Comparison

Text Workflow vs FindText

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

Head to head
About

Text Workflow

Effortlessly clean, convert, and format text with over 50 actions. Automate repetitive text tasks by saving steps as workflows, accessible with a single tap. Works privately on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Highlights
  • 50+ text cleaning and formatting actions
  • Save and run custom text workflows
  • Clean AI-generated text
  • Format text from PDFs and web pages
  • Convert text to JSON, CSV, Markdown
  • Integrates with Shortcuts for automation
  • Sync workflows across devices with iCloud
Features
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Fix messy text in one tap. Text Workflow cleans, converts and formats text with more than 50 actions, and saves the steps as workflows you run again with one tap. Clean up an answer from ChatGPT, text from a PDF, a list from a spreadsheet or a page from the web, then sort it, number it, change its case, or turn it into JSON, CSV, Markdown or rich text. Exact every time, private, and on iPhone, iPad and Mac. HOW IT HELPS • Paste AI answers anywhere: remove [1] citation tags, 【source】 marks, stray ** and ## and hidden characters, or turn Markdown into rich text for Pages, Word and Mail • Sound like yourself: AI Writing Check highlights the words and marks that make text read as AI-written • Fix text from PDFs and scans: rejoin broken lines and hyphenated words, remove page numbers and double spaces • Tidy lists: trim, sort by any word, number, and remove duplicates and empty lines • Make the same edit everywhere at once: find and replace with regular expressions, add prefixes and suffixes, change case • Convert data and code: JSON, CSV, YAML, XML and Markdown tables, with code in color DO IT ONCE. THEN IT'S ONE TAP. Chain actions into a workflow and each step feeds the next. The text job you repeat every week becomes a single tap. • Every action and workflow is a Shortcuts action: clean your clipboard with one tap, or build automations that run on their own • Send text from any app with the Share sheet • If… Else steps, nested workflows, and regular expressions that run a workflow only on the parts that match • Your workflows sync to your Mac and iPad with iCloud • Made for iPhone Duo and landscape: your text gets the whole screen NEW IN 3.5: TEXTS Keep the texts you use again and again, like replies, prompts, signatures and templates. Load one with a tap, search by name or content, pin your favorites, and save text from any app with the Share sheet. With Sync with iCloud on, they're on your Mac and iPad too. Otherwise they stay on this device. Also new: Markdown Table to CSV, and Replace Text understands character codes like \u00A0. WHY TEXT WORKFLOW • Exact every time. The same input always gives the same output. No "regenerate". • Private. Built-in actions run on your device, with no account. • Compare Input with Result to see exactly what changed, by character, word or line. 50+ TEXT ACTIONS, INCLUDING • Editing and lines: find and replace (plain or RegEx), prefix and suffix, sort, number, break and trim lines, remove empty lines, duplicates and extra spaces • Cleanup: Clean AI Text, AI Writing Check, Remove Citations, Fix PDF Text, remove Markdown or HTML, quotes, accents, invisible characters • Case and style: UPPER, lower, Title, camelCase, spell out and format numbers, Style Text • Data formats: Markdown to Rich Text and HTML, JSON and YAML, JSON and CSV, XML to JSON, CSV and Markdown tables • Utilities: Base64, URL encoding, encryption, QR codes, UUIDs, text statistics, dates, math, Run Script AI, ON YOUR TERMS Add an optional AI step to any workflow with your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, any OpenAI-compatible service, or Apple's on-device model. You pay the provider directly, and nothing routes through us. TEXT WORKFLOW PRO Free: every action, with results shown in full, and up to 10 texts. Pro lets you copy and share results of any length, create unlimited workflows, save unlimited texts 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

FindText

Easily find and replace text within your documents. Supports case sensitivity, regular expressions, and replacing all occurrences with a new phrase.

Highlights
  • Paste text from clipboard
  • Find and Replace functions
  • Case sensitive or insensitive search
  • Regular expression support
  • Replace all occurrences
Features
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Find and replace text: 1. Enter or Paste your text from the clipboard into the TextView 2. You can choose Find or Replace function 3. Enter the word or phrase you want to replace in Find what. 4. Enter your new text in Replace with. 5. Replace All to change all occurrences of the word or phrase. To specify only upper or lowercase in your search, select Matching Case or Ignoring Case. For advanced users, we've also added the ability to find patterns using a regular expression. Click the Search button in the search field to see the basic regular expressions or enter the regular expression that you want to replace in Find what.

Screenshots

Text Workflow4 screens
FindText4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Text Workflow at 4.7 against FindText's 3.7. Text Workflow also leads on ratings volume (179 vs 3). FindText's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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 FindText 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

Text Workflow holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 179 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 96% of Text Workflow's written reviews are positive against 100% of FindText's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Workflow versus FindText: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText WorkflowFindText
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (179 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews95.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings179 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorgios TrigonakisThach Nguyen Trong

Customer experience

Text Workflow

All ratings179 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive95.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative0.0%

FindText

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 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)

FindText

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$17.99
1 purchases

FindText

One-time1
  • Premium Version$3.99

Questions

Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FindText free?
FindText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Text Workflow or FindText?
Text Workflow is rated higher. Text Workflow averages 4.7 out of 5 from 179 ratings, while FindText averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Text Workflow or FindText have ads?
Neither Text Workflow nor FindText shows ads.

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