Comparison

Text Workflow vs Timelines Plus

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

Timelines Plus

Easily create, modify, and share chronological timelines. Organize events with dates, descriptions, and pictures. Back up and sync data across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Create multiple timelines
  • Add dates, descriptions, and pictures to events
  • Automatic iCloud backup
  • Sync data across devices
  • Share timelines and events
Features
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Timelines is a practical mobile application designed to help users easily create, modify, and share their own timelines to showcase a series of events, data, or historical developments in chronological order. Its main features include: 1. Automatic iCloud Backup This app can automatically backup your timeline to iCloud to ensure your data is safe and reliable. It also allows you to sync your data across multiple devices. 2. Timelines This app allows you to create multiple timelines to organize and categorize events according to your needs. You can also modify, delete, and sort timelines to better manage your data. 3. Events Within each timeline, you can create, modify, and delete events to better present your data. You can add information such as dates, descriptions, and pictures to make your timeline more vivid and engaging. In addition, the Timelines app supports sharing timelines and events, making it convenient for you to communicate and showcase your work with others. Whether you want to record your personal growth journey, family travels, gatherings and activities, or contribute to academic research, historical studies, and cultural heritage, Timelines is your ideal choice.

Screenshots

Text Workflow4 screens
Timelines Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Text Workflow at none against Timelines Plus's shown. Text Workflow also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 64%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Timelines Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Workflow ships an update monthly, Timelines Plus every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Workflow versus Timelines Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText WorkflowTimelines Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (176 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews — better63.6% of reviews
Number of ratings176 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorgios Trigonakis庆鸿 林

Customer experience

Text Workflow

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

Timelines Plus

Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral18.2%
Negative18.2%

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)

Timelines Plus

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

Timelines Plus

One-time1
  • Lifetime Membership$9.99

Questions

Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timelines Plus free?
Timelines Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Text Workflow or Timelines Plus have ads?
Timelines Plus shows ads; Text Workflow does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Workflow or Timelines Plus?
Text Workflow ships an update monthly, and Timelines Plus every 3 months. Most recently, Text Workflow was updated on September 25, 2026 and Timelines Plus on September 9, 2026.

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