Comparison

Text Workflow vs Re

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

Head to head
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 messy AI & web text — in seconds. Paste an answer out of ChatGPT, Claude, or any website and it's full of formatting garbage: stray markdown, [1] citation tags, curly quotes, invisible characters, broken line breaks. Text Workflow strips the junk and hands back clean, paste-ready text — exactly, every time, without your text ever leaving your device. It's the fast, private, deterministic cleanup layer for the AI era. And it runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with your workflows synced over iCloud. WHY TEXT WORKFLOW • Exact, every time — Deterministic transforms. No hallucinations, no "regenerate." The same input always gives the same output. • Nothing leaves your device — Every transformation runs on-device and offline. Never paste sensitive text into a website or a chatbot just to reformat it. • Built for the whole job — Chain 50+ actions into a workflow, save it, and run it with one click forever. • On every Apple device — A real native app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Build a workflow on your Mac and run it from your phone, synced over iCloud. CLEAN UP AI & WEB TEXT • Remove Markdown syntax • Markdown → Rich Text — paste formatted text straight into Pages, Word, Mail, or Notes • Markdown → HTML • Convert to plain text • Straight ↔ curly quotes • Remove accents & diacritics • Delete invisible and non-printable characters • Strip HTML tags BUILD POWERFUL WORKFLOWS Chain actions together and the output of each step feeds the next. Turn the repetitive text job you do every week into a single click. • Drag to reorder, toggle steps on and off, nest workflows inside workflows • Precise with Regular Expressions — extract, replace with capture groups, or apply a workflow only to the parts that match a pattern • Save your workflows and sync them across all your devices with iCloud 50+ TEXT ACTIONS, INCLUDING • Editing & lines — find & replace (plain or RegEx), add prefix/suffix, insert text, sort/number/break/trim lines, remove empty lines, line breaks, duplicates and extra spaces, filter and extract by pattern • Case & style — UPPER, lower, Title, camelCase, PascalCase, spell out numbers, format numbers, Style Text (bold, italic, circled, and more), reverse, shuffle, repeat • Data formats — beautify JSON, XML, HTML; JSON ↔ YAML; JSON ↔ CSV; XML → JSON; CSV → Markdown table • Encoding & utilities — Base64, URL encode/decode, encrypt/decrypt with a password, generate QR code, generate UUID, text statistics, reading time, date converter, math, shorten URLs DEEP APPLE INTEGRATION • Apple Shortcuts — every workflow is available as a Shortcuts action; automate text across your whole system with Siri, triggers, and schedules • Menu bar & Services on Mac — transform selected text from anywhere without opening the app AI, ON YOUR TERMS AI is one optional step among 50+ — not the whole app. Add a custom-prompt action mid-workflow using your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. You choose the model, you pay the provider directly, and nothing routes through us. TEXT WORKFLOW PRO — SUBSCRIPTION Text Workflow Pro removes the 100-character limit from text results and allows the creation of unlimited workflows. 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/

About

Re

Easily transform Mastodon posts into shareable images with author attribution and alternative text. This utility allows you to create visually appealing quote posts for Mastodon and other social platforms.

Highlights
  • Create image quote posts from Mastodon
  • Include author attribution
  • Generate alternative text for images
  • Share to other social networks
  • Use via Share Sheet
Features
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Re: Toot turns Mastodon posts into images that are suitable for quote posts. Images are accompanied by attribution to the original author and an alternative text. Images created by Re: Toot can also be shared to other social networks and messaging services. To create an image from a Mastodon post, just copy the link the post and open Re: Toot or invoke the app through the Share Sheet. Re: Toot is free to use and all settings can be unlocked through a one-time in-app purchase.

Screenshots

Text Workflow4 screens
Re4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Re at daily against Text Workflow's monthly. Re also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Text Workflow's advantage is ratings volume (173 vs 32). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Re sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Re holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 173 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Text Workflow's written reviews are positive against 100% of Re's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Workflow ships an update monthly, Re daily. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Workflow versus Re: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText WorkflowRe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (173 ratings)5.0 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings173 — better32
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorgios TrigonakisSimon B. Støvring

Customer experience

Text Workflow

All ratings173 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral3.5%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive95.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative0.0%

Re

All ratings32 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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
Show 4 more
  • 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)

Re

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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$12.99
1 purchases

Re

One-time1
  • Full Version$2.99

Questions

Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Re free?
Re is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Text Workflow or Re?
Re is rated higher. Text Workflow averages 4.7 out of 5 from 173 ratings, while Re averages 5.0 from 32 ratings.
Do Text Workflow or Re have ads?
Neither Text Workflow nor Re shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Workflow or Re?
Text Workflow ships an update monthly, and Re daily. Most recently, Text Workflow was updated on September 21, 2026 and Re on August 14, 2026.

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