Comparison

Live Shortcut vs Canopy Workspaces

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

Head to head
About

Live Shortcut

Easily integrate your existing automations with Live Activities. Display reminders and important information on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island to ensure you never miss a thing.

Highlights
  • Integrate automations with Live Activities
  • Display reminders on Lock Screen
  • Utilize Dynamic Island for notifications
  • Easy setup for existing shortcuts
  • Customizable display options
Features
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Turn your shortcuts into Live Activities on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Live Shortcut puts the information from your automations where you can see it. Create a quick note in the app, or use Apple Shortcuts to display text from your own workflows. YOUR SHORTCUTS, AT A GLANCE Keep a reminder in sight, show a workflow result, or display a message when an automation runs. BUILT AROUND YOUR ROUTINE Choose what appears and when using your own Shortcuts automations. For example, display a garage-door reminder after your shortcut checks whether the door is open. MAKE IT YOURS Personalize your Live Activities with icons and color themes. Support for triggering another shortcut helps connect the next step in your workflow. MORE WITH PREMIUM Unlock additional customization, custom and built-in icons, multiple Live Activities, and control over which activities to end using identifiers. Create your first Live Activity and put your shortcuts in sight. Requires iOS 16.4 or later. Dynamic Island requires a compatible iPhone. Live Activity duration and visibility are managed by iOS. Some features require Premium. Privacy: https://andrewbfang.com/privacyPolicy.html Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Canopy Workspaces

Features
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Workspaces and smart bookmarks, built for Safari. Safari bookmarks always open a new tab. After a day of work, that can mean multiple copies of the same inbox, dashboard, or documentation, with no idea which one you were actually using. Canopy looks for the tab you already have open. Click a pinned page and it first looks for an existing tab, even if it's in another Safari window. If it finds one, it brings it to the front. Only when no matching tab exists does it open a new one. Your Branches, folders, pinned pages, and preferences are synchronized through your private iCloud account, so everything is available wherever you use Safari. BRANCHES Branches are your workspaces. Create one for Work, Home, Research, Clients, Travel, or anything else that fits the way you browse. Within each Branch, organize your pinned pages into folders that can be displayed as either a traditional list or a grid of icons. Pin the page you're currently viewing with a single click as either an exact page or an entire website. FLEXIBLE MATCHING Every pinned page can match in one of three ways: โ€ข Page - Match only this exact URL. โ€ข Page (Ignore Query) - Ignore URL query parameters so tracking links and document IDs still match. โ€ข Site - Match any page on the same domain. One pinned page can represent your inbox, dashboard, or favourite website. MAKE IT YOURS Customize Canopy to match the way you work. โ€ข List or icon view for every folder โ€ข Drag and drop to organize folders and pinned pages โ€ข Adjustable panel width, height, and icon size โ€ข Custom icons for any pinned page โ€ข Export and import your entire library PRIVATE BY DESIGN Canopy doesn't require an account, collect analytics, or store your data on its own servers. Your Branches, folders, pinned pages, preferences, and custom icons live in your own iCloud, not on a Canopy server. Website icons are downloaded directly from the websites you pin, never through a third-party service. ONE-TIME SETUP Safari only allows extensions to access the URLs of tabs on websites you've granted permission for. To find existing tabs instead of opening duplicates, Canopy requires "Always Allow on Every Website." This allows Canopy to compare the URLs of your open tabs with your pinned pages and switch to the existing tab when there's a match. URL matching happens locally on your device. Canopy never uploads your browsing data to its own servers because it doesn't have any.

Screenshots

Live Shortcut4 screens
Canopy Workspaces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Canopy Workspaces at none against Live Shortcut's 2. Canopy Workspaces also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Live Shortcut sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per year. Canopy Workspaces asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Live Shortcut versus Canopy Workspaces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive ShortcutCanopy Workspaces
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews70.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew FangAlon Sabi

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Live Shortcut

Subscriptions1
  • Premium (Yearly)$0.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$6.99
None

Canopy Workspaces

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Live Shortcut free?
Live Shortcut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Canopy Workspaces free?
Canopy Workspaces is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Live Shortcut or Canopy Workspaces have ads?
Live Shortcut shows ads; Canopy Workspaces does not.

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