# Text Workflow vs Keka

The clearest difference is price: Text Workflow at Free against Keka's $3.99. Text Workflow also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 82%). Keka's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#35 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

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.

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Text Workflow against 4.8 for Keka. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 176 and 153 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Text Workflow's written reviews are positive against 82% of Keka's.

Text Workflow ships an update monthly, Keka every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

## The numbers

| Metric | Text Workflow | Keka |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | **Free** | $3.99 |
| Rating | [4.8 (176 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-workflow-clean-any-text/id1623230250/reviews) | [4.8 (153 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/keka/id6443677513/reviews) |
| Number of ratings | **176** | 153 |
| Positive reviews | **95.2% of reviews** | 82.1% of reviews |
| In-app purchases | Yes | **No** |
| Ads | No | No |
| Update frequency | **Monthly** | Every 6 weeks |
| Monetization | **Free with in-app purchases** | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | **#35** |
| Size | 32 MB | 49 MB |
| Requires iOS | **15.0** | 15.5 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | **iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro** |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | [Georgios Trigonakis](https://appshunter.io/developer/439577899) | [Jorge Garcia Armero](https://appshunter.io/developer/373208304) |

## What reviewers say

### 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 | $17.99 | 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


### Keka

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/keka/id6443677513)

**Currently charting:** #35 Top Paid · Utilities (US App Store)

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:** macOS Compatibility, iMessage stickers

**In-app purchases:** none

**What reviewers like**

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

**What reviewers complain about**

- 🐛 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

**Reported bugs**

- 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

**Requested features**

- 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


## Frequently asked 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?

Text Workflow and Keka are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 176 and 153 ratings respectively.

### 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 monthly, and Keka every 6 weeks. Most recently, Text Workflow was updated on October 10, 2026 and Keka on October 14, 2026.

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