App Store Connect vs Scriptable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
App Store Connect
Manage your apps and submissions directly from your iPhone or iPad. Monitor sales, respond to reviews, manage testers, and generate marketing assets on the go. Receive important notifications about your app's performance and status.
- App status and submission management
- Tester group and build management
- Sales and trends monitoring
- Customer ratings and reviews
- Marketing asset generation
- Key event notifications
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Manage your apps on the go with the App Store Connect app for iPhone and iPad. • View the status of your apps and manage App Store submissions. • Manage tester groups, add new builds and testers, view screenshot and crash feedback. • View key sales and trends information to monitor app performance. • View and respond to your latest customer ratings and reviews. • Generate marketing assets to promote your apps’ biggest moments, such as getting featured in select placements on the App Store, or when you’re submitting a new app launch or new version. • Receive notifications about key events, such as app status changes, new customer reviews, tester feedback, and featuring in select placements on the App Store.
Scriptable
Automate tasks on your device by writing custom scripts in JavaScript. Integrate with native iOS features like files, calendars, and reminders. Create personalized widgets for your Home Screen and interact with Siri.
- Write and run JavaScript
- Create custom widgets
- Siri Shortcuts integration
- Access native iOS features
- Schedule notifications
- File management
- Script gallery
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Scriptable is an automation tool that enables you to write scripts that integrates with native features of iOS such as files, calendars, reminders, documents and much more. An extensive support for widgets enables you to write your own widgets using JavaScript and run the scripts on your Home Screen. Your widgets can show any data and be customised to look just the way you want. With Siri Shortcuts you can present images, tables and more in Siri as well as making Siri read out loud a text when you run a script from a Siri Shortcut. There's a growing gallery of scripts to get you started with Scriptable. Here’s a few examples of scripts you can create: - Ask Siri whether a web service is down. - Create a widget that shows data from your weather station. - Postpone the next event in your calendar half an hour. - Check what is currently on TV. - Manage a list of movies you would like to watch. - Upload files to an image optimizer and store a URL to the optimized image. - Receive a notification with the weather report every morning. - Create todos with prefilled data in your favorite todo app using URL schemes. Features include: - Write and run JavaScript. - Auto complete of variable names, functions, keywords and properties as you type. - Access lots of native iOS features from your JavaScript code, including managing files, calendars, reminders, contacts, photos, location, pasteboard, web views and more. - Create your own widgets. Your scripts run on the Home Screen without needing to open the app. - Siri Shortcuts enabling you to present images, tables, websites, HTML and more in Siri as well as making Siri read out loud a text. - Support for input and output parameters in Siri Shortcuts. - Easily schedule rich notifications to run your scripts periodically. - Work with files and directories from third party apps using File Bookmarks. - Synchronise scripts to all of your devices using iCloud Drive. - Scripts are stored as plain JavaScript files and can be browsed using the Files app. - Assign one of over 800 glyphs and a color to a script to easily identify it in your directory of scripts. - Run scripts directly on your Lock Screen and Home Screen using widgets. - Run a script by 3D touching the app icon. - Run a script from a share sheet and process the inputs. - Schedule notifications and run a script directly from a notification. - URL schemes enabling you to run scripts from other apps. - Support for x-callback-url enabling advanced integration with other apps that support x-callback-url. - Export and share scripts. - Example scripts helping you get started creating your own scripts. - Extensive documentation for all the native APIs you can use in your scripts. Available offline in the app and online on docs.scriptable.app. - View the documentation in a separate window on iPad. - Support for dark mode. - Customise the editor to your liking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: App Store Connect at none against Scriptable's 3. App Store Connect also leads on ratings volume (15K vs 3.8K). Scriptable's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (69% vs 55%). On price, rating, ads and chart position 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
Both are free to download. Scriptable sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. App Store Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for App Store Connect against 4.7 for Scriptable. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15K and 3.8K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of App Store Connect's written reviews are positive against 69% of Scriptable's.
App Store Connect ships an update every 3 months, Scriptable every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | App Store Connect | Scriptable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15K ratings) | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.1% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 3.8K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #10 — better | #14 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Apple | Simon B. Støvring |
Customer experience
App Store Connect
Scriptable
User reviews
App Store Connect
From 15K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Convenient app for managing apps
- 🚀 Quick response and easy to use
- 📢 Helpful for responding to reviews
- 🔍 Provides good overview of app performance
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🕰️ Delayed data and analytics
- 🔍 Limited functionality compared to website
- 🔒 Login issues and frequent sign-outs
Scriptable
From 3.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Amazing usage of Application Programming Interface (API)
- 🚀 Scriptable + AI lets create micro apps
- 👍 Whoah, Wow, Nice
- 👍 Awesome app, Helpful app
- 🚀 Unrivaled Functionality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Force closes, Crashes immediately, Cannot Use - Always Crashes
- 🐛 Scripts don't work, Stopped working, Self Deleting
- 🐛 Incompatible with iOS 18, Widgets become white, Doesn't work on iOS 17.4
- 🐛 Bugs, So many bugs, Kept freezing
- 🐛 Default access to iCloud, Misspelled word, Selecting text is difficult
Bugs and requests
App Store Connect
Reported bugs
4 issues- Reviews section crashes the app
- Trends data not updating correctly
- Login fields sometimes disabled
- Inconsistent behavior across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for TestFlight management
- Improve trends and analytics features
- Allow custom date ranges for data
- Provide more detailed app metrics
- Add translations for reviews
Scriptable
Reported bugs
5 issues- Scripts say need '(' at end when already there
- Reminders scheduling crashes when changing date/time
- Reminders Due Today has variable scope issues
- setInterval is not set
- Accessing Contacts and ContactsContainer causes blank widget
Requested features
6 requests- Add HTML support
- Add Apple Watch support
- Improve documentation with examples
- Add ability to access files from other apps
- Add ability to require other scripts
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- Integrate with GitHub/repository managers
In-app purchases
App Store Connect
No in-app purchases
Scriptable
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
Questions
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