Comparison

mazec vs Ditto Pasteboard

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

Head to head
About

mazec

This app provides a handwriting input method as an alternative to your keyboard for any application. It offers accurate handwriting recognition, predictive text, and customizable dictionaries to speed up your writing tasks. You can also input emojis and use it for emails, social posts, searches, and filling out forms.

Highlights
  • Real-time handwriting to text conversion
  • Accurate predictive text
  • Customizable learning dictionary
  • Emoji input
  • Works in all applications
  • Handwrite emails, social posts, and searches
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### This is the English handwriting recognition app. Mazec offers you handwriting input as an alternative to your keyboard within any app on your device. If you want to write an email, make a social post or quickly jot your notes, mazec handwriting input technology offers you a speedy alternative to handwrite the message instead of using a keyboard. The Mazec handwriting input method app offers extremely accurate handwriting recognition and predictive text to intelligently guess your handwriting on the fly. It even allows you to enrich the dictionary with your own favorite terms and phrases, or your favorite URL’s and email addresses. Mazec handwriting input method for iOS saves you time writing emails, notes and social posts. Instead of fumbling with a keyboard (which often causes you to use both hands), with mazec all input can be completed with the touch of a finger. Mazec handwriting input provides handwriting conversion while you are on the go. Its advanced technology is due to vast semantic databases built over MyScript, the world leader in handwriting recognition technology. Mazec handwriting input features include: 1. The most advanced experience for real-time conversion of handwriting to text, due to MyScript , the leader of handwriting recognition technology. 2. Extremely accurate predictive text due to natively-authored dictionaries of technical terms and popular phraseology 3. Auto and manual learning dictionary mazec can intelligently “learn” frequently used phrases automatically. You can also ”teach” mazec to memorize short sentences, such as "TYVM" to "Thank you very much" and allows you to customize the user dictionary to your own favorite phrases 4. Emoji input Mazec includes more than just emoticons, but over 100 selected Emojis in 12 categories. Just write "Emoji" or one of category name as "face", "moon", "animal" etc. , then the list of Emojis will pop up. Categories of Emojis include: Faces, Fingers, Weather, Moons, Animals, Hearts, Balls, Fruit, Flowers, Buildings, Trains and Cars 5. Handwriting Input available to all applications on the device Because mazec is written as an input method to iOS, it acts as an alternative keyboard within any application on the device that accepts input. 6. Handwriting Emails and Social Posts Mazec makes writing emails, blogs and social posts quick and fun and saves you time 7. Handwrite Google Searches With the mazec Handwriting Input app, browsing the internet and conducting Google searches has never been easier 8. Quickly fill out web forms and important documents online With mazec, it becomes extremely easy and quick to fill out web forms and critical documents online, thus saving time from printing PDF files and scanning to be sent back 9. Multiple languages The app itself supports English language only. Handwriting recognition add-ons for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), and Korean are available as in-app-purchase apps. We’d love to hear your feedback and feature requests. Email us at: support_anytime@metamoji.com or join our community at https://getsatisfaction.com/mazec

About

Ditto Pasteboard

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What it does: Ditto simplifies transferring and saving your copied items across all your Apple devices to one list on your phone, you can also edit texts that can not be modified on their original page in the app. Stay organized: Every time you copy a word, link, or text on your MacBook, iPad, or iPhone, it is seamlessly registered in the app. Whether you want to make sure that you didn’t lose the last text you copied, or if you do a lot of editing and text transfers to your phone, this app will make it easier and more fun. Need to get back to your copied items? You can use it as a temporary archive for words or texts that need to be kept for a long time. Choose between 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250 & 500 saved entries, hence, never lose a copied item. Chronologically listed, every copied item has a date & time stamp for easier reference. Quick tips: - The app is easy and simple to use, just copy and open the app, and the copied item instantly appears in the app. - Stop using Notes for copied words, passwords, links, phrases, and anything you need to get back to later, let them all go automatically to Ditto. - Copy a longer text on your Mac and then recuperate it from the app to paste it wherever you were working on your phone. - Did you copy text and lost the destination page? You’ll find safe it in Ditto. - All you have to do is open the app after you copy and the item is saved.

Screenshots

mazec4 screens
Ditto Pasteboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ditto Pasteboard at $4.99 against mazec's $12.99. Ditto Pasteboard also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10). mazec's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On 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

mazec costs $12.99 and Ditto Pasteboard $4.99 up front. mazec sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Ditto Pasteboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mazec ships an update every 10 months, Ditto Pasteboard every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
mazec versus Ditto Pasteboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermazecDitto Pasteboard
Price$12.99$4.99 — better
Rating3.6 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMetaMoJi CorporationSana Azmeh

In-app purchases

10 purchases

mazec

One-time10
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Japanese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (French)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (German)$9.99
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  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Italian)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Spanish)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Russian)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Portuguese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Chinese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Korean)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (All languages)$24.99
None

Ditto Pasteboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mazec free?
mazec costs $12.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Ditto Pasteboard free?
Ditto Pasteboard costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do mazec or Ditto Pasteboard have ads?
Neither mazec nor Ditto Pasteboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mazec or Ditto Pasteboard?
mazec ships an update every 10 months, and Ditto Pasteboard every 6 months. Most recently, mazec was updated on September 8, 2026 and Ditto Pasteboard on September 14, 2026.

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