Comparison

Chronometer and Countdown HD vs Text Workflow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Chronometer and Countdown HD

This utility app transforms your iPad into a versatile multi-stopwatch and multi-countdown timer. It's ideal for timing sporting events, athletic training, or motor racing, allowing simultaneous use of multiple timers and lap measurements.

Highlights
  • 4 independent stopwatches
  • Lap timing for up to 8 events
  • 4 independent countdown timers
  • Adjustable countdown times
  • Synchronization buttons
  • Background operation
Features
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"Chronometer and Countdown HD" turns your iPad into a multi-stopwatch / multi-countdown timer. Useful in sporting competitions or during athletic training to measure athletic performance, in motor racing and wherever it is necessary to use one or more stopwatches / countdown (simultaneously). Features: - 4 independent chronometer (You can use them simultaneously together with the 4 countdowns) - Interruption and resumption of the stopwatches counting (independently one from another) - "Lap" for measuring the arrival of two subsequent events for each chronometer (total of 8 events simultaneously) - 4 countdown (independent and simultaneously) with remaining time adjustable (using the numeric keypad of the device) - synchronization buttons for all stopwatches and for all countdowns - chronometers and countdowns active even when the application is in the background

About

Text Workflow

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
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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/

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Text Workflow at 96% against Chronometer and Countdown HD's 0%. Text Workflow also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.7 vs 2.0). Chronometer and Countdown HD's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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; Chronometer and Countdown HD costs $0.99 up front. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Chronometer and Countdown HD asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Text Workflow holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 178 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Chronometer and Countdown HD's written reviews are positive against 96% of Text Workflow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chronometer and Countdown HD ships an update every 42 months, Text Workflow every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Chronometer and Countdown HD versus Text Workflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChronometer and Countdown HDText Workflow
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (178 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews95.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1178 — better
Update frequencyEvery 42 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGianluca NataliniGeorgios Trigonakis

Customer experience

Chronometer and Countdown HD

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Text Workflow

All ratings179 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive95.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Chronometer and Countdown HD

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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)

In-app purchases

None

Chronometer and Countdown HD

No 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

Questions

Is Chronometer and Countdown HD free?
Chronometer and Countdown HD costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chronometer and Countdown HD or Text Workflow?
Text Workflow is rated higher. Chronometer and Countdown HD averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Text Workflow averages 4.7 from 178 ratings.
Do Chronometer and Countdown HD or Text Workflow have ads?
Neither Chronometer and Countdown HD nor Text Workflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chronometer and Countdown HD or Text Workflow?
Chronometer and Countdown HD ships an update every 42 months, and Text Workflow every 8 days. Most recently, Chronometer and Countdown HD was updated on November 1, 2026 and Text Workflow on November 12, 2026.

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