Nautomate vs ShortFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nautomate
This app integrates over 40 native actions into your device's automation tool, allowing for extensive control over your notes and databases. Automate the creation of pages, databases, and searches, or extract and convert data into various formats. It supports multiple workspaces and offers tutorials for easy integration.
- Create Notion pages with rich content
- Create databases with custom properties
- Add/modify database values
- Perform powerful database searches
- Extract markdown from pages
- Convert databases to CSV, Markdown, or JSON
- Supports multiple Notion workspaces
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Nautomate adds 40+ native Notion actions to Shortcuts, giving you automation superpowers! Fully automate your whole Notion world: • Create pages with rich content blocks • Create databases with custom properties • Add to or modify values in a database • Create powerful searches for databases • Extract markdown from a page • Convert a database to a CSV, Markdown Table or JSON Dictionary • Supports connections to multiple workspaces ...and much more! Each action includes a detailed description along with example shortcuts and tutorials to get you started. More than half of the actions are completely FREE to use, forever. Available on iOS, iPadOS & Mac. A single subscription unlocks everything across all devices and allows family sharing. None of your Notion data is ever viewable by any third-parties. --- Terms of Use: https://nautomate.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://nautomate.app/privacy
ShortFlow
Access your favorite apps, websites, and custom shortcuts directly from your iPhone's Lock Screen. Create personalized widget buttons with a vast icon library for quick launching. Supports Always-On display and offers advanced customization options.
- Launch apps from Lock Screen
- Open URLs from Lock Screen
- Access Shortcuts app actions
- Customizable widget buttons
- Over 4,000 icons available
- Supports Always-On display
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Open any apps, shortcuts, URLs from the Lock Screen. Place custom widget buttons on your Lock Screen, with your choice of over 4,000 icons. Each can be configured to launch your favorite app, website, or any shortcut from the Shortcuts app. Other Features: • Display custom title on a widget • Built-in presets for quick configuration • Supports iPhone 14 Pro's Always-On display • Easily change widgets through the app Pro Features: • Transparent widget backgrounds • Create up to 20 different widgets • Place an inline widget above time
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShortFlow at 4.7 against Nautomate's 3.4. ShortFlow also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 43%) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Nautomate's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Nautomate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and ShortFlow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShortFlow holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShortFlow has 196 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Nautomate's written reviews are positive against 68% of ShortFlow's.
Nautomate ships an update every 3 weeks, ShortFlow every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nautomate | ShortFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (27 ratings) | 4.7 (196 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 67.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 196 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Snailed It Development Ltd | Kenneth Kao |
Customer experience
Nautomate
ShortFlow
Bugs and requests
Nautomate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ShortFlow
Reported bugs
8 issues- App and ShirFlow both launch when shortcut is pressed
- Shortcuts do not appear in widget list
- App does not work on iOS17
- Face ID required even for lock screen shortcuts
- Black screen followed by shortcuts app and then target app
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- Icons disappear after iPhone restart, requiring unlock and widget run
- Buttons within widgets are not functional
- Pro version states up to 8 widgets, but only 4 are supported
Requested features
6 requests- Add Tidal as a preset
- More than 8 shortcut slots
- Add Spotify support
- Add Naverpay support
- Remove icon background
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- Longer widget size with 4 configurations
In-app purchases
Nautomate
- Monthly7 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$11.991 Year
ShortFlow
- ShortFlow Pro$2.99
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