Comparison

Magic PiP 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

Magic PiP

View multiple types of content in a floating window that hovers over other applications. Supports images, videos, documents, web pages, and utility tools like clocks and timers. Easily share content to the PiP window for seamless multitasking.

Highlights
  • Picture-in-Picture window
  • Supports images and videos
  • View PDFs and TXT files
  • Display PowerPoint slides
  • Clipboard text viewer
  • Web page viewer
  • Clock, stopwatch, and timer
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You never think this is even possible. Magic PiP is an app that can let you view all kinds of stuff in the PiP window. And it can float above other apps, almost like a split-screen! Contents supported: Multiple Images / Video PDF / TXT PowerPoint Slides (.ppt / .pptx) Texts from the clipboard Web page Clock / Stopwatch / Timer Counter Allow open all the stuff from the share sheet. Allow turning pages in the PiP window. Also an auto page-turning feature for reading TXT files.

About

Text Workflow

Automate repetitive text editing tasks with a powerful yet user-friendly tool. Create custom workflows by combining over 45 transformation actions to format, clean, and convert text. All processing is done on-device for enhanced security and privacy.

Highlights
  • Combine transformation actions
  • Save and reuse workflows
  • Over 45 text transformation actions
  • On-device processing
  • JSON, CSV, YAML conversion
  • URL and Base64 encoding/decoding
  • Shortcuts integration
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

Magic PiP4 screens
Text Workflow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Text Workflow at Free against Magic PiP's $1.99. Text Workflow also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 78%) and ratings volume (176 vs 18). Magic PiP's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, update cadence, 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

Text Workflow is free to download; Magic PiP costs $1.99 up front. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Magic PiP 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 Magic PiP against 4.8 for Text Workflow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 176 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Magic PiP's written reviews are positive against 95% of Text Workflow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magic PiP ships an update every 5 weeks, Text Workflow monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Magic PiP versus Text Workflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagic PiPText Workflow
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (18 ratings)4.8 (176 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews95.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18176 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJinyu MengGeorgios Trigonakis

Customer experience

Magic PiP

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral5.6%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%

Text Workflow

All ratings176 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral3.4%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Magic PiP

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

Magic PiP

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 Magic PiP free?
Magic PiP costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Magic PiP or Text Workflow?
Text Workflow is rated higher. Magic PiP averages 4.7 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Text Workflow averages 4.8 from 176 ratings.
Do Magic PiP or Text Workflow have ads?
Neither Magic PiP nor Text Workflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Magic PiP or Text Workflow?
Magic PiP ships an update every 5 weeks, and Text Workflow monthly. Most recently, Magic PiP was updated on October 3, 2026 and Text Workflow on October 10, 2026.

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