# Magic PiP vs Text Workflow

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.

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.

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.

Magic PiP ships an update every 5 weeks, Text Workflow monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

## The numbers

| Metric | Magic PiP | Text Workflow |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $1.99 | **Free** |
| Rating | [4.7 (18 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-pip/id1613046504/reviews) | **[4.8 (176 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-workflow-clean-any-text/id1623230250/reviews)** |
| Number of ratings | 18 | **176** |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | **95.0% of reviews** |
| In-app purchases | **No** | Yes |
| Ads | No | No |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | **Monthly** |
| Monetization | Paid | **Free with in-app purchases** |
| Size | 2 MB | 34 MB |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | [Jinyu Meng](https://appshunter.io/developer/1052803981) | [Georgios Trigonakis](https://appshunter.io/developer/439577899) |

## What reviewers say

### Magic PiP

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-pip/id1613046504)

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

**In-app purchases:** none


### Text Workflow

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-workflow-clean-any-text/id1623230250)

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:** Family Sharing, Vision Pro support

**In-app purchases (3)**

| Purchase | Price | Billing |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text Workflow Full Access | $0.99 | per month |
| Text Workflow Full Access | $6.99 | per year |
| Lifetime Premium | $12.99 | one-time |

**What reviewers like**

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

**What reviewers complain about**

- 🐛 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

**Reported bugs**

- 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**

- 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


## Frequently asked 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 September 16, 2026 and Text Workflow on September 25, 2026.

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*Compared by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/) from daily US App Store data. Review summaries are generated from verbatim App Store reviews.*