Pasly vs DeskOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pasly
This app synchronizes your clipboard history across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It securely stores and syncs text, links, images, and files using your private iCloud database, making them accessible from any device. Features include smart paste, search, and live activities for quick access.
- Cross-device clipboard sync
- Smart clipboard history capture
- File sync via CloudKit
- Smart Paste and Paste Stack
- Search and Favorites
- Live Activities and Dynamic Island integration
- Native Apple experience
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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
DeskOS
This app provides a flexible desktop workspace on mobile devices, integrating files, a browser, and creative tools. It offers advanced editing capabilities for photos, videos, motion graphics, and vector art, with AI assistance for various tasks. Organize documents, multitask with window management, and connect external displays for an expanded workflow.
- Flexible desktop workspace
- Integrated browser and file manager
- Advanced photo and video editing
- Vector artwork creation
- AI assistant integration
- Multitasking with window management
- External display support
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Unfold your next big idea. DeskOS brings files, a browser and creative tools together in a flexible desktop workspace. MADE FOR A FLEXIBLE SCREEN On iPhone Duo, partially open the device for a desktop above the fold and a laptop-style keyboard and trackpad below. Open fully for a full-screen desktop with movable keyboard and trackpad panels. On other phones, adjust the desktop preview and trackpad balance, or use landscape Desktop mode. Connect a compatible external display for a larger workspace. CREATE IN ONE PLACE • Editly Pro: choose Simplified for familiar multitrack editing, captions, color, sound and MP4 export. Choose Advanced for a fuller timeline workspace, effects, audio mixing and supported interchange formats. The two workspaces use separate project formats. • EditlyPhotos: combine photos and text, edit layers, open supported PSD projects, and save or export your work. Standard PSD imports support up to 512 MB, subject to decoded-layer memory limits. PSB is not supported. • EditlyEffect: build motion compositions with layers, shapes, text, effects and keyframes. Export supported compositions as MP4 or transparent MOV on your device. • EditlyVector: create vector artwork with paths, shapes, type, layers and illustration tools. Save editable projects and export supported vector or image formats. Find saved creative projects in each editor and in Files. Projects and exports have their own app folders. A PERSONAL AI ASSISTANT Connect a supported personal OpenAI or Anthropic API account for help in the selected app. Choose a model, follow up with instructions, and use supported creative actions, file organization and browser form controls. Compatible Google Slides pages have slide selection, creation and editing controls. Email sending requires your review. Available actions vary by app; direct vector-editing actions are not included. Interrupted requests can reconnect without repeating completed edits. iOS may suspend work when you leave DeskOS; return to continue. Force-quitting stops local execution. There is no cloud execution service. FILES AND DOCUMENTS Browse local documents and folders you choose to link. Preview images, video, audio, PDFs and supported Office files. Edit UTF-8 text and code. Add text and signatures to PDFs, print, and save a separate copy. Extract supported ZIP and RAR archives. Copy Gallery items into folders and save compatible media to Photos. BROWSE AND MULTITASK Arrange windows side by side, minimize to the Dock, use desktop search, bookmarks and browser tabs. See download progress and history, reveal downloads in Files, and use compatible upload controls. Adjust Dock size or toggle automatic hiding from its contextual menu. Install or remove optional tools from App Library, including the offline ClassiCube block-building game. WORK YOUR WAY Move, click, scroll, drag and resize from the trackpad. Use two-finger secondary clicks, a keyboard, and supported Command shortcuts. The Duo laptop deck includes F1–F12 and a wider trackpad with side controls. USB-C, HDMI and system screen mirroring require compatible hardware. GOOD TO KNOW DeskOS contains its own tools and website shortcuts; it cannot run arbitrary installed apps in its windows. Keep DeskOS active for an external display. Mouse input depends on iOS events; AssistiveTouch may be required. Website sign-in, uploads, media, DRM and editing support vary by provider. AI is optional and requires internet, consent to share selected content and a supported personal API account. Provider charges apply. Consumer chat subscriptions do not include API access. AI can make mistakes; review results. Conversation and recovery data are stored locally and may be summarized. Projects use local storage; referenced media must remain available. Complexity is limited by device memory. Effect movie exports support up to a 1920-pixel longest edge and 60 fps. Caption models download on first use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pasly at Free against DeskOS's $11.99. DeskOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#53 vs unranked). On rating, 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
Pasly is free to download; DeskOS costs $11.99 up front. Pasly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. DeskOS asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pasly against 5.0 for DeskOS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Pasly ships an update every 3 days, DeskOS every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pasly | DeskOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $11.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #53 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Antoniel Mariano | Mazen Al-Ashbi |
In-app purchases
Pasly
- Pasly Cloud Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pasly Cloud - Annual$29.991 Year
- Pasly Pro$4.99
DeskOS
No in-app purchases









