Comparison

Sidescreen vs Copy This

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

Head to head
About

Sidescreen

Features
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Sidescreen puts your iPhone or iPad screen on any web browser, instantly. No cables, no viewer app, no accounts. Share a link, and anyone can watch your screen live from their phone, tablet, or computer. Perfect for demos, presentations, teaching, remote help, or just showing a friend what's on your screen. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open your Sidescreen page in any browser and it shows a 6-digit code. 2. Enter the code in the app and tap Connect. 3. Tap Broadcast to go live. Everyone with your link sees your screen in real time. FEATURES • Mirror to any browser. Viewers need nothing installed, just a link. • System-wide broadcast. Share every app, powered by Apple ReplayKit. • Shareable links. Send a link anyone can open, with an optional password. • Live and low-latency. Your screen appears in about a second. • Quality controls. Tune image quality and frame rate for your connection. • Quick setup. Enter a room password to configure everything automatically. • Full control. Stop broadcasting or unpair from a room anytime. • Private by design. A red recording indicator shows whenever you're live. • Universal. One app for iPhone and iPad. GREAT FOR • Demoing an app or product to coworkers and clients • Presenting to a group without a projector or dongle • Teaching and tutorials, so you can show instead of tell • Remote support, letting someone see exactly what you see • Sharing your screen with friends and family Start sharing your screen in seconds. Download Sidescreen and send your first link today.

About

Copy This

Effortlessly save and manage your clipboard history. Automatically captures text, links, and images, offering editing, searching, and sharing options. Pro features include expanded storage, custom expiration, pinning, and iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Automatic clipboard capture
  • Text editing with word/character counts
  • Image zoom and save to Photos
  • Search and sort clips
  • Custom clip expiration
  • iCloud sync
  • Pinned clips
Features
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Copy something, open Copy This, and it is already saved. No taps, no setup, no cleanup later. Every clip becomes a tile: • Automatic capture the moment you open the app: text, links, and images • Tap a text clip to edit it in a clean full page editor with live character and word counts • Pinch to zoom images, or save them straight to Photos • Long press any tile to copy, share, open a link, or delete • Search your text and links by any word, and sort by newest, oldest, or largest • Set your own limits with Copy This Pro: keep up to 2,500 clips or go unlimited, and expire clips after an hour, a day, a week, a month, three months, a year, or keep them forever • Pin the clips that matter with Copy This Pro, and they are never removed automatically • Turn on iCloud sync with Copy This Pro and your clips follow you to your other devices, through iCloud • Clear everything from Settings, behind a confirmation so it never happens by accident Private by design. Copy This has no accounts, no ads, and no analytics, and it never sends anything to a server of ours. With Copy This Pro you can turn on iCloud sync, which keeps your clips in your own private iCloud database, in your Apple Account. It only reads your clipboard when the clipboard has actually changed since it last looked, under iOS's paste permission system, and anything a password manager marks confidential is never recorded. Copy This is free and keeps your latest 10 clips: capture, editing, search, and sharing all work on them. Copy This Pro is a one-time unlock that lets you keep more clips, go unlimited, set your own duration limits, keeps pinned clips out of every cleanup, and adds iCloud sync across your devices. No subscriptions, no ads, no accounts. Your clipboard, kept both fast and easy.

Screenshots

Sidescreen3 screens
Copy This4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sidescreen at none against Copy This's 2. Sidescreen also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Copy This sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Sidescreen asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sidescreen versus Copy This: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSidescreenCopy This
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRunway AppsZain Aaban

In-app purchases

None

Sidescreen

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Copy This

One-time2
  • Copy This Pro$4.99
  • Copy This Pro Family$6.99

Questions

Is Sidescreen free?
Sidescreen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Copy This free?
Copy This is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sidescreen or Copy This have ads?
Neither Sidescreen nor Copy This shows ads.

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