Comparison

C 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

C

Automatically track time spent at predefined locations like work or school. The app uses geofencing to log your entries and exits, providing daily, monthly, and yearly summaries. You can also manually start/stop tracking, edit entries, and export your data.

Highlights
  • Automatic time registration at places
  • Arrival/departure notifications
  • Manual start/stop counting
  • Edit recorded times
  • Export time data
  • Post time to social media
Features
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Your time is precious. C-Time shows you where it really goes - automatically. How many hours did you actually work this month? How often did you make it to the gym? C-Time answers these questions without you lifting a finger: define your places once, and the app clocks you in when you arrive and out when you leave. No buttons to press, no timers to forget, no extra battery drain - it uses Apple's geofence technology, not GPS. Open the app and your numbers are just there: today, this week, this month, this year - clean statistics for every place, automatically backed up to iCloud. WHAT C-TIME DOES FOR YOU • clocks you in and out automatically at your places - work, gym, wherever • shows the running time live on the lock screen, in the Dynamic Island and on Apple Watch • history per day, month and year with clear charts • set a daily goal per place and see today's over/under at a glance - turns green when you reach it • a Home & Lock Screen widget with your goal ring - progress at a glance • add a note to any check-in - shown in history, in the CSV export and on the main screen • automatic daily break deduction per place - e.g. 30 min once a day passes 4 hours (off by default) • exports a beautiful PDF report - perfect for time sheets and invoices (also CSV / e-mail) • notifies you on arrival and departure, per place if you like • manual clock in/out and editing whenever you need it • automatic iCloud backup, plus backup to a file and restore • speaks English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese Set it up in one minute. Forget it. Know your hours. TIPS □ The automatic mode runs at its best when Wi-Fi is enabled. □ C-Time uses the same technology (geofence) as Apple's "Reminders" app. ================================================ What customers have said about C-Time: ================================================ △ Incredible app. I always forget to clock my time. With this app, its automagically handled. Love it! △ Pretty neat. I like this app a lot. It is really helping me track my work time without me having to remember to enter anything. △ Many uses. Now I dont have to remember what day/time Im called in to work on the off hours. Works great. Highly recommend. △ Works Great. Flawless....works great, and Geofencing is spot on! △ Very smart app. This app is one of the best I used. Its smart, useful, works great, & I highly Recommend it :) △ Love the idea behind this app! Can track how much time at work, girlfriends, favorite bar, volunteering... Great idea! △ Very user friendly. I like the instructions to get started. △ Amazing App! A perfect tool for business, hobby or private "actions". I can recommend this App for everybody. △ Perfect app. No need anymore to bother with tables to fill manually the hours in. All needed time stamps are logged automatically!! △ Perfect app. Simple to use and helpful to have the overview where time was spent. Congratulations! △ Great App to know where you spend your time. Works as advertised. Does NOT drain your batteries as it uses the same geofence mechanism also used by iOS for reminders and such. △ Great App!! I use it now for 2 weeks and its quite impressing to see where I spend my time. Its really simple to use. Great job. △ Very nice. A very useful and easy to use application. Good job! △ This app is really cool. It helps me see how much time I spend in school. It is so useful. Very good app. △ Très bonne application. Très pratique et fonctionne à merveille. On peut regretter labsence de calcul dheure (heure journalière, pause de midi,...) mais cette application fait ce quelle prêtant et de manière très fiable. △ Great. Funciona bem e tem boas funcionalidades. Recomendo. △ 매우 좋아요. 자동 체크인 체크아웃 해주고, 자신의 동선 자동 관리가능하며 개인적으로 장소들을 관리할 수 있다는 점이 아주 마음에 듭니다. 앞으로 더 기대되네요

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 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/

Screenshots

C4 screens
Text Workflow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Text Workflow at Free against C's $9.99. Text Workflow also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (95% vs 77%). C's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On update cadence 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

Text Workflow is free to download; C costs $9.99 up front. Text Workflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. C asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Text Workflow holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 176 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of C's written reviews are positive against 95% of Text Workflow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

C ships an update every 5 weeks, Text Workflow monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
C versus Text Workflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCText Workflow
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (39 ratings)4.8 (176 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.7% of reviews95.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings39176 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSiegwareGeorgios Trigonakis

Customer experience

C

All ratings39 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral5.1%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews86 reviews
Positive76.7%
Neutral10.5%
Negative12.8%

Text Workflow

All ratings176 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral3.4%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative0.0%

User reviews

C

From 39 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Automatic time tracking
  • 💡 Useful for salaried employees
  • ✅ Accurate location logging
  • ⏱️ Helps reconstruct time reports
  • 🗺️ Tracks time at various locations

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Auto clock-in/out issues
  • 📍 Geofence radius too large
  • 🗺️ Difficulty adding new locations
  • 📱 UI outdated/not optimized
  • ❓ No privacy details provided

Text Workflow

From 176 App Store ratings

What we love

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

Room to improve

  • 🐛 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

Bugs and requests

C

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Automatic clock-in/out not triggering
  • Locations not registering after iOS update
  • Geofencing issues with iOS 15
  • App switching continuously between two places
  • Cannot add a name to a place
Show 5 more
  • Auto clock-in/out does not work
  • Search doesn't work in map view
  • Cannot send feedback
  • Geofence radius too large, marking check-ins when just passing by
  • App checks in when 5km away from home

Requested features

17 requests
  • Fix automatic clock-in/out bug
  • Improve location accuracy/radius control
  • Link to Apple/Google Maps for address input
  • Add client/job/project tracking
  • Add notes/comments field
Show 12 more
  • Add mileage tracker
  • Add Apple Watch complication
  • Allow display of hours and minutes (HH:mm)
  • Exclude specific times for specific locations
  • Add 3D touch support
  • Improve UI and support new iOS display ratios
  • Allow sending feedback
  • Add ability to export or email histories
  • Constant GPS monitoring with training mode
  • Allow drawing non-circular geofences
  • Support elevation for floor changes
  • Prompt user if forgot to Clock Out

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

C

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 C free?
C costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, C or Text Workflow?
Text Workflow is rated higher. C averages 4.4 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Text Workflow averages 4.8 from 176 ratings.
Do C or Text Workflow have ads?
Neither C nor Text Workflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, C or Text Workflow?
C ships an update every 5 weeks, and Text Workflow monthly. Most recently, C was updated on October 13, 2026 and Text Workflow on October 10, 2026.

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