Comparison

Pasly vs Deconstruct Sun

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

Head to head
About

Pasly

Features
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Pasly makes your clipboard history available across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Keep important links, text, images, and files within reach without emailing them to yourself or relying on your devices being nearby. With Pasly Cloud, your clipboard history syncs through your private CloudKit database using Apple’s iCloud infrastructure. Pasly does not operate separate servers to store or sync your clipboard content. KEY FEATURES • Smart Clipboard History: Automatically captures text, links, images, and files you copy on your Mac. • Cross-Device Sync: Access your clipboard history across your Macs, iPhone, and iPad, even when the devices are not nearby or connected to the same network. • File Sync: Sync files copied on your Mac through CloudKit, including multiple files at once. • Smart Paste: Bring recent clipboard items directly into your regular Command-V workflow on Mac. • Paste Stack: Copy multiple items and paste them one after another. • Search & Favorites: Quickly find important clipboard items and keep frequently used content close at hand. • Live Activities & Dynamic Island: Keep recent clipboard items accessible from your iPhone Lock Screen or Dynamic Island. • Push Notifications: Get notified when new clipboard content arrives from another device. • Native Apple Experience: Built for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with a fast, familiar interface. PRIVACY FIRST Your clipboard content is stored and synced through your private CloudKit database associated with your iCloud account. It uses Apple’s iCloud infrastructure instead of Pasly-owned clipboard sync servers. On Mac, Pasly can automatically capture supported clipboard content. Due to iOS and iPadOS system restrictions, adding new clipboard items from those devices currently requires a manual action. Make your clipboard history available wherever you work with Pasly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pasly.app/privacy

About

Deconstruct Sun

Analyze solar exposure for any location before building or planting. Trace obstructions on your horizon and receive precise direct sunlight hours for different times of the year. Organize multiple sites into projects and export detailed sun studies.

Highlights
  • Solar site analysis
  • Trace horizon obstructions
  • Direct sunlight hour calculation
  • Year-round sun path visualization
  • Project site grouping
  • PDF sun study export
  • Plant hardiness zone identification
Features
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Know the sun before you build, plant, or place a panel. Deconstruct Sun turns your phone into a solar site-analysis tool. Stand where a garden bed, greenhouse, patio, or solar array will go, trace the buildings and trees on the horizon, and get the number that actually matters: how many hours of direct sunlight that exact spot receives, today, at the solstices, and at the equinoxes. It works the way a designer thinks. The sun's path is drawn as an arc across a sky chart; your obstructions are a skyline you paint over it. Where the sun clears your skyline, it shines. Where a building or a tree blocks it, it doesn't. The math is honest, a five-minute-step calculation over the real solar geometry for your latitude and date. THE NUMBER BEHIND THE PLANT TAG Full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade. Every one of those is a claim about hours of direct sun, and almost every site is guessed at rather than measured. Deconstruct Sun gives you the real figure for one spot, so you can put the right plant in the right place instead of hoping. TRACE THE REAL HORIZON Don't guess the skyline, trace it. Photograph the view, or import a wide shot, and paint the obstructions directly over your own photo. A guided sun-arc sweep walks you through a few framed shots that follow the sun's band across the sky, and a live overlay projects the sun's path onto the camera so you can see where it will travel before you capture. SEE THE WHOLE YEAR One tap shows direct-sun hours for the summer solstice, winter solstice, and both equinoxes, and today, so you can tell a spot that bakes in June but goes dark in December from one that works year-round. WORK A WHOLE PROPERTY Group sites into a project: a foundation bed, a vegetable garden, the pool surround, all under one address or client. Then export a single combined PDF covering every site. It is the difference between a stack of separate studies and one document you can hand over. KNOW THE HARDINESS ZONE Every US site shows its plant hardiness zone, derived from the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map and read from a copy stored inside the app. No connection needed, and your coordinates are never sent anywhere to look it up. A site near a zone boundary is told so, rather than claiming a precision the data doesn't have. SHARE A REAL STUDY Export a clean, branded PDF sun study for a client or your own records, one site at a time or a whole project at once. Or share a photo-real composite of the site with the sun arcs drawn over your skyline. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. Your sites, coordinates, skylines, and photos are never uploaded. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. You can also hide precise coordinates from the app's own screens, and every PDF export asks before printing them, so a study you send to a client need not carry the exact location of someone's home. FREE • Sun-path charts for any location and date • Hand-paint the obstruction skyline • Today's direct-sun, daylight, first-light, and last-light hours • Plant hardiness zone for US sites, offline • Projects, to group sites by property or client • Privacy controls for precise coordinates PRO: a one-time unlock, no subscription • Trace the skyline over your own photos (camera + import) • Guided sun-arc capture with a live sun-path overlay • Full-year seasonal breakdown (solstices and equinoxes) • Photo-real composite and a landscape trace view • Branded PDF sun-study export • Combined multi-site PDF for an entire project Deconstruct Sun does not need an internet connection to do its analysis. Sun position is computed on your device from published astronomical formulas. Hardiness zones are derived from the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (USDA Agricultural Research Service with PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University) and are not the official map. Built by a landscape architect in North Carolina. Questions or feedback: design@deconstructterrain.com

Screenshots

Pasly3 screens
Deconstruct Sun4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pasly at every 3 days against Deconstruct Sun's fortnightly. Deconstruct Sun's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Pasly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Deconstruct Sun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pasly ships an update every 3 days, Deconstruct Sun fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pasly versus Deconstruct Sun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaslyDeconstruct Sun
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntoniel MarianoAndrew Harrell

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pasly

Subscriptions2
  • Pasly Cloud Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pasly Cloud - Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pasly Pro$4.99
1 purchases

Deconstruct Sun

One-time1
  • Pro$11.99

Questions

Is Pasly free?
Pasly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deconstruct Sun free?
Deconstruct Sun is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pasly or Deconstruct Sun have ads?
Neither Pasly nor Deconstruct Sun shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pasly or Deconstruct Sun?
Pasly ships an update every 3 days, and Deconstruct Sun fortnightly. Most recently, Pasly was updated on October 5, 2026 and Deconstruct Sun on September 25, 2026.

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