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Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop is #14 in Productivity Paid in Russia and charting in 13 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
25 Sep 2026Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop update history & changes
Last change · 31 events since 12 Oct 2017Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 31 events
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · RU
- 🚀Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop: now shown next to Clipboard Manager - ClipBox, Quick Note App, CopyPaste - Paste Quickly Now +3 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · SA
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · ID
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · FR
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · ES
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · VN
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop new best rank in the overall chart: #110Top Paid · All Apps · VN
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · TW
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop charting in a new countryTaiwan
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop new best rank in the overall chart: #149Top Paid · All Apps · JP
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · ES
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop charting in a new countryMalaysia
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop charting in a new country in 5 chartsArgentina · Australia · Colombia · Poland · +1 more
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · AU · Top Paid · Productivity · BR
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · AE
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop new best rank in the overall chart: #150Top Paid · All Apps · BR
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · CN
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop charting in a new countryChina
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop new best rank in the overall chart: #157Top Paid · All Apps · IN
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · TR
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · JP
- 📈Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop charting in a new country in 5 chartsCanada · Spain · Saudi Arabia · Turkey · +1 more
- 🆕Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop first spotted by AppInsider#162 in Top Paid · All Apps · United States
- 📦Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop version 2.5.6- Fixes Yoink’s App Icon
- Fixes a crash that could occur when restoring items from the Trash - 🆕Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Productivity PaidYoink - Improved Drag and Drop at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Yoink is a paid iOS productivity utility that functions as a temporary storage shelf for files, text, and images captured via drag-and-drop or clipboard monitoring, designed for users who need to move content between apps without switching contexts. The app holds a strong #3 position in the Indonesian Paid Productivity charts but trails significantly in other major markets like Japan (#31) and Taiwan (#127), indicating regional strength rather than global dominance.
Similar apps: Paste, Unclutter, Dropover
Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
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Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Russia | ProductivityPaid | #14 |
 China | ProductivityPaid | #62 |
 Japan | ProductivityPaid | #82 |
| Russia | All AppsPaid | #128 |
 South Korea | ProductivityPaid | #140 |
 France | ProductivityPaid | #146 |
 India | ProductivityPaid | #134 |
 Brazil | ProductivityPaid | #180 |
 Taiwan | ProductivityPaid | #124 |
 Saudi Arabia | ProductivityPaid | #148 |
 Netherlands | ProductivityPaid | #186 |
 Argentina | ProductivityPaid | #177 |
 Vietnam | ProductivityPaid | #189 |
 Colombia | ProductivityPaid | #184 |
Apps near Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop on the chart
Productivity Paid, around #14.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise Yoink as a powerful and intuitive drag-and-drop utility that significantly enhances iPad and iPhone workflows. However, frustration is high regarding the lack of reliable iCloud synchronization with macOS and persistent bugs affecting data integrity and display.
Mixed but leaning positive (66% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and syncing. The main complaints are about connection and sync problems, and crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Useful: “The most useful app on iPad Pro”
- Connection & sync: “Are they not supposed to sync?”
- Ease of use: “Nice clean intuitive design”
- Features & content: “Fix the file information feature has the text overlapping”
Common complaints
- Connection & sync: “Excited for Mac and iOS iCloud sync”
- Crashes & bugs: “It’s like having a desktop on your iPhone and iPad, but please fix the bug where it deletes links”
About Yoink - Improved Drag and Drop
This way, you can collect items in a central place without having to constantly move back and forth between your source- and destination applications.
The app accepts virtually any file type, for example app-content like images from websites, text snippets, web urls, eMails and documents - no matter if you drag, copy, share or download them.
Here's what users say about Yoink:
"The best shelf app on iOS" - Igloouk, UK App Store
"Most useful app in the iOS store. What a gem." - noway170, Austrian App Store
"A godsend. Get this. Now." - mr chairboy, US App Store
As a Slide-Over or Side-by-Side app on iPad, Yoink is always ready for you to drag something to it, no matter what app you're in. Just slide Yoink into view and conclude your drag operation.
On iPhone, use Yoink's Share extension, or copy-paste items into Yoink.
Items are stored in Yoink for later use, featuring rich previews for easy identification and full previews for most file types.
Drags containing multiple items are combined into a Stack.
Yoink comes with deep system integration:
- Clipboard Monitor:
Yoink's clipboard monitor saves everything you copy or cut, even when Yoink itself is in the background.
Use the Picture-in-Picture overlay to select what type of data Yoink should save, as well as to pause or stop it at any time.
- Picture-in-Picture for more than just videos:
Among others, Yoink can show pictures, PDFs, eMails and even websites in the Picture-in-Picture overlay, and lets you scroll through pages of documents right there.
- iCloud Sync
Synchronize Yoink's items across your devices using iCloud
- Handoff
Transfer files between iPhones, iPads and Macs (separate Mac Yoink app required) using Handoff
- Action/Share Extension
Almost any item you can share via the system-wide Share sheet, you can send directly to Yoink from there
- Keyboard
Yoink has its own keyboard so that inserting items you've stored in Yoink is easy and quick, without having to launch Yoink.
- Spotlight Integration
Any item in Yoink can be found via Spotlight - and the search-results are draggable.
- Today Widget
Access Yoink's items and save the contents from your clipboard in Yoink from Notification Center
- Shortcuts / Siri Suggestions
Yoink offers you Siri Shortcuts and Suggestions so you can automate processes, like adding items from the clipboard to Yoink, or copying items from Yoink, as well as starting downloads in Yoink.
- Files Integration
Access Yoink's files from any app that supports iOS 11's document browser
Here's what the press says about Yoink:
"Yoink is the shelf app Apple should have made." - Federico Viticci, MacStories.net
"Yoink is a must-have app" - Jeff Benjamin; 9to5mac.com
"Indispensable for power users." - Craig Grannell; techradar.com
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