Scriptable vs Escape Room Phone Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Escape Room Phone Simulator
This app allows you to create and manage custom contacts with personalized audio recordings that play when dialed. You can also store an unlimited number of voicemails with custom audio. It's designed to be used with Guided Access to lock users within the application.
- Unlimited contact storage
- Customizable contact cards
- Audio recordings for dialed numbers
- Voicemail storage with audio
- Guided Access integration
- Contact visibility options
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Store an unlimited number of contacts and/or voicemails. Numbers/Contacts can be hidden, shown in favorites, shown in contacts or any combination of the 3. Contact cards are customizable with name, profile photo, map image, notes, phone number and address. Each phone number can have an audio recording that plays when number is dialed. When a number is dialed, either a not in service message or the audio recording you created will be played on the speaker. Add an unlimited number of voicemails with audio recordings. Once you set up the app, open it and put your iPhone or iPod Touch into Guided Access to prevent customers from leaving the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Escape Room Phone Simulator at none against Scriptable's 3. Escape Room Phone Simulator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). Scriptable's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (3.8K vs 1). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Scriptable sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Escape Room Phone Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Escape Room Phone Simulator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scriptable has 3.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Scriptable ships an update every 4 days, Escape Room Phone Simulator every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scriptable | Escape Room Phone Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #15 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon B. Støvring | Stuart BOGATY |
Customer experience
Scriptable
Escape Room Phone Simulator
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
Escape Room Phone Simulator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Scriptable
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
Escape Room Phone Simulator
No in-app purchases
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