A straightforward notebook for creating and organizing plain text notes. It offers local storage and optional cloud synchronization for backup and cross-device access. Notes can be secured with a lock for added privacy.
3.7(3 ratings)
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3.3(4 ratings)
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This app provides a simple and secure online platform for creating and editing text files. It offers a range of formatting options similar to word processing software, making it easy to write notes, blog posts, or academic content.
Text Workflow: Clean any Text by Georgios Trigonakis
Convert, format & automateWorth Considering
🔧 Utilities
4.8😊(176 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
Automate repetitive text editing tasks with a powerful yet user-friendly tool. Create custom workflows by combining over 45 transformation actions to format, clean, and convert text. All processing is done on-device for enhanced security and privacy.
What We Love
- 🚀 Adds significant functionality to Shortcuts
- 💡 Powerful text manipulation and data conversion
- 👍 Excellent for testing Regex patterns
- 👍 Incredibly useful and handy
- 👍 Magic in your pocket
- 👍 Remarkable app experience
- 👍 User-friendly yet powerful
- 👍 Indispensable tool
- 👍 Best companion for notes and writing
- 👍 Makes text manipulation easier
- 👍 Valuable tool on iPad
- 👍 Game changer, essential and updated
- 👍 Total control over text
- 👍 Replaces many online formatting tools
- 👍 Handles tasks no other text formatter does
- 👍 Super helpful and beautifully designed
- 👍 Advanced text manipulations with Shortcuts
- 👍 Great for formatting text
- 👍 Awesome app for the price
- 👍 Godsend for affiliate marketers
- 👍 Can be used meaningfully
- 👍 Unbeatable when needed
- 👍 Handles text-based data like photo editing apps
- 👍 Well-made, does more than expected
- 👍 Excellent tool
- 👍 Big help for manipulating large text documents
- 👍 Powerful and simple dev tool
- 👍 Saves programming work for text optimization
- 👍 So cool and FREE
- 👍 Like UltraEdit for iPad
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Saves time on manual editing
- 👍 Very responsive developer
- 👍 Powerful and user-friendly text transformation
- 👍 Eliminates repetitive manual tasks
- 👍 Extensive range of text transformation actions
- 👍 Encode/decode text, beautify JSON/XML, generate QR codes
- 👍 Save and export workflows
- 👍 Excellent time-saving tool
- 👍 Highly recommended
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Family sharing for subscription not enabled
- 🐛 Free plan has a 100-character limit
- 🐛 Restore purchase doesn't work
- 🐛 Last update broke Shortcuts
- 🐛 Redirecting behavior in Shortcuts even without using the action
- 🐛 Can't select AI models for AI feature
- 🐛 AI feature needs ability to change AI models and settings
