Comparison

Text Workflow vs DG Cortex

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

DG Cortex

Features
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Most assistants answer your question and stop. Cortex takes the job, goes and does it, and comes back to you when it is finished. Tap once and talk. Cortex answers out loud, keeps working after you hang up, and tells you the moment it has something for you. WHAT PEOPLE ASK IT "What is the weather doing tomorrow?" Conditions and a short forecast, out loud, with a card on screen. "How much are flights to Denver next Friday?" Airline, price and departure time for the top options. Ask it to watch the route and it tells you when the fare drops. "Get me a ride to the airport." Opens Uber or Lyft with the destination already filled in, or opens Waymo for you to confirm the trip there. "Give me the local news every morning at seven." A short brief arrives on its own from then on. Local news for your city, the top tech headlines, or the weather. Daily, weekly, monthly, or one time. "Do deep research on the best mac and cheese recipes" The big ones keep running after you hang up. IT KEEPS WORKING AFTER YOU HANG UP Hand Cortex something that takes real digging and it carries on in the background. Progress shows on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. You get a notification the moment the write up is ready, and the whole thing is waiting in your Recent feed. Open a result to read it, have Cortex read it aloud at the speed you like, share it, or copy it. Anything you asked for directly can be run again with one tap. ARRIVE AND LEAVE ALERTS Save a place on a map, set how close counts, and get a notification when you arrive or leave. Add a cooldown, and the days and hours it should apply. PUT IT ON THE TABLE Start a note session before a meeting and Cortex writes the room down: a live transcript with speaker labels as people talk. When you finish, the session is saved with a summary and the action items pulled out. Say "Hey Cortex" to ask it something without stopping the notes. Every session is searchable and easy to share afterward. TALKING TO IT Tap the button on the home screen and start speaking. Cut it off mid sentence and it stops and listens. In a quiet room, tap the keyboard and type instead: same answers, same actions. Hands full? Say "Hey Siri, talk to Cortex", or put Cortex on the Action Button and hold, on iPhones that have one. A live transcript of both sides runs on screen while you talk. Search covers every past conversation and every note you have. MAKE IT SOUND RIGHT Pick the voice and tap to hear it. Set the language to English, Spanish or German. Choose quick answers or thorough ones. Turn read aloud on and set the playback speed. Teach it the names and words it keeps getting wrong. YOUR CALL, ALWAYS Cortex listens only when you start a conversation or a note session. Turn off conversation transcripts and every conversation already saved is deleted, on your phone and on our servers. Turn off usage data sharing whenever you want. Delete your account and everything stored with it from inside the app. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dg-cortex.com/privacy

Screenshots

Text Workflow4 screens
DG Cortex3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DG Cortex at none against Text Workflow's 3. Text Workflow's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On price 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. DG Cortex asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Workflow versus DG Cortex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText WorkflowDG Cortex
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (176 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings176 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorgios TrigonakisTimmy Nguyen

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)

DG Cortex

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

DG Cortex

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DG Cortex free?
DG Cortex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Text Workflow or DG Cortex have ads?
Neither Text Workflow nor DG Cortex shows ads.

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