 叶

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pop

One-time2
  • Trial Version (15-days)Free
  • Pro Version$9.99
3 purchases

Yap

Subscriptions2
  • Yap Pro$4.991 Month
  • Yap Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Yap Pro (Lifetime)$69.99

Questions

Is Pop free?
Pop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yap free?
Yap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pop or Yap have ads?
Neither Pop nor Yap shows ads.

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