Comparison

Transloader 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

Transloader

Initiate downloads on your Macs remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or other Macs. Assign links for immediate download or save them for later. The app supports logins for protected files and allows custom actions for downloaded files or links.

Highlights
  • Initiate remote Mac downloads
  • Login to download protected files
  • Custom link and file actions on Mac
  • Save links for later assignment
  • Share extension for browsers
Features
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With Transloader, you can initiate downloads on any and all of your Macs - remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or other Macs. Say you're browsing on your iPhone and come across a Mac app demo you'd like to give a try. Now, you could fumble for an app to save that link in for later, and hope to remember to download it afterwards. Or you can use Transloader, and assign that link for download to a Mac right away - no need for fumbling, or remembering. Even better, when you return to your Mac, the file will be ready for you. Main Features: - Initiate downloads on a remote Mac Wether you're on another Mac, an iPhone or an iPad, you can enter the link into the app on your device and assign it to a specific Mac for download. Or use the app's Share extension to start downloads right from within your browser. - Login to Download If a file requires a login on the website before it can be downloaded, Transloader lets you do that now. You can log in to websites at any time, from any device. - Link- and File Actions on Mac Link Actions tell Transloader on Mac which app or Automator workflow should open specific links (based on criteria like host or URL scheme), instead of downloading them in Transloader. For example, you can open ftp links with the ftp app of choice. A File Action lets Transloader on Mac open a file after its downloaded with an app or Automator workflow, based on criteria like file type/extension, or the link's host. For example, unzip zip files right away after they're downloaded, or organize downloaded images in folders. - Save links for later If your desired Mac is not yet registered with Transloader, or you'd just like to wait before you initiate the download of a link on a Mac, you can save it, and assign the link to a Mac for download later. Requirements: - The Mac app, available for purchase on the Mac App Store - A (free) iCloud account Here's what customers say about Transloader: "Extremely useful." - dcdixon, US App Store "As easy as it should be with Apple products!" - piotrekbielaska, Polish App Store "I'd never be able to live without it." - Navrik1323, UK App Store Here's what the press says about Transloader: "It works great and you should already be clicking the Purchase button." - Mikhail Madnani, beautifulpixels.com "Transloader is very helpful and saves me a lot of time." - macreview.com "Transloader is a simple, easy-to-use app and I've found it to be so useful." - Dan Frakes, macworld.com For further information, please visit Transloader's website. If you have any feedback or questions, please do not hesitate to write me by mail at support@eternalstorms.at, or on twitter at @TransloaderApp or @eternalstorms. Thank you.

About

Text Workflow

Effortlessly clean, convert, and format text with over 50 actions. Save repetitive steps as workflows for one-tap execution. Ideal for tidying up text from various sources like PDFs, spreadsheets, and web pages.

Highlights
  • 50+ text manipulation actions
  • Save and run custom workflows
  • Clean AI-generated text
  • Format text from PDFs and web
  • Convert between data formats (JSON, CSV, Markdown)
  • Integrates with Shortcuts
  • Syncs workflows across devices
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

Transloader4 screens
Text Workflow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Transloader at none against Text Workflow's 3. Text Workflow's advantage is review sentiment (95% vs 73%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Transloader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Transloader against 4.7 for Text Workflow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Workflow has 178 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Transloader's written reviews are positive against 95% of Text Workflow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Transloader ships an update every 2 months, Text Workflow fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Transloader versus Text Workflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTransloaderText Workflow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (16 ratings)4.7 (178 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.9% of reviews95.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16178 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthias Gansrigler-HradGeorgios Trigonakis

Customer experience

Transloader

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews85 reviews
Positive72.9%
Neutral4.7%
Negative22.4%

Text Workflow

All ratings178 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative0.0%

User reviews

Transloader

From 16 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast download speeds
  • 💡 Seamless integration with Mac
  • 📧 Responsive developer
  • 🌐 Works across devices (iOS/Mac)

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes
  • ❌ Some links not downloaded
  • ⏳ Slow download sync
  • 📉 Large file download issues
  • 🤔 Lack of clear instructions

Text Workflow

From 178 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

Transloader

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Crashing on older iPhones
  • Downloads dropped/not resumed
  • Links not downloaded (e.g., subtitles)
  • Errors trying to download
  • Doesn't work with Dropbox links
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  • Sync issues
  • Garbage text when sending URLs
  • Cannot delete stuck files

Requested features

9 requests
  • Website scraper for file discovery
  • Account manager for specific sites
  • Direct download to NAS
  • iOS 13 compatibility
  • Remote download via cellular network
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  • PC/Windows support
  • Notification for download completion
  • Torrent support
  • Menu bar integration for Mac app

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
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  • 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

Transloader

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 Transloader free?
Transloader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Workflow free?
Text Workflow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Transloader or Text Workflow?
Text Workflow is rated higher. Transloader averages 4.6 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Text Workflow averages 4.7 from 178 ratings.
Do Transloader or Text Workflow have ads?
Neither Transloader nor Text Workflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Transloader or Text Workflow?
Transloader ships an update every 2 months, and Text Workflow fortnightly. Most recently, Transloader was updated on November 1, 2026 and Text Workflow on November 7, 2026.

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