Charty for Shortcuts vs Top Four
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/
Top Four
Personalize your phone's lock screen with customizable widgets. Add text, emojis, or symbols that can launch actions like calling contacts or controlling smart home devices. You can set up to four widgets for quick access to your favorite functions.
- Customizable text widgets
- Emoji and symbol integration
- Launch actions on tap
- Control HomeKit devices
- Open apps and contacts
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Top Four is an app to customize your lock screen widgets to be more personal to you. Choose text, emojis or symbols to add under the time. Tapping these widgets can also run an action like calling someone, toggling a HomeKit device or opening instagram (many more coming soon). You get 4 widgets to add to your lock screen (your top four). - Use text with custom fonts - Use emojis - Use one of the many symbols Have any questions or issues? email me@shabz.co
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Verdict
Charty for Shortcuts and Top Four both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 78% of Charty for Shortcuts's written reviews are positive against 50% of Top Four's. Charty for Shortcuts also leads on ratings volume (344 vs 35). Top Four's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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 Top Four sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Charty for Shortcuts against 4.7 for Top Four. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Charty for Shortcuts has 344 ratings behind it against 35, 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 50% of Top Four's.
Charty for Shortcuts ships an update every 3 weeks, Top Four every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Charty for Shortcuts | Top Four |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (344 ratings) | 4.7 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 344 — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rapptor Desenvolvimento de Softwares LTDA | ShabzCo, LLC |
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
Top Four
- Top Four Pro$1.99
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