# Text Workflow vs LightCamera

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LightCamera at none against Text Workflow's 3. Text Workflow's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.

Both are free to download. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. LightCamera asks for nothing beyond the download.

Text Workflow ships an update every 8 days, LightCamera every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

## The numbers

| Metric | Text Workflow | LightCamera |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | **[4.7 (178 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-workflow-clean-any-text/id1623230250/reviews)** | — |
| Number of ratings | **178** | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.6% of reviews | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | **No** |
| Ads | **No** | Yes |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | **Every 5 days** |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Size | 36 MB | 15 MB |
| Requires iOS | **17.0** | 26.2 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | [Georgios Trigonakis](https://appshunter.io/developer/439577899) | [Yasuko Shikiuchi](https://appshunter.io/developer/316029096) |

## What reviewers say

### Text Workflow

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-workflow-clean-any-text/id1623230250)

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:** Family Sharing, Vision Pro support, iPhone Duo support

**In-app purchases (3)**

| Purchase | Price | Billing |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text Workflow Full Access | $0.99 | per month |
| Text Workflow Full Access | $6.99 | per year |
| Lifetime Premium | $17.99 | one-time |

**What reviewers like**

- 🚀 Adds significant functionality to Shortcuts
- 💡 Powerful text manipulation and data conversion
- 👍 Excellent for testing Regex patterns
- 👍 Incredibly useful and handy
- 👍 Magic in your pocket

**What reviewers complain about**

- 🐛 Family sharing for subscription not enabled
- 🐛 Free plan has a 100-character limit
- 🐛 Restore purchase doesn't work
- 🐛 Last update broke Shortcuts
- 🐛 Redirecting behavior in Shortcuts even without using the action

**Reported bugs**

- 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**

- 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


### LightCamera

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lightcamera-shoot-and-share/id6758910539)

**Features:** macOS Compatibility, Vision Pro support

**In-app purchases:** none


## Frequently asked questions

### Is Text Workflow free?

Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

### Is LightCamera free?

LightCamera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

### Do Text Workflow or LightCamera have ads?

LightCamera shows ads; Text Workflow does not.

### Which is updated more often, Text Workflow or LightCamera?

Text Workflow ships an update every 8 days, and LightCamera every 5 days. Most recently, Text Workflow was updated on November 12, 2026 and LightCamera on November 5, 2026.

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