Comparison

LudyActions vs Chats Forever

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

Head to head
About

LudyActions

Enhance your iPhone and iPad automation with over 200 powerful actions for Apple Shortcuts. This free app offers extensive tools for text, math, date, media, and more, all processed on-device for privacy.

Highlights
  • 226+ powerful actions for Apple Shortcuts
  • Text processing and manipulation
  • Math and number operations
  • Advanced date and time formatting
  • JSON parsing and manipulation
  • Extensive media tools (image, PDF, video)
  • Persistent storage and iCloud sync
Features
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LudyActions supercharges Apple Shortcuts with 226 powerful actions to automate anything on your iPhone and iPad. And it's completely FREE! ** NEW IN v1.3: Media Power Update - 25 new media actions! ** COMPLETELY FREE - All 226 actions included at no cost - No subscription required - ever - No in-app purchases needed - Privacy-first: all processing on-device BROWSE ALL ACTIONS - New Actions tab with complete catalog - Search and filter by category - Detailed descriptions and examples - Copy action names to find in Shortcuts TEXT PROCESSING (45 actions) - Case conversion: uppercase, lowercase, title case - Trim, split, join, replace text - Count words, characters, lines - Extract emails, URLs, numbers - Base64 and URL encoding/decoding - MD5, SHA256 hash generation MATH AND NUMBERS (33 actions) - Arithmetic and rounding - Min, max, average, sum - Random number generation - Trigonometry functions - Number formatting DATE AND TIME (31 actions) - Format dates with custom patterns - Add/subtract days, months, years - Calculate days between dates - Get date components - Relative time formatting JSON PROCESSING (14 actions) - Parse and validate JSON - Get values by key path - Create and modify structures LIST OPERATIONS (15 actions) - Sort, reverse, shuffle - Get first/last/random item - Filter and find items MEDIA TOOLS (54 actions) - Image resize, crop, rotate, flip, overlay - Image filters, watermark, format conversion - PDF text extraction, merge, split, page count - Video trimming, thumbnails, metadata - Audio metadata extraction - OCR text recognition PERSISTENT STORAGE (7 actions) - Store values across shortcut runs - iCloud sync across devices - Perfect for counters and preferences HTTP AND NETWORKING (6 actions) - GET, POST, PUT, DELETE requests - URL building and encoding CLOUDKIT SYNC (7 actions) - Save/fetch data to iCloud - Query cloud records NOTION INTEGRATION (5 actions) - Search and update pages - Add database rows Download LudyActions and unlock the full potential of Apple Shortcuts - completely FREE! Privacy Policy: https://ludy.app/privacy

About

Chats Forever

Preserve your most meaningful conversations by importing them into a personal digital archive. Relive chats with multimedia, organize them into folders, and even protect sensitive ones with a PIN. The app processes everything locally, ensuring your data remains private.

Highlights
  • Import and preserve conversations
  • Multimedia playback (photos, GIFs, voice messages)
  • Organize chats into folders
  • PIN protection for private folders
  • Re-import to add new messages
  • Local processing for privacy
  • Optional PDF export
Features
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Chats Forever turns your favorite conversations into a beautiful personal archive. Keep the chats that matter most — conversations with loved ones, family, friends, or anyone whose messages you never want to lose. Import a conversation and relive it just as a real chat, complete with photos, animated GIFs, voice messages and other shared memories. Tap photos to view them full screen, play voice messages directly inside the conversation and enjoy animated GIFs as they were meant to be seen. Your archive can keep growing too. Export the same conversation again later and import it into Chats Forever. New messages are automatically added to your existing chat, so you don’t have to start over. Features include: • Import and preserve your favorite conversations • Photos displayed directly inside the chat • Tap photos to view them full screen • Animated GIF playback • Play voice messages inside the conversation • Add missing videos manually when they were not included in the original chat export • Re-import a conversation later to add new messages • Choose different themes for your chats • Use a photo from your conversation as the cover • Add fun animated pop-ups with special memories or notes • Organize conversations into folders • Protect private folders with a PIN • Export your saved conversations again • Optional PDF export with photos and statistics • Everything is processed locally on your device • No tracking • No analytics • No advertising Some messaging apps do not include videos when exporting a conversation. Chats Forever cannot change what is included in the original export, but when a missing video is detected you can add your saved video manually afterwards. Your conversations stay yours. Chats Forever does not upload your imported chats, photos or files to its own servers. One simple purchase. No subscription. No ads. Chats Forever — because some conversations are worth keeping forever.

Screenshots

LudyActions4 screens
Chats Forever4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LudyActions at Free against Chats Forever's $1.99. LudyActions also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Chats Forever's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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

LudyActions is free to download; Chats Forever costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LudyActions ships an update every 9 days, Chats Forever every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
LudyActions versus Chats Forever: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLudyActionsChats Forever
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.2 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLudy Ankas, LLCAhmed Khelifi

Customer experience

LudyActions

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Chats Forever

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

LudyActions

No in-app purchases

None

Chats Forever

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LudyActions free?
LudyActions is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chats Forever free?
Chats Forever costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do LudyActions or Chats Forever have ads?
Neither LudyActions nor Chats Forever shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LudyActions or Chats Forever?
LudyActions ships an update every 9 days, and Chats Forever every 2 days. Most recently, LudyActions was updated on October 31, 2026 and Chats Forever on October 31, 2026.

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