The app is completely broken
I'm revising my review. It seems that I was wrong, the app does occasionally work. There seems to be either a bug or something weird with my device as some shortcuts send logs, others just do not.
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Love ❤️
Awesome
Just what shortcuts is missing - good price and just “does what it says on the tin”.
Within a day it’s helped debug some more complex shortcuts and acts as a place to log what’s going on
Thanks!
Within a day it’s helped debug some more complex shortcuts and acts as a place to log what’s going on
Thanks!
Great App for Shortcuts Development
Logger is a great app for shortcuts development.
A Must Have!
If you are writing shortcuts on your phone, this is so much better than a Quick Look action. A quick look gives a moment in time reference and then is gone. This combines all your checks through a script into one place that gives context to an entry and where things may have gone off the rails. I recouped the $5 for it with the time saved on the very first shortcut I used it for.
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Invaluable
Literally invaluable if you build shortcuts of any complexity.
Just what I needed
Worth every penny for debugging/monitoring Shortcuts
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.
Great must have app for any Apple Shortcuts developer
Great must have app for any Apple Shortcuts developer. Reduces complexity providing insights in even the most complex shortcuts.
Do yourself a favor & buy it
This app will pay dividends in time saved/headaches avoided when troubleshooting those shortcuts that don’t want to work. It’s worth the investment to say the least. Actively updated with great devs.
Excellent!
I wish I could give this 6 stars. This makes Shortcut development *so* much faster than Quick Look.
Excellent!
Just found this tool last weekend, implemented it into two of my shortcuts and it works beautifully on macOS 14.5, iOS 17.5.1, and iPadOS 18 beta 2.
Thank you for this nice tool! (Just a little bit sad it took me four year to discover it!😃)
It is a useful addition next to Data Jar, Actions, Toolbox Pro, and Pushcut.
Thank you for this nice tool! (Just a little bit sad it took me four year to discover it!😃)
It is a useful addition next to Data Jar, Actions, Toolbox Pro, and Pushcut.
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Excellent!
Just found this tool last weekend, implemented it into two of my shortcuts and it works beautifully on macOS 14.5, iOS 17.5.1, and iPadOS 18 beta 2.
Thank you for this nice tool! (Just a little bit sad it took me four year to discover it!😃)
It is a useful addition next to Data Jar, Actions, Toolbox Pro, and Pushcut.
Thank you for this nice tool! (Just a little bit sad it took me four year to discover it!😃)
It is a useful addition next to Data Jar, Actions, Toolbox Pro, and Pushcut.
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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.
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
Lots of potential
I am constantly monitoring many logs, some in a terminal window, others in their own thing, pm2, glances, etc, each app has their own logging method (log.debug, console.log, >> stdout, etc), not all log a timestamp, some do in UTC, others locale, etc and I end up with different windows spread all over multiple monitors. It’s no-man’s land.
I dont know how active R&D for this is, seems nothing released in a year, but I saw this app today and in a “revelation” I envisioned it similar to Pushover (the standard central notification tool) but as a central logging tool. The multi-media options, cloud sync, tags, titles, are awesome ideas I had not even considered, content with tailing logs all these years.
I would work on that concept, PROMOTE, add a webhook to write from wherever, some kind of markdown maybe? and this will take off. Don’t give it up.
I dont know how active R&D for this is, seems nothing released in a year, but I saw this app today and in a “revelation” I envisioned it similar to Pushover (the standard central notification tool) but as a central logging tool. The multi-media options, cloud sync, tags, titles, are awesome ideas I had not even considered, content with tailing logs all these years.
I would work on that concept, PROMOTE, add a webhook to write from wherever, some kind of markdown maybe? and this will take off. Don’t give it up.
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