Comparison

znote 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

znote

A markdown text editor designed for easy note management. It features dark mode, tagging, and advanced text formatting. Securely store and share your notes across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Markdown text editing
  • Dark mode support
  • #Tags for organization
  • Advanced text formatting
  • Secure note storage
  • Cross-device synchronization
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Markdown & Text Note Manager. Enjoy great ease of use thanks to Dark mode, #Tags and advanced text formatting. Keep your secrets and share your notes on all your devices.

About

Text Workflow

Effortlessly clean, convert, and format text with over 50 actions. Save repetitive steps as workflows for one-tap execution. Ideal for tidying up text from various sources like PDFs, spreadsheets, and web pages.

Highlights
  • 50+ text manipulation actions
  • Save and run custom workflows
  • Clean AI-generated text
  • Format text from PDFs and web
  • Convert between data formats (JSON, CSV, Markdown)
  • Integrates with Shortcuts
  • Syncs workflows across devices
Features
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Fix messy text in one tap. Text Workflow cleans, converts and formats text with more than 50 actions, and saves the steps as workflows you run again with one tap. Clean up an answer from ChatGPT, text from a PDF, a list from a spreadsheet or a page from the web, then sort it, number it, change its case, or turn it into JSON, CSV, Markdown or rich text. Exact every time, private, and on iPhone, iPad and Mac. HOW IT HELPS • Paste AI answers anywhere: remove [1] citation tags, 【source】 marks, stray ** and ## and hidden characters, or turn Markdown into rich text for Pages, Word and Mail • Sound like yourself: AI Writing Check highlights the words and marks that make text read as AI-written • Fix text from PDFs and scans: rejoin broken lines and hyphenated words, remove page numbers and double spaces • Tidy lists: trim, sort by any word, number, and remove duplicates and empty lines • Make the same edit everywhere at once: find and replace with regular expressions, add prefixes and suffixes, change case • Convert data and code: JSON, CSV, YAML, XML and Markdown tables, with code in color DO IT ONCE. THEN IT'S ONE TAP. Chain actions into a workflow and each step feeds the next. The text job you repeat every week becomes a single tap. • Every action and workflow is a Shortcuts action: clean your clipboard with one tap, or build automations that run on their own • Send text from any app with the Share sheet • If… Else steps, nested workflows, and regular expressions that run a workflow only on the parts that match • Your workflows sync to your Mac and iPad with iCloud • Made for iPhone Duo and landscape: your text gets the whole screen NEW IN 3.5: TEXTS Keep the texts you use again and again, like replies, prompts, signatures and templates. Load one with a tap, search by name or content, pin your favorites, and save text from any app with the Share sheet. With Sync with iCloud on, they're on your Mac and iPad too. Otherwise they stay on this device. Also new: Markdown Table to CSV, and Replace Text understands character codes like \u00A0. WHY TEXT WORKFLOW • Exact every time. The same input always gives the same output. No "regenerate". • Private. Built-in actions run on your device, with no account. • Compare Input with Result to see exactly what changed, by character, word or line. 50+ TEXT ACTIONS, INCLUDING • Editing and lines: find and replace (plain or RegEx), prefix and suffix, sort, number, break and trim lines, remove empty lines, duplicates and extra spaces • Cleanup: Clean AI Text, AI Writing Check, Remove Citations, Fix PDF Text, remove Markdown or HTML, quotes, accents, invisible characters • Case and style: UPPER, lower, Title, camelCase, spell out and format numbers, Style Text • Data formats: Markdown to Rich Text and HTML, JSON and YAML, JSON and CSV, XML to JSON, CSV and Markdown tables • Utilities: Base64, URL encoding, encryption, QR codes, UUIDs, text statistics, dates, math, Run Script AI, ON YOUR TERMS Add an optional AI step to any workflow with your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, any OpenAI-compatible service, or Apple's on-device model. You pay the provider directly, and nothing routes through us. TEXT WORKFLOW PRO Free: every action, with results shown in full, and up to 10 texts. Pro lets you copy and share results of any length, create unlimited workflows, save unlimited texts 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

znote4 screens
Text Workflow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Text Workflow at 4.7 against znote's 4.0. Text Workflow also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 67%) and ratings volume (178 vs 1). znote's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence 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. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. znote asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Text Workflow holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 178 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of znote's written reviews are positive against 95% of Text Workflow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

znote ships an update every 9 days, Text Workflow fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
znote versus Text Workflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterznoteText Workflow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (178 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews95.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1178 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony Lagrede ConsultingGeorgios Trigonakis

Customer experience

znote

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Text Workflow

All ratings178 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

znote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

znote

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 znote free?
znote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, znote or Text Workflow?
Text Workflow is rated higher. znote averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Text Workflow averages 4.7 from 178 ratings.
Do znote or Text Workflow have ads?
Neither znote nor Text Workflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, znote or Text Workflow?
znote ships an update every 9 days, and Text Workflow fortnightly. Most recently, znote was updated on November 3, 2026 and Text Workflow on November 7, 2026.

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