Comparison

Actions vs Rooster Wake

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

Head to head
About

Actions

This app provides a vast collection of additional actions to enhance the functionality of the Shortcuts app on iOS. It offers a wide range of tools for manipulating data, interacting with device features, and automating complex tasks.

Highlights
  • Add to List
  • Apply Capture Date
  • Blur Images
  • Calculate with Soulver
  • Convert Date to Unix Time
  • Format Number as Ordinal
  • Get Device Details (Extended)
  • Get SF Symbol Image
Features
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Supercharge your shortcuts with lots of useful actions. It provides additional actions for the Shortcuts app. IMPORTANT: Because of an iOS bug, to make the actions show up in the Shortcuts app, you need to first launch the app and then restart your device. 重要提示:由于 iOS 错误,要使操作显示在“快捷方式”应用程序中,您需要先启动该应用程序,然后重新启动设备。 WICHTIG: Aufgrund eines iOS-Fehlers müssen Sie, damit die Aktionen in der Shortcuts-App angezeigt werden, zuerst die App starten und dann Ihr Gerät neu starten. IMPORTANT : en raison d'un bug iOS, pour que les actions s'affichent dans l'application Raccourcis, vous devez d'abord lancer l'application, puis redémarrer votre appareil. The actions are not able to run on Apple Watch or HomePod. Restart your device if the actions don't show up in the Shortcuts app. ■ Actions - Add to List - Apply Capture Date - Ask for Text with Timeout - Authenticate - Blur Images - Boolean - Calculate with Soulver - Choose from List (Extended) - Clamp Number - Color - Combine Lists - Combine Videos - Convert Coordinates to Location - Convert Date to Unix Time - Convert Location to Geo URI - Convert Unix Time to Date - Create Color Image - Create Menu Item - Create URL - Download File - Edit URL - Encrypt File - Encrypt Text - Filter List - Find Music Playlist - Format Currency - Format Date Difference - Format Duration - Format Number as Ordinal - Format Number — Compact - Format Person Name - Format Text List - Generate CSV - Generate Haptic Feedback - Generate Random Data - Generate Random Text - Generate UUID - Get All System Colors - Get Audio Playback Destination - Get Average Color - Get Average Color of Image - Get Battery State - Get Bluetooth Device - Get Bluetooth Devices - Get Boolean from Input - Get Compass Heading - Get Device Details (Extended) - Get Device Motion Activity - Get Device Motion Data - Get Device Orientation - Get Dominant Colors of Image - Get Elevation - Get Emojis - Get File Path - Get High-Resolution Timestamp - Get Image Capture Date / Set Image Capture Date - Get Image Location / Set Image Location - Get Index of List Item - Get Map Image of Location - Get Paragraphs from Text - Get Query Item Value from URL - Get Query Items from URL - Get Query Items from URL as Dictionary - Get Random Boolean - Get Random Color - Get Random Date and Time - Get Random Emoticon - Get Random Floating-Point Number - Get Random Number from Seed - Get Related Words - Get Sentences from Text - Get SF Symbol Image - Get System Color - Get Title of URL - Get Uniform Type Identifier / Set Uniform Type Identifier - Get User Details - Get Values Using JSONPath - Global Variable - Hex Encode - Hide Shortcuts App - Invert Images - Is Accessibility Feature On - Is Audio Playing - Is Bluetooth On - Is Call Active - Is Cellular Data On - Is Cellular Low Data Mode On - Is Conforming to Uniform Type Identifier - Is Connected to VPN - Is Dark Mode On - Is Day - Is Device Locked - Is Device Moving - Is Device Orientation - Is Host Reachable - Is Location Services Enabled - Is Low Power Mode On - Is Online - Is Shaking Device - Is Silent Mode On - Is Time - Is Time In Range - Is Web Server Reachable - Join Wi-Fi - Merge Dictionaries - Open URLs in Safari - Overwrite File - Parse CSV - Parse JSON5 - Pick Color - Pretty Print Dictionaries - Remove Duplicate Lines - Remove Duplicates from List - Remove Emojis - Remove Empty Lines - Remove from List - Remove Non-Printable Characters - Reverse Lines - Reverse List - Round Number to Multiple - Scan Documents - Scan QR Codes in Image - Set Creation and Modification Date of File - Show Black Screen - Show Notification - Shuffle List - Sort List - Sort Months - Spell Out Number - Toggle Boolean - Transform Lists - Transform Text - Transform Text with JavaScript - Trim Whitespace - Truncate List - Truncate Number - Truncate Text - Wait Milliseconds - Write or Edit Text

About

Rooster Wake

Features
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Rooster Wake is for a computer that should be asleep by default, awake while it is being used, and there when you need it. Send a machine to sleep from the sofa, or from another country. Hold it awake while a long job runs, and let it drop back to sleep ten minutes after the last activity. Wake it before you sit down at it. See what the arrangement saved. THE MACHINE'S DAY • Sleep — one tap, and the machine suspends in seconds • Keep awake — hold it up for a window you choose, and it sleeps again by itself when the window ends • It holds itself up while it is genuinely in use: a remote session, a file transfer, a download, a coding session — and lets go ten minutes after the last activity • Restart and shut down, with every action confirmed rather than assumed • Wake it before you sit down at it, or on a schedule that keeps to the clock through the daylight-saving changes WAKING: THE PART THAT DEPENDS ON YOUR HARDWARE A sleeping PC cannot wake itself, so the wake is sent by something on its own network that stays awake: an Amazon Echo you already own, through the free Alexa skill; the free Rooster Wake agent on a NAS, a Home Assistant box, a mini PC or a Raspberry Pi; or a small dongle you build. A wired desktop wakes on a packet. A laptop on Wi-Fi cannot be woken over the network at all — that is the radio, not us — so you sleep it from here and wake it at its own keyboard or by opening the lid. Everything else in this list still works on it. WHAT'S IN THE APP • One roster for every machine, with live presence and the state each one is in • Sleep, keep awake, restart, shut down and wake — with the reason when something does not land • Schedules: wake or power down on a timetable • Voice: "Alexa, turn on the office PC" — the Alexa skill is free on every plan • Share access with family or a team, with roles that limit what each person can do • Activity history: every wake and power action, who asked, and whether it worked • Push notifications when a machine comes up or goes down • An estimate of the electricity saved over the hours your machines spend asleep, priced at your own tariff Getting started is free: sign in with your email and install the free agent on the machine you want to control — it adds itself to your list. Setting up takes minutes at roosterwake.com. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Actions2 screens
Rooster Wake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Actions at none against Rooster Wake's 2. Rooster Wake's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Rooster Wake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per year. Actions asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Actions versus Rooster Wake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActionsRooster Wake
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (469 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings469 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSindre SorhusMeet Me At Work

Bugs and requests

Actions

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Errors when using list manipulation actions
  • Incompatibility with HomePod mini
  • Shortcut actions not working on iPhone 15 Pro

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for device orientation detection
  • Integrate with more system-level APIs
  • Provide a way to create custom actions
  • Expand language support beyond English

Rooster Wake

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Actions

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Rooster Wake

Subscriptions2
  • Plus$11.991 Year
  • Pro$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Actions free?
Actions is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rooster Wake free?
Rooster Wake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Actions or Rooster Wake have ads?
Neither Actions nor Rooster Wake shows ads.

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