Comparison

Shortcuty vs Semper

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

Head to head
About

Shortcuty

Explore and share custom automations for your iPhone. Discover trending shortcuts, build your own, and connect with a community of creators. Enhance your device's productivity with user-generated solutions.

Highlights
  • Discover user-created shortcuts
  • Browse trending automations
  • Build and share your own shortcuts
  • Connect with creators
  • Detailed shortcut information
  • Version tracking and updates
Features
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Find useful shortcuts. Share what you create. Shortcuty helps you discover shortcuts for Apple’s Shortcuts app, explore how they work, and connect with the people who make them. DISCOVER YOUR NEXT SHORTCUT • Browse trending, popular, and recently added shortcuts. • Explore categories or search for what you want to do. • Read descriptions, view previews, and check version notes before downloading. SHARE YOUR WORK • Publish your own shortcuts for others to discover. • Release updates and explain what changed. • Get feedback through likes and comments. FOLLOW CREATORS • Follow creators whose work you enjoy. • Explore their shortcuts and join the conversation. TOOLS FOR YOUR SHORTCUTS • View shortcut logs. • Manage stored variables. • Manage provider API keys used by your shortcuts. Whether you’re exploring your first automation or sharing something you built, find your next idea on Shortcuty. Shortcuty is an independent community and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Semper

This app helps manage recurring tasks with separate daily, weekly, and monthly lists that automatically reset. It offers optional streaks and simple reminders without gamification or guilt.

Highlights
  • Three distinct recurring task lists
  • Automatic list resetting
  • Count-based item tracking
  • Optional streak tracking
  • Customizable daily reminders
  • Light and dark mode support
  • Offline data storage
Features
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Semper is a checklist for the things you do again and again — daily, weekly, and monthly — that clears itself, so you never have to rebuild it. Most to-do apps are built for one-off tasks. You add something, you do it, it disappears. But the things that actually hold a life together aren't one-offs. Take the medication. Water the plants. Call your parents. Change the sheets. Those come back, and rebuilding the same list every morning is its own small chore. Semper keeps three standing lists — Daily, Weekly, Monthly. Clear them at your own pace. When the period turns over, the list is simply fresh again. There's no reset button and nothing to re-add. WHAT'S INSIDE • Three lists, each on its own natural cycle • Count-based items for the things you want to do a few times a week, whenever it fits • Optional streaks — off unless you want them, and quiet when you do • Simple daily reminders you control • Light and dark, following your system • Your items and history stay on your device — no account, no sign-up CALM BY DESIGN Semper doesn't gamify, guilt-trip, or celebrate at you. No badges, no confetti, no red numbers climbing on the icon. Miss a day and nothing scolds you — the list is just there tomorrow, the way it always is. PRICING Semper is free to use for three months. After that, one payment unlocks it for good — no subscription. Your items and history remain visible either way. A single purchase covers every device on your Apple ID and supports Family Sharing.

Screenshots

Shortcuty3 screens
Semper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Shortcuty at weekly against Semper's every 3 weeks. Shortcuty also leads on ratings volume (40 vs 2). Semper's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Shortcuty sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Semper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shortcuty against 5.0 for Semper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shortcuty has 40 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Shortcuty's written reviews are positive against 100% of Semper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shortcuty ships an update weekly, Semper every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Shortcuty versus Semper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShortcutySemper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (40 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings40 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB55 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperArthur HoeferArchon Development

Customer experience

Shortcuty

All ratings39 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

Semper

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Shortcuty

Subscriptions1
  • AdFree Monthly$0.991 Month
One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Generous Tip$9.99
1 purchases

Semper

One-time1
  • Semper Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Shortcuty free?
Shortcuty is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Semper free?
Semper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shortcuty or Semper?
Semper is rated higher. Shortcuty averages 5.0 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Semper averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Shortcuty or Semper have ads?
Neither Shortcuty nor Semper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shortcuty or Semper?
Shortcuty ships an update weekly, and Semper every 3 weeks. Most recently, Shortcuty was updated on October 30, 2026 and Semper on November 5, 2026.

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