Comparison

Text Workflow vs Keka

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

Head to head
About

Text Workflow

Streamline text processing by removing unwanted characters, formatting AI-generated content, and converting data formats. Automate repetitive text tasks with custom workflows and sync them across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Clean AI and web text
  • Remove citations and Markdown
  • Convert Markdown tables to Rich Text/HTML
  • Compare input with result
  • Build custom text workflows
  • Sync workflows via iCloud
  • Over 50 text actions
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/

About

Keka

This app allows you to compress and encrypt files for secure storage and sharing. It also supports browsing and extracting a wide variety of compressed file formats, including encrypted and encoded archives.

Highlights
  • Compress files in multiple formats
  • Encrypt files for secure sharing
  • Extract various archive formats
  • Support for 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, and more
  • Handle encrypted and encoded archives
Features
Currently charting
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Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be. With Keka you can compress as many files as you want in a bunch of formats. You can also encrypt them to store and share securely and with privacy. Keka can also browse and extract lots of compressed files, from ZIP and 7Z to RAR archives. Whether they are encrypted or encoded in with old charsets this is not a problem for Keka. Compression formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, TAR, ZSTD, GZIP, BZIP2 and AppleArchive (AAR) Extraction formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, AAR, XZ, ZSTD, ISO, LZMA, EXE, CAB, MSI, PAX, JAR, APK, APPX, XPI, IPA, CPGZ, CPIO, XIP, CPT and many more Terms of Use: https://www.keka.io/termsofuse

Screenshots

Text Workflow4 screens
Keka4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Text Workflow at Free against Keka's $3.99. Text Workflow also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (95% vs 82%). Keka's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#48 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, 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; Keka costs $3.99 up front. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Keka 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 Text Workflow against 4.8 for Keka. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 177 and 165 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Text Workflow's written reviews are positive against 82% of Keka's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Workflow ships an update fortnightly, Keka every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Text Workflow versus Keka: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText WorkflowKeka
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.7 (177 ratings)4.8 (165 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.3% of reviews — better82.4% of reviews
Number of ratings177 — better165
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#48 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorgios TrigonakisJorge Garcia Armero

Customer experience

Text Workflow

All ratings177 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral4.0%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative0.0%

Keka

All ratings163 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral0.6%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative11.8%

User reviews

Text Workflow

From 177 App Store ratings

What we love

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

Room to improve

  • 🐛 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

Keka

From 165 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Intuitive and simple UI
  • 🚀 Fast and powerful archiving
  • 💰 Affordable one-time purchase
  • 🚫 No ads or subscriptions
  • 🍏 Seamless integration with Apple ecosystem

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Fails when resuming background tasks
  • 🐛 Compression sometimes fails
  • 🐛 Inconsistent decryption with some formats
  • 🐛 Inability to name archives before compression
  • 🐛 Cannot compress multiple folders at once

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
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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)

Keka

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Occasional decryption failures
  • Compression fails when using the share button
  • Background tasks fail when resuming
  • Permission to access files reappears after being revoked
  • Cannot decompress .part files
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  • Cannot decompress .tar.gz files
  • Cannot decompress LZ4 files
  • Windows compatibility issues with character encoding
  • Removal of .7z AES256 encryption support
  • Inability to decompress external split archives
  • Extraction failed errors reported by some users
  • Compression fails for large numbers of files
  • Permission bug: permission reappears after revoking

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add support for .tar.gz decompression
  • Add support for .part files
  • Add option to name archives before compression
  • Add ability to compress multiple folders at once
  • Add ability to add files to existing compressed files
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  • Add option to delete compressed file after compression
  • Add option to view documents without creating a copy
  • Add password confirmation fields
  • Add testing of archives for integrity
  • Add support for LZ4 file decompression
  • Add support for splitting archives on iOS (like macOS)
  • Add Chinese language support
  • Improve German translation quality
  • Clarify location of 'keka folder'

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
None

Keka

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keka free?
Keka costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Workflow or Keka?
Keka is rated higher. Text Workflow averages 4.7 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while Keka averages 4.8 from 165 ratings.
Do Text Workflow or Keka have ads?
Neither Text Workflow nor Keka shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Workflow or Keka?
Text Workflow ships an update fortnightly, and Keka every 2 months. Most recently, Text Workflow was updated on November 3, 2026 and Keka on November 3, 2026.

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