Comparison

DayCircle vs Text Workflow

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

Head to head
About

DayCircle

Easily track important dates like birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones. This app helps you remember and celebrate every significant event with a visually appealing interface.

Highlights
  • Track birthdays and anniversaries
  • Monitor moving dates
  • Celebrate first days
  • Visually appealing design
  • Mark down important days
Features
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Birthday, anniversaries, moving, First day of ... How to remember them all? DDay, simply marked down the day Celebrate each in full color.

About

Text Workflow

Streamline text processing by removing unwanted characters, formatting AI-generated content, and converting data formats. Automate repetitive text tasks with custom workflows and sync them across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Clean AI and web text
  • Remove citations and Markdown
  • Convert Markdown tables to Rich Text/HTML
  • Compare input with result
  • Build custom text workflows
  • Sync workflows via iCloud
  • Over 50 text actions
Features
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Clean up AI and web text in one tap. Copy an answer from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any website and it comes with junk: [1] citation tags, 【source】 marks, stray ** and ## symbols, curly quotes, invisible characters, broken line breaks. Text Workflow removes all of it and gives you clean text, ready to paste. Exact, every time, and private. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and your workflows sync over iCloud. NEW IN 3.0 • Clean AI Text: one action removes citations, hidden characters, extra spaces and Markdown symbols. You choose what goes, and code blocks are never touched. • Remove Citations: strips [1], [7][8], [web:1], 【4:0†source】 and Wikipedia notes. • Markdown tables: tables from AI answers now convert to Rich Text and HTML. Format Markdown Table lines up the columns. • Compare Input with Result: see exactly what changed, by character, word or line. • A new text editor with line numbers, visible spaces and tabs, a monospaced font and Find. • Gemini joins OpenAI and Claude, with the newest models. WHY TEXT WORKFLOW • Exact, every time. The same input always gives the same output. No hallucinations, no "regenerate". • Private. Built-in actions run on your device. Never paste sensitive text into a website just to reformat it. • Built for the whole job. Chain 50+ actions into a workflow, save it and run it with one tap. • On every Apple device. A native app on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with workflows synced over iCloud. CLEAN UP AI AND WEB TEXT • Clean AI Text and Remove Citations • Remove Markdown, or turn it into Rich Text for Pages, Word and Mail • Markdown to HTML, with tables • Convert to plain text, strip HTML tags • Straight and curly quotes, accents and diacritics • Delete invisible and non-printable characters BUILD POWERFUL WORKFLOWS Chain actions together and each step feeds the next. Turn the text job you repeat every week into a single tap. • Reorder steps, switch them on and off, nest workflows inside workflows • Regular Expressions: extract, replace with capture groups, or run a workflow only on matching parts • Sync your workflows across all your devices with iCloud 50+ TEXT ACTIONS, INCLUDING • Editing and lines: find and replace (plain or RegEx), prefix and suffix, insert text, sort, number, break and trim lines, remove empty lines, line breaks, duplicates and extra spaces • Case and style: UPPER, lower, Title, camelCase, spell out numbers, format numbers, Style Text, reverse, shuffle, repeat • Data formats: beautify JSON, XML and HTML; JSON and YAML; JSON and CSV; XML to JSON; CSV to Markdown table • Utilities: Base64, URL encoding, encryption with a password, QR codes, UUIDs, text statistics, reading time, dates, math, short URLs WORKS WITH SHORTCUTS Every action and workflow is a Shortcuts action. Clean your clipboard with one tap, or build text automations that run on their own. Use the Share sheet to send text from any app. AI, ON YOUR TERMS AI is one optional step among 50+, not the whole app. Add a prompt step to any workflow with your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, any OpenAI-compatible service such as OpenRouter or LM Studio, or Apple's on-device model. You choose the model and pay the provider directly. Nothing routes through us. TEXT WORKFLOW PRO Free: every action, with results shown in full. Pro lets you copy and share results of any length, create unlimited workflows and compare Input with Result. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://www.gtrigonakis.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

DayCircle3 screens
Text Workflow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Text Workflow at Free against DayCircle's $2.99. Text Workflow also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (95% vs 85%). DayCircle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Text Workflow is free to download; DayCircle costs $2.99 up front. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. DayCircle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for DayCircle against 4.7 for Text Workflow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 202 and 177 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of DayCircle's written reviews are positive against 95% of Text Workflow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DayCircle ships an update every 2 months, Text Workflow fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DayCircle versus Text Workflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayCircleText Workflow
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (202 ratings)4.7 (177 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews95.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings202 — better177
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGenau FactoryGeorgios Trigonakis

Customer experience

DayCircle

All ratings200 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral4.0%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews246 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.3%

Text Workflow

All ratings177 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral4.0%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative0.0%

User reviews

DayCircle

From 202 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🎨 Aesthetically pleasing design
  • ⏱️ Effective countdown/countup functionality
  • 🎉 Helpful for tracking important dates

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional UI/UX issues
  • 🔔 Lacking advanced notification/alarm features
  • 🔄 Limited customization options
  • 🌍 Lack of language support

Text Workflow

From 177 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Adds significant functionality to Shortcuts
  • 💡 Powerful text manipulation and data conversion
  • 👍 Excellent for testing Regex patterns
  • 👍 Incredibly useful and handy
  • 👍 Magic in your pocket

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Family sharing for subscription not enabled
  • 🐛 Free plan has a 100-character limit
  • 🐛 Restore purchase doesn't work
  • 🐛 Last update broke Shortcuts
  • 🐛 Redirecting behavior in Shortcuts even without using the action

Bugs and requests

DayCircle

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widget not updating in real-time
  • UI elements overlapping on certain devices
  • Inconsistent behavior on older iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more theme/color options
  • Implement iCloud/cloud sync
  • Introduce widget functionality
  • Allow recurring event tracking
  • Integrate with calendar apps

Text Workflow

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Last update broke Shortcuts
  • Shortcuts open the app and stop instead of returning data
  • Error message when selecting a workflow in Shortcuts action
  • Restore purchase doesn't work

Requested features

9 requests
  • Support for family sharing for subscriptions
  • Support for more languages
  • Ability to convert VB code to C#
  • Ability to change AI models (e.g., 16K ChatGPT, 32K GPT-4)
  • Ability to alter AI temperature settings, top-p, top-K, frequency penalties, token limit, stop sequence
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  • Support for API endpoints for local AI models
  • Integration with openrouter.ai
  • Accept share-type of a URL as well as text
  • Convert JSON to YAML and vice versa (already added, but mentioned as a request)

In-app purchases

None

DayCircle

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Text Workflow

Subscriptions2
  • Text Workflow Full Access$0.991 Month
  • Text Workflow Full Access7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$17.99

Questions

Is DayCircle free?
DayCircle costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DayCircle or Text Workflow?
Text Workflow is rated higher. DayCircle averages 4.7 out of 5 from 202 ratings, while Text Workflow averages 4.7 from 177 ratings.
Do DayCircle or Text Workflow have ads?
Neither DayCircle nor Text Workflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DayCircle or Text Workflow?
DayCircle ships an update every 2 months, and Text Workflow fortnightly. Most recently, DayCircle was updated on November 3, 2026 and Text Workflow on November 3, 2026.

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