Comparison

Counter vs Text Workflow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Counter

A straightforward tally counter designed for quick and easy tracking of any items. Its large tap area allows for effortless counting without needing to constantly view your screen. The app automatically saves your progress and offers options to clear or undo counts.

Highlights
  • Large tap targets
  • Increase and decrease count
  • Autosaves tally
  • Clear and undo functionality
  • No ads
Features
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Need to count something? Use this app as a simple tally for all your counting needs. With its large tap area, you won't even need to look at your phone to tally. Features: + Large tap targets for easy and quick use + Increase and decrease count + Autosaves your previous tally + Ability to Clear and Undo + No ads!

About

Text Workflow

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.

Highlights
  • Combine transformation actions
  • Save and reuse workflows
  • Over 45 text transformation actions
  • On-device processing
  • JSON, CSV, YAML conversion
  • URL and Base64 encoding/decoding
  • Shortcuts integration
Features
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Clean up AI and web text in one tap. Copy an answer from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any website and it comes with junk: [1] citation tags, 【source】 marks, stray ** and ## symbols, curly quotes, invisible characters, broken line breaks. Text Workflow removes all of it and gives you clean text, ready to paste. Exact, every time, and private. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and your workflows sync over iCloud. NEW IN 3.0 • Clean AI Text: one action removes citations, hidden characters, extra spaces and Markdown symbols. You choose what goes, and code blocks are never touched. • Remove Citations: strips [1], [7][8], [web:1], 【4:0†source】 and Wikipedia notes. • Markdown tables: tables from AI answers now convert to Rich Text and HTML. Format Markdown Table lines up the columns. • Compare Input with Result: see exactly what changed, by character, word or line. • A new text editor with line numbers, visible spaces and tabs, a monospaced font and Find. • Gemini joins OpenAI and Claude, with the newest models. WHY TEXT WORKFLOW • Exact, every time. The same input always gives the same output. No hallucinations, no "regenerate". • Private. Built-in actions run on your device. Never paste sensitive text into a website just to reformat it. • Built for the whole job. Chain 50+ actions into a workflow, save it and run it with one tap. • On every Apple device. A native app on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with workflows synced over iCloud. CLEAN UP AI AND WEB TEXT • Clean AI Text and Remove Citations • Remove Markdown, or turn it into Rich Text for Pages, Word and Mail • Markdown to HTML, with tables • Convert to plain text, strip HTML tags • Straight and curly quotes, accents and diacritics • Delete invisible and non-printable characters BUILD POWERFUL WORKFLOWS Chain actions together and each step feeds the next. Turn the text job you repeat every week into a single tap. • Reorder steps, switch them on and off, nest workflows inside workflows • Regular Expressions: extract, replace with capture groups, or run a workflow only on matching parts • Sync your workflows across all your devices with iCloud 50+ TEXT ACTIONS, INCLUDING • Editing and lines: find and replace (plain or RegEx), prefix and suffix, insert text, sort, number, break and trim lines, remove empty lines, line breaks, duplicates and extra spaces • Case and style: UPPER, lower, Title, camelCase, spell out numbers, format numbers, Style Text, reverse, shuffle, repeat • Data formats: beautify JSON, XML and HTML; JSON and YAML; JSON and CSV; XML to JSON; CSV to Markdown table • Utilities: Base64, URL encoding, encryption with a password, QR codes, UUIDs, text statistics, reading time, dates, math, short URLs WORKS WITH SHORTCUTS Every action and workflow is a Shortcuts action. Clean your clipboard with one tap, or build text automations that run on their own. Use the Share sheet to send text from any app. AI, ON YOUR TERMS AI is one optional step among 50+, not the whole app. Add a prompt step to any workflow with your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, any OpenAI-compatible service such as OpenRouter or LM Studio, or Apple's on-device model. You choose the model and pay the provider directly. Nothing routes through us. TEXT WORKFLOW PRO Free: every action, with results shown in full. Pro lets you copy and share results of any length, create unlimited workflows and compare Input with Result. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://www.gtrigonakis.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Counter1 screens
Text Workflow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Counter at none against Text Workflow's 3. Counter also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Text Workflow's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 32 months) and ratings volume (176 vs 29). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Counter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Counter against 4.8 for Text Workflow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 176 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Counter's written reviews are positive against 95% of Text Workflow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Counter ships an update every 32 months, Text Workflow fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Counter versus Text Workflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCounterText Workflow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (29 ratings) — better4.8 (176 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better95.2% of reviews
Number of ratings29176 — better
Update frequencyEvery 32 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTerence WilliamsGeorgios Trigonakis

Customer experience

Counter

All ratings50 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Text Workflow

All ratings176 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral3.4%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Counter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Text Workflow

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Last update broke Shortcuts
  • Shortcuts open the app and stop instead of returning data
  • Error message when selecting a workflow in Shortcuts action
  • Restore purchase doesn't work

Requested features

9 requests
  • Support for family sharing for subscriptions
  • Support for more languages
  • Ability to convert VB code to C#
  • Ability to change AI models (e.g., 16K ChatGPT, 32K GPT-4)
  • Ability to alter AI temperature settings, top-p, top-K, frequency penalties, token limit, stop sequence
Show 4 more
  • Support for API endpoints for local AI models
  • Integration with openrouter.ai
  • Accept share-type of a URL as well as text
  • Convert JSON to YAML and vice versa (already added, but mentioned as a request)

In-app purchases

None

Counter

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Text Workflow

Subscriptions2
  • Text Workflow Full Access$0.991 Month
  • Text Workflow Full Access7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$17.99

Questions

Is Counter free?
Counter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Counter or Text Workflow?
Counter is rated higher. Counter averages 4.8 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Text Workflow averages 4.8 from 176 ratings.
Do Counter or Text Workflow have ads?
Neither Counter nor Text Workflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Counter or Text Workflow?
Counter ships an update every 32 months, and Text Workflow fortnightly. Most recently, Counter was updated on October 13, 2026 and Text Workflow on October 18, 2026.

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