Shortcutify vs As Told
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shortcutify
Connect third-party services to your device's automation app. Easily integrate popular platforms like Spotify, LIFX, and Google Drive to create custom workflows and manage multiple services from one place. Your API keys are securely stored locally for enhanced privacy.
- Third-party API integration
- Customizable workflows
- Spotify integration
- LIFX light management
- Google Maps and Drive access
- Secure local API key storage
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Add a task to Notion, update an Airtable record or create a GitHub issue from Apple Shortcuts. Build the action in Shortcutify: choose a service, fill in the details and decide what your shortcut should supply. Save it, then add Execute Action to your shortcut. Your fields, ready to fill in Choose a Notion page or an Airtable base and table. Shortcutify builds a form from the supported fields, with controls for dates, selections, ratings and more. Set a value now or let your shortcut fill it in each time. Several steps in one action Use a result from one step in the next, even when they use different services. Save the steps together and run them as a single action from Shortcuts. Text, files and results Pass in text, photos, PDFs and other files, or ask for a value when the action runs. Choose which response fields to send back to Shortcuts. If something goes wrong, open the run log to see what each step sent and what came back. Works with • Notion: pages, tables, rows and supported page content. • Airtable: find, add and update records. • GitHub: repositories, issues and pull requests. • Spotify: music search, playback information and controls. • Dropbox: files and folders. • Philips Hue: supported lights and scenes through your Hue Bridge. • YouTube: public videos, channels and playlists. • YouTube Analytics: reports for your own channel. • Jev: questions and structured answers you can use in later steps. Need a starting point? Describe It can draft an action from a written request using Apple Intelligence. You can edit the draft before running it. Requires iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence available; drafting uses Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Getting connected Each service needs its own setup, which may require an API key, access token or your own developer app credentials. The service's permissions, quotas and account requirements apply. Some actions need a paid service account or compatible hardware. Service requests need an internet connection. Credentials are stored in iOS Keychain. Requests go to the services you configure. Setup guides: https://getshortcutify.app/docs/
As Told
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Write it. Say it. Keep it. As Told is a quiet, private writing space for anything you want to put into words. Capture a passing thought. Write a note. Work through an idea. Draft something longer. Make a plan. Build a list. Or tap the microphone and simply say what's on your mind. Typing and speaking belong on the same page, so you never have to decide what kind of note you're creating first. WRITE NATURALLY A clean page, a title if you want one, and a small writing toolbar just above the keyboard. No block picker, no formatting ribbon, no setup. Give a thought as much structure as it needs and no more. SAY IT INSTEAD The microphone sits beside the new-note button on Home. Tap it and As Told is already listening — there is no note to create first. Pause when you need a moment and pick the same recording back up. When your words come back, they become an ordinary note like any other: no separate voice inbox, no transcript screen to visit. Speaking inside a note works the same way, and the words land at your cursor. MAKE IT WHATEVER YOU NEED Headings and subheadings. Bulleted and numbered lists. Checklists you tick in place — a circle beside each line. Paste a plan, a table or a block of code and it arrives with its shape intact: tables stay tables, links stay tappable, code stays code, monospaced and syntax-coloured with Copy Code one tap away. FIND IT AGAIN Home keeps the recent days in view — Today, then the previous seven — with a short preview under every note. Search when you remember a word. Open the calendar when you remember the day: dots show how much you wrote on each one, and tapping a day lists its notes right under the month. SPEAK THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY SPEAK As Told doesn't ask you to choose a language before you talk. Speak in one, or move between two in the same sentence — the transcript comes back in the languages you used, in the scripts you used, rather than translated into one. Voice transcription is tested most closely with English, Telugu, Hindi, and speech that moves between them. Your words are transcribed as you said them. Punctuation, capitalisation and paragraph breaks are added so a spoken thought reads like written language — and that is all. Nothing is summarised, rewritten, polished or translated. YOUR WORDS SHOULDN'T DISAPPEAR If a recording can't be transcribed — no signal, a connection that dropped — it is kept on your iPhone so you can try again. Nothing you said is thrown away because the network wasn't there. SHARE WHEN YOU NEED TO Tap Share and iOS takes over. A note goes to whichever apps and services are already on your iPhone, with its formatting where the destination can take it and plain text everywhere else. As Told creates no link and keeps no record of what you sent. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, ever. Your notes live on your iPhone. A recording leaves the device only when you choose to transcribe it, only after you agree the first time, and nothing else from the note goes with it. No ads, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Lock the app with Face ID if you like — it is off unless you turn it on. Whatever you want to put into words — write it, say it, keep it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: As Told at none against Shortcutify's 4. As Told also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Shortcutify sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. As Told asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shortcutify ships an update fortnightly, As Told every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shortcutify | As Told |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (34 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.6 | 26.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guram Kajaia | Krishna Sathvik Mantripragada |
In-app purchases
Shortcutify
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
- Large Tip$2.99
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- Extra Large Tip$9.99
As Told
No in-app purchases









