Flowcharts vs AI Actions for Shortcuts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flowcharts
Automate the creation of flowcharts by building pseudocode with basic programming blocks. Visualize your logic as a flowchart with a single tap and save your creations to your device for later use.
- Automated flowchart generation
- Pseudocode building blocks
- Visual logic representation
- Save flowcharts to gallery
- Easy-to-use interface
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Tired of drawing flowcharts? You can use this app to automate the process of drawing flowcharts. You can create your pseudocode using basic building blocks like for loop, while loop, if-else statement, input, output and code block. Once you created your code using blocks you can see your flowchart by just tapping flowchart symbol on the top right corner. Easy as that. You can save the flowcharts you created to your gallery and use anywhere you need it.
AI Actions for Shortcuts
Enhance your iOS Shortcuts with advanced AI capabilities. This app integrates with your existing OpenAI API key to provide powerful new actions for your automations. Note that it does not support Apple Watch or HomePod.
- AI-powered actions for Shortcuts
- Integrates with OpenAI API key
- Adds new automation capabilities
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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Supercharge your shortcuts with useful AI-powered actions. It provides additional actions for the Shortcuts app. Note: The app requires you to specify your own OpenAI API key. The actions are not able to run on Apple Watch or HomePod. Restart your device if the actions don't show up in the Shortcuts app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flowcharts at 5.0 against AI Actions for Shortcuts's 4.6. Flowcharts also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 27.0). AI Actions for Shortcuts's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (26 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flowcharts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AI Actions for Shortcuts has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Flowcharts's written reviews are positive against 77% of AI Actions for Shortcuts's.
Flowcharts ships an update every 4 months, AI Actions for Shortcuts every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flowcharts | AI Actions for Shortcuts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 77.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mert Arican | Sindre Sorhus |
Customer experience
Flowcharts
AI Actions for Shortcuts
In-app purchases
Flowcharts
No in-app purchases
AI Actions for Shortcuts
No in-app purchases
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