Comparison

Text Workflow vs Text Cleaner

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

Text Cleaner

Easily transform text with various case conversions and cleaning tools. This utility app removes unwanted characters, spaces, and line breaks, while also counting words and sentences. It offers intuitive controls for quick editing and a straightforward user experience.

Highlights
  • Case conversion (uppercase, lowercase, title case, etc.)
  • Text cleaning (remove spaces, line breaks, HTML)
  • Word, sentence, and character counting
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Intuitive copy/paste/delete controls
Features
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Paste messy text. Get clean text. Text Cleaner fixes the text that Word, PDFs, web pages and chat apps quietly break — the double spaces, stray line breaks, curly quotes, odd dashes, HTML tags and invisible characters you cannot see but every editor can. One tap on Clean pasted text does the whole job. 28 TRANSFORMS, ONE SCREEN No menus to dig through. Every tool sits on a single screen. REMOVE • Clean pasted text — the one-tap fix • Line breaks, blank lines, trailing whitespace • Double and extra spaces • Accents and diacritics (é → e) • HTML tags and Markdown • Punctuation, emoji, invisible characters • Curly quotes and em dashes CONVERT CASE • UPPERCASE and lowercase • Title Case and Sentence case • camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case • CONSTANT_CASE and aLtErNaTiNg FORMAT • Sort A–Z or Z–A • Remove duplicate lines • Reverse LIVE COUNTS Characters, words and sentences update as you type — useful for posts, abstracts and anything with a limit. SAVED TEXTS Keep the snippets you reuse and paste them back in a tap. CLEAN FROM ANY APP Select text in Safari, Mail or Notes, share it to Text Cleaner, and the tidy version comes straight back. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every transform runs on your device. No account, no network, no tracking. Your text never leaves your iPhone.

Screenshots

Text Workflow4 screens
Text Cleaner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Cleaner at none against Text Workflow's 3. Text Workflow's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 37 months) and ratings volume (176 vs 30). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Text Cleaner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Text Workflow against 4.8 for Text Cleaner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 176 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Text Workflow's written reviews are positive against 100% of Text Cleaner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Workflow ships an update monthly, Text Cleaner every 37 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Text Workflow versus Text Cleaner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText WorkflowText Cleaner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (176 ratings)4.8 (30 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings176 — better30
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 37 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorgios TrigonakisPixelated Development

Customer experience

Text Workflow

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

Text Cleaner

All ratings30 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 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)

Text Cleaner

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
None

Text Cleaner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Text Cleaner free?
Text Cleaner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Workflow or Text Cleaner?
Text Cleaner is rated higher. Text Workflow averages 4.8 out of 5 from 176 ratings, while Text Cleaner averages 4.8 from 30 ratings.
Do Text Workflow or Text Cleaner have ads?
Neither Text Workflow nor Text Cleaner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Workflow or Text Cleaner?
Text Workflow ships an update monthly, and Text Cleaner every 37 months. Most recently, Text Workflow was updated on September 25, 2026 and Text Cleaner on September 18, 2026.

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