Charty for Shortcuts vs Glimpse 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Charty for Shortcuts
Enhance Apple's Shortcuts app with powerful charting capabilities. Create and customize various chart types directly from your automations. Unlock advanced features for unlimited data visualization.
- 24 new actions for Shortcuts
- Create 7 different chart types
- Add unlimited series (premium)
- Style charts and axes (premium)
- Export charts as images (premium)
- Update widgets
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Charty is the ultimate charting companion for Shortcuts. Whether you're tracking workouts, visualizing health data, monitoring budgets, or building dashboards from any app on your iPhone or iPad — Charty makes it effortless to go from raw numbers to beautiful, shareable charts. CREATE CHARTS YOUR WAY Build bar charts, line graphs, scatter plots, area charts, pie charts, donut charts, and ring charts — all from Shortcuts automations you already use. Combine multiple data series, customize every detail, and see your data come to life. STUNNING WIDGETS ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Display your charts as widgets that update automatically. Track your goals, habits, fitness progress, or anything else — right from your Home Screen. POWERFUL DATA TOOLS Go beyond simple plotting. Group, filter, and accumulate values. Add moving averages and trend lines. Import data from CSV files. Export charts as high-resolution images to share or save. STYLE EVERYTHING Fine-tune colors, markers, axis labels, date formats, floating-point precision, and more. Apply custom themes to keep your charts consistent and polished. Stack bars, customize line thickness, and highlight the data that matters most. LEARN AS YOU GO Access 16 built-in tutorials that walk you through creating your own Shortcuts — from simple charts to advanced data workflows. No coding required. FREE TO START Create unlimited charts with up to 2 series per chart — completely free. Unlock Charty Premium to access all 25 Shortcuts actions, unlimited series, full styling controls, area charts, CSV import, image export, widgets, and more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Glimpse 2
Display your favorite webpages directly on your homescreen with customizable widgets. Monitor news, product availability, or data usage by selecting specific areas of a page. Open pages instantly in Safari from the widget.
- Add webpages as homescreen widgets
- Select specific areas of webpages for widgets
- Customizable refresh intervals
- Open webpages directly from widgets
- Add pages from Safari
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With Glimpse 2 you can always add all your favourite webpages as Widgets to your Homescreen You want to see if there are news, if there is something new on your favourite webpage, if your long awaited product is available to order or check your used mobile data? You can do all of this with the right webpage inside Glimpse. Just add a page to Glimpse. Choose the right area of the page and then this page is inside the Glimpse Widget on your Homescreen. If you want to open a page quickly, you can do it from by pressing on the Widget and your page will be opened in Safari You can add multiple widgets for different webpages to your Homescreen. Press firmly on the widget choose edit widget to select your webpage and desired refresh interval. Features of Glimpse 2: - Add a page to a Homescreen widget - When adding you can scroll to a certain area of the page. The widget keeps this position, so that you are always in the right place (Note: Glimpse works best with mobile optimised webpages) - Individual refresh intervals for your widgets - You can open webpages from the widget - Add any page directly from Safari
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Charty for Shortcuts at 78% against Glimpse 2's 41%. Charty for Shortcuts also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (342 vs 45). Glimpse 2's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Charty for Shortcuts sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Glimpse 2 sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Charty for Shortcuts holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Charty for Shortcuts has 342 ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Charty for Shortcuts's written reviews are positive against 41% of Glimpse 2's.
Charty for Shortcuts ships an update every 3 weeks, Glimpse 2 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Charty for Shortcuts | Glimpse 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (342 ratings) — better | 4.2 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.2% of reviews — better | 41.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 342 — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Rapptor Desenvolvimento de Softwares LTDA | Arno Appenzeller |
Customer experience
Charty for Shortcuts
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In-app purchases
Charty for Shortcuts
- Charty Premium$1.991 Month
- Charty Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Small tip$0.99
- Medium tip$2.99
- Charty Premium$4.99
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- Large tip$4.99
- Charty Premium$99.99
Glimpse 2
- Pay what you want 0,99$0.99
- Pay what you want 1,99$1.99
- Pay what you want 2,99$2.99
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- Pay what you want 3,99$3.99
- Pay what you want 4,99$4.99
- Pay what you want 5,99$5.99
- Pay what you want 6,99$6.99
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