Text Workflow vs Control Mark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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Clean up AI and web text in one tap. Copy an answer from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any website and it comes with junk: [1] citation tags, 【source】 marks, stray ** and ## symbols, curly quotes, invisible characters, broken line breaks. Text Workflow removes all of it and gives you clean text, ready to paste. Exact, every time, and private. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and your workflows sync over iCloud. NEW IN 3.0 • Clean AI Text: one action removes citations, hidden characters, extra spaces and Markdown symbols. You choose what goes, and code blocks are never touched. • Remove Citations: strips [1], [7][8], [web:1], 【4:0†source】 and Wikipedia notes. • Markdown tables: tables from AI answers now convert to Rich Text and HTML. Format Markdown Table lines up the columns. • Compare Input with Result: see exactly what changed, by character, word or line. • A new text editor with line numbers, visible spaces and tabs, a monospaced font and Find. • Gemini joins OpenAI and Claude, with the newest models. WHY TEXT WORKFLOW • Exact, every time. The same input always gives the same output. No hallucinations, no "regenerate". • Private. Built-in actions run on your device. Never paste sensitive text into a website just to reformat it. • Built for the whole job. Chain 50+ actions into a workflow, save it and run it with one tap. • On every Apple device. A native app on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with workflows synced over iCloud. CLEAN UP AI AND WEB TEXT • Clean AI Text and Remove Citations • Remove Markdown, or turn it into Rich Text for Pages, Word and Mail • Markdown to HTML, with tables • Convert to plain text, strip HTML tags • Straight and curly quotes, accents and diacritics • Delete invisible and non-printable characters BUILD POWERFUL WORKFLOWS Chain actions together and each step feeds the next. Turn the text job you repeat every week into a single tap. • Reorder steps, switch them on and off, nest workflows inside workflows • Regular Expressions: extract, replace with capture groups, or run a workflow only on matching parts • Sync your workflows across all your devices with iCloud 50+ TEXT ACTIONS, INCLUDING • Editing and lines: find and replace (plain or RegEx), prefix and suffix, insert text, sort, number, break and trim lines, remove empty lines, line breaks, duplicates and extra spaces • Case and style: UPPER, lower, Title, camelCase, spell out numbers, format numbers, Style Text, reverse, shuffle, repeat • Data formats: beautify JSON, XML and HTML; JSON and YAML; JSON and CSV; XML to JSON; CSV to Markdown table • Utilities: Base64, URL encoding, encryption with a password, QR codes, UUIDs, text statistics, reading time, dates, math, short URLs WORKS WITH SHORTCUTS Every action and workflow is a Shortcuts action. Clean your clipboard with one tap, or build text automations that run on their own. Use the Share sheet to send text from any app. AI, ON YOUR TERMS AI is one optional step among 50+, not the whole app. Add a prompt step to any workflow with your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, any OpenAI-compatible service such as OpenRouter or LM Studio, or Apple's on-device model. You choose the model and pay the provider directly. Nothing routes through us. TEXT WORKFLOW PRO Free: every action, with results shown in full. Pro lets you copy and share results of any length, create unlimited workflows 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/
Control Mark
Create quick access shortcuts to your favorite websites. Add any webpage and place these shortcuts on your lockscreen, as action buttons, or as Control Center widgets for instant access.
- Add any webpage as a shortcut
- Share sheet extension for easy adding
- Customizable shortcut symbols
- Lockscreen quick actions
- Control Center widget integration
- Action Button support
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Control Mark lets you create quick access shortcuts to your favorite websites. Add any website in the Control Mark or while browsing using the Add Page to Control Mark action. You can then place your favorite websites on your lockscreen as quick action button, as action for the Action Button, or as Control Center Widget. Features: - Add any webpage as Control Mark - Action Extension for the Share sheet to add a Control Mark directly from the browser - Choose an individual symbol for the Control Mark - Add Control Marks to your lockscreen as quick action, to the Control Center, or the Action Button
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Text Workflow at 95% against Control Mark's 0%. Text Workflow also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (176 vs 1). Control Mark's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On ads 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
Text Workflow is free to download; Control Mark costs $0.99 up front. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Control Mark asks for nothing beyond the download.
Control Mark holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 176 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 95% of Text Workflow's written reviews are positive against 0% of Control Mark's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Text Workflow ships an update monthly, Control Mark every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Workflow | Control Mark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (176 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 176 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Georgios Trigonakis | Arno Appenzeller |
Customer experience
Text Workflow
Control Mark
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
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- 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)
Control Mark
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Workflow
- Text Workflow Full Access$0.991 Month
- Text Workflow Full Access7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$17.99
Control Mark
No in-app purchases
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