Comparison

Text Workflow vs ASCII Charts

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. Save repetitive steps as workflows for one-tap execution. Ideal for tidying up text from various sources like PDFs, spreadsheets, and web pages.

Highlights
  • 50+ text manipulation actions
  • Save and run custom workflows
  • Clean AI-generated text
  • Format text from PDFs and web
  • Convert between data formats (JSON, CSV, Markdown)
  • Integrates with Shortcuts
  • Syncs workflows across devices
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

ASCII Charts

Transform numerical data into visually appealing ASCII art charts. Ideal for data enthusiasts and coders who want to represent numbers creatively. Share your insights with stylish, text-based visualizations.

Highlights
  • Create ASCII art charts
  • Visualize numerical data
  • Share data insights
  • User-friendly interface
  • Supports iPhone and iPad
Features
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Unlock the power of visual representation with ASCII Chart generator, the must-have app for turning numerical data into stunning ASCII art charts! Whether you’re a data enthusiast, coder, or just someone who loves visualizing numbers, this app is your go-to tool.

Screenshots

Text Workflow4 screens
ASCII Charts3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Text Workflow at Free against ASCII Charts's $1.99. Text Workflow also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (178 vs 18). ASCII Charts's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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; ASCII Charts costs $1.99 up front. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and ASCII Charts 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

ASCII Charts holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 178 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 95% of Text Workflow's written reviews are positive against 92% of ASCII Charts's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Workflow ships an update fortnightly, ASCII Charts every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Text Workflow versus ASCII Charts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText WorkflowASCII Charts
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.7 (178 ratings)4.9 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.3% of reviews — better91.7% of reviews
Number of ratings178 — better18
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorgios TrigonakisAlexander Kaessner

Customer experience

Text Workflow

All ratings178 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative0.0%

ASCII Charts

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

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)

ASCII Charts

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

ASCII Charts

One-time1
  • Tip$2.99

Questions

Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ASCII Charts free?
ASCII Charts costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Workflow or ASCII Charts?
ASCII Charts is rated higher. Text Workflow averages 4.7 out of 5 from 178 ratings, while ASCII Charts averages 4.9 from 18 ratings.
Do Text Workflow or ASCII Charts have ads?
Neither Text Workflow nor ASCII Charts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Workflow or ASCII Charts?
Text Workflow ships an update fortnightly, and ASCII Charts every 2 months. Most recently, Text Workflow was updated on November 7, 2026 and ASCII Charts on November 4, 2026.

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