Logger for Shortcuts User Reviews

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Excellent!

I wish I could give this 6 stars. This makes Shortcut development *so* much faster than Quick Look.

Saves so much time and trouble and so nicely executed

Every time I use Logger, I feel surprised at how useful the log is. I really appreciate how Logger works so well with Shortcuts that it feels built-in. Super nice work.

Overall great but would love to have tags included in exports

logger has been an incredible change in the way I troubleshoot my automations and complex shortcuts.

No way to report bugs

Well, the “App Support” link goes to a 404 page and there’s no way to contact the company on the website nor within the app. Anyway, the “Copy Title” function doesn’t work. Otherwise good app.

Response from developer

Sorry about this, the support link (https://shortcutslogger.dev/support) should now work and we've adde a "Send Feedback" menu item to the app. Please do get in touch if you have any other issues; we've love to hear in what way "Copy Title" isn't working as expected.

A night/day difference for developing Shortcuts.

Earlier this summer I spent days developing Shortcut automations for a project that would have taken me weeks of absolute drudgery. It took me “days” and not “day” because I had no practical way of seeing why my shortcut wasn’t working, and my workarounds were almost as tedious as the project I was trying to automate.

Logger is the solution. I just worked through a similar project with Logger on hand, and EVERYTHING went so much more smoothly—I could see where I’d told Shortcuts to do something foolishly, I could see where inputs and outputs deviated from my intentions, I could see everything. Project took me a day, and not days.
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Must-have app for debugging Shortcuts

If you have any interest in writing shortcuts for your iOS device, this is an indispensable app. I can't recommend it highly enough. It's been we'll worth the purchase price for me.

Doesn’t work

I turn on logging, put the actions in the shortcut configure them, run it, and receive no logging.

Response from developer

Hi, Sorry to hear that you're having issues. Could you check that Logger isn't paused (open the app and look for the ⏸️ icon in the top left, if it shows ▶️ then tap the button)? Before 1.2.0, the app started with logging "paused", which would behave exactly as you describe. If you're still having problems, please emails us at logger@snailedit.dev

It doesn't work.

I want my money back. And the screenshots look so promising.

Response from developer

Hi, Sorry to hear you're having issues. Could you get in touch with us at logger@snailedit.dev and we'll do our best to help?

Broken on iOS 16.1.1 and macOS 13.2

Currently, this app opens up with a black screen on iOS and does not open at all on macOS. I really liked this app for debugging shortcuts, but I hadn't intentionally used it in at least a few months, so I can't give the exact version in which this app stopped working. My best guess is that the last major releases of both iOS and macOS broke the app probably due to some under-the-hood changes to the Shortcuts app. I hope the developer is able to address this breaking issue!
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Response from developer

Hi, Sorry to hear you're having issues. Could you get in touch with us at logger@snailedit.dev and we'll do our best to help? As far as we're aware, the app should still be working fine on all versions of iOS 16 and macOS 13.

Super useful

Make creating shortcuts more accurate and easier with the help of logger. Give an insight into how my shortcut functions are interact within and values being passed into variables.

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