FindText vs AI Actions for Shortcuts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FindText
Easily find and replace text within your documents. Supports case sensitivity, regular expressions, and replacing all occurrences with a new phrase.
- Paste text from clipboard
- Find and Replace functions
- Case sensitive or insensitive search
- Regular expression support
- Replace all occurrences
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Find and replace text: 1. Enter or Paste your text from the clipboard into the TextView 2. You can choose Find or Replace function 3. Enter the word or phrase you want to replace in Find what. 4. Enter your new text in Replace with. 5. Replace All to change all occurrences of the word or phrase. To specify only upper or lowercase in your search, select Matching Case or Ignoring Case. For advanced users, we've also added the ability to find patterns using a regular expression. Click the Search button in the search field to see the basic regular expressions or enter the regular expression that you want to replace in Find what.
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: AI Actions for Shortcuts at 4.6 against FindText's 3.7. AI Actions for Shortcuts also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (27 vs 3). FindText's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 27.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. FindText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AI Actions for Shortcuts asks for nothing beyond the download.
AI Actions for Shortcuts holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AI Actions for Shortcuts has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of FindText's written reviews are positive against 77% of AI Actions for Shortcuts's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | FindText | AI Actions for Shortcuts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 77.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thach Nguyen Trong | Sindre Sorhus |
Customer experience
FindText
AI Actions for Shortcuts
In-app purchases
FindText
- Premium Version$3.99
AI Actions for Shortcuts
No in-app purchases
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