Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop

Quick keyboard shortcut, Lacks search option to be quickest

Yoink used to be an amazing app. Unfortunately, it looks like its development was abandoned… There haven’t been updates in over a year. In my opinion, one of its main funcionalities is the widget that allows us to quickly add and retrive text from clipboard history. The app still hasn’t updated to the new widgets introduced on ios 15 or 14… Maybe now, with iOS 17, the developer will update it to have interactive widgets.

Yoink is so useful I dont know how I managed without it. It saves clipboard snippets, files and other bits and pieces from other apps and none and presents them for use just as though I'd put a scrap of information or a whole book on the desk beside me. There's so little to it and yet Yoink fulfils a vital role that's missing from the IOS operating system. When I had an issue, that turned out to be entirely my own misunderstanding, the developer responded promptly, fully and politely to my questions. I also have the MacOS version of Yoink and it's equally versatile making it, on both platforms, an essential tool for those many times a day when I want to transfer things from one app to another in a multitude of formats.

I no longer have to delve into my labyrinthine filing system to access papers for a meeting. They’re all in a Yoink stack labelled with the title of the meeting and the date. It’s a game changer. Just need to figure out the Mac/iOS integration now.

This app is integral to my use of the iPad, more than anything else. Moving files around, saving items temporarily, finding something on your iPhone when you saved it on your iPad, and so much more. These are things I do every day, and having a single app to interface between all my other apps makes life so much easier. I simply cannot recommend this app highly enough, despite it’s nonsensical name! Don’t be put off by that, you will use this app every single day! (This review applies to the iOS versions for iPad and iPhone - I do not feel the same about the Mac version!).

Easy to use with a few nice power touches, like being able to scan a document using the camera. (Yup, I could use Notes, but I don’t always want to create a note). Contacted the developer with a question, and he got back to me in about a minute and half, so I can’t fault the device. 🙂

As a Mac user of Yoink for a few years I seemed to have missed the iOS version but am so glad to have found it. Super useful and easy to use. Take a bit of time to discover how it work (if you’re not familiar with shelf apps) as it is soooo convenient. iCloud sync is fast and enhances the experience as you can just pick copied items from any of your devices to use in another app on another device. Having it all in one place is how I like to work so it’s great for me. I had a small issue with bringing up the Yoink keyboard when using a Smart Keyboard on my iPad but the developer responded in about 10 minutes with a solution !!! Proper customer service. If you need this kind of app, this is the best, imho, and certainly the easiest to use.

I do not want to allow notifications. This is why I tapped not to allow notifications. Not a difficult concept to understand. 8 times in the last 20 minutes yoink asks again if I would like to allow notifications. NO I WOULD NOT....PLEASE STOP ASKING

I have an iPhone, Mac and iPad. I bought this as it seemed like a useful tool for cross device practicality. It didn’t live up to expectations. The Mac app works great because it is there whenever I drag an item. Obviously an iOS device can’t action that. That is my first gripe; its very cumbersome compared to airdrop/handoff. Second; in the app, I don’t want an iPhone workspace and an iPad workspace. I just want one iCloud workspace (that can also pick up files on my Mac). Thirdly, with iOS handoff and airdrop technologies it makes this app massively underused. If I press copy anywhere on my iPhone and press paste on my iPad, it just works with handoff. Compare that to this app, where you have to purposely share, open that today widget, or open the app itself. Then if I saved on my iPhone, I have to open up my iPad open the app change the default workspace from iPad to iPhone just to see the contents. I know a lot of my points here are actually iOS limitations, but just having one iCloud workspace would make this a lot more practical for me, especially if I could pick up the iPad and iPhone workspaces from my Mac.

Pros: It does what it says on the box. Also, seamless syncing between devices. Definitely give this a try if you’re looking to be more productive on iOS. Cons: All that’s missing is an iMessage app to easily share stuff directly from within iMessage. Side note: developer seems like a nice guy and is v approachable.