Comparison

Charty for Shortcuts vs Lockera

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Lockera

Enhance your device's Home and Lock Screen with customizable widgets. Display essential information like storage, calendar events, and countdowns. Create notes, QR codes, and perform quick calculations without unlocking your phone.

Highlights
  • Custom Text widgets
  • QR Code generator
  • Device Storage display
  • Countdown timers
  • Sticky Notes
  • Calculator
  • To Do lists
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Personalize your Home and Lock Screen with Lockera. Keep track of essential information, do simple calculations, create sticky notes and to lists. Lockera widgets: ● Custom Text Add custom text to your Lock Screen ● QR Code Custom QR Code with your website URL, phone number, or any text you want ● Storage You always know how much space is left on your device without unlocking it. ● Year Progress Displays the current year progress ● On this Day Find out what happened today in history ● Days Left Name your event and select a date to display the countdown ● Sticky Notes With Sticky Notes, you can create up to five notes ● Magic Ball Gives you answers and predictions ● Calendar* Monthly calendar with events ● Data Usage* Cellular or Wi-Fi data usage ● Days Passed* Name your event and select a date to display the number of days passed ● Birthdays* Add "Birthdays" widget to be reminded to say Happy Birthday to your family members and friends. ● Current Week* Add a tiny "Current Week" calendar to your Lock Screen. ● Calculator* Do simple calculations right on your Desktop ● To Do* Create up to five To Do lists * requires an upgrade to Lockera Pro. Calculator, Sticky Notes, To Do, Magic Ball widgets require iOS 17 or higher. Found a bug? Have a suggestion? Please, send it to support@imagetasks.com Follow us on Twitter @imagetasks!

Screenshots

Charty for Shortcuts4 screens
Lockera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Charty for Shortcuts at every 3 weeks against Lockera's every 2 months. Charty for Shortcuts also leads on ratings volume (342 vs 17). Lockera's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Charty for Shortcuts sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Lockera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Charty for Shortcuts against 4.5 for Lockera. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Charty for Shortcuts has 342 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Charty for Shortcuts's written reviews are positive against 80% of Lockera's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Charty for Shortcuts ships an update every 3 weeks, Lockera every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Charty for Shortcuts versus Lockera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCharty for ShortcutsLockera
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (342 ratings) — better4.5 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings342 — better17
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRapptor Desenvolvimento de Softwares LTDAImageTasks Inc

Customer experience

Charty for Shortcuts

All ratings327 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral1.2%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral4.5%
Negative17.3%

Lockera

All ratings17 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Charty for Shortcuts

Subscriptions2
  • Charty Premium$1.991 Month
  • Charty Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time5
  • Small tip$0.99
  • Medium tip$2.99
  • Charty Premium$4.99
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  • Large tip$4.99
  • Charty Premium$99.99
1 purchases

Lockera

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Lockera Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Charty for Shortcuts free?
Charty for Shortcuts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lockera free?
Lockera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Charty for Shortcuts or Lockera?
Charty for Shortcuts is rated higher. Charty for Shortcuts averages 4.7 out of 5 from 342 ratings, while Lockera averages 4.5 from 17 ratings.
Do Charty for Shortcuts or Lockera have ads?
Neither Charty for Shortcuts nor Lockera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Charty for Shortcuts or Lockera?
Charty for Shortcuts ships an update every 3 weeks, and Lockera every 2 months. Most recently, Charty for Shortcuts was updated on October 24, 2026 and Lockera on October 24, 2026.

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