Comparison

Scriptable vs Userscripts

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Write and run JavaScript
  • Create custom widgets
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
  • Access native iOS features
  • Schedule notifications
  • File management
  • Script gallery
Features
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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.

About

Userscripts

This open-source Safari extension allows you to run custom JavaScript and CSS code on any website. Enhance your browsing experience with personalized styling, automatic redirects, and ad-blocking.

Highlights
  • Run custom JavaScript
  • Inject custom CSS
  • Automatic page redirection
  • Website page manipulation
  • Custom ad-blocking
  • Open source
  • No user tracking
Features
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Userscripts is an open source Safari extension that lets you save and run arbitrary bits of JavaScript (and CSS) code for the websites you visit. Features: - Open source - No user tracking Use cases: - Automatic page redirection - Website page manipulation (styling, element creation) - Custom ad-blocking - Custom code injection - Custom style injection If you're looking for a way to easily create quality of life Javacript code snippets for your web browsing experience, give Userscripts a try. Visit the GitHub repository for help or to report bugs: https://github.com/quoid/userscripts/

Screenshots

Scriptable4 screens
Userscripts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Userscripts at none against Scriptable's 3. Userscripts also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 69%). Scriptable's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads, chart position and device support 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. Scriptable sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Userscripts asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scriptable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scriptable has 3.8K ratings behind it against 181, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Scriptable's written reviews are positive against 78% of Userscripts's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scriptable ships an update every 4 days, Userscripts monthly. Both last shipped on October 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Scriptable versus Userscripts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScriptableUserscripts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better4.3 (181 ratings)
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews78.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.8K — better181
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#14 — better#25
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSimon B. StøvringJustin Wasack

Customer experience

Scriptable

All ratings3,819 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews529 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral8.9%
Negative21.9%

Userscripts

All ratings181 ratings
Positive82.3%
Neutral2.2%
Negative15.5%
Written reviews251 reviews
Positive78.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative16.3%

User reviews

Scriptable

From 3.8K App Store ratings

What 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

Userscripts

From 181 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Works well to inject CSS on iPad in Safari
  • 👍 Best thing since sliced bread
  • 💡 Allows you to do thousands of things that were previously desktop only
  • 🔒 Very stable and works flawlessly with Safari
  • 👍 Excellent Safari extension

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Satisfactory to an extent, stops working sometimes
  • 🐛 Broke until reinstall
  • 🐛 Slowed my Safari down to a crawl
  • 🐛 Unpredictable when it applies scripts, but still useful
  • 🐛 It's been way too unpredictable for a while now

Bugs and requests

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

Userscripts

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Failed to load user data
  • Saying there's an error when trying to download something
  • Won't work, keeps saying there's an issue and retry
  • Disappeared from Safari preferences and won't return after troubleshooting

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for Safari Tech Preview
  • Allow editing of userscripts from the browser extension popup
  • Allow creation of a new script from the Safari Extension for the current site
  • Allow specifying the order in which scripts should be loaded
  • Add support for running scripts in normal mode, private mode or both

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Scriptable

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
None

Userscripts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scriptable free?
Scriptable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Userscripts free?
Userscripts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Scriptable or Userscripts?
Scriptable is rated higher. Scriptable averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.8K ratings, while Userscripts averages 4.3 from 181 ratings.
Do Scriptable or Userscripts have ads?
Neither Scriptable nor Userscripts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scriptable or Userscripts?
Scriptable ships an update every 4 days, and Userscripts monthly. Most recently, Scriptable was updated on October 3, 2026 and Userscripts on October 3, 2026.
Which is more popular, Scriptable or Userscripts?
Scriptable currently peaks at #14 in the App Store charts, and Userscripts at #25. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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