Alternatives to Workflow
iOS automation, became Apple Shortcuts
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iOS automation, became Apple Shortcuts. Workflow has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.
iOS users who wanted to automate repetitive tasks on their phone — power users and tinkerers rather than professional developers, since it required no coding.
A visual, drag-and-drop editor for chaining together 'actions' (e.g., resize an image, get text from a webpage, create a calendar event) into a custom multi-step workflow. It could pull in data from other apps, and included a gallery of pre-built workflows to use or customize. Finished workflows could be launched from the iOS share sheet, saved as a home screen icon, or run from a Today widget.
Users dragged actions into an ordered sequence, with each action's output feeding into the next; the assembled workflow was then saved and triggered on demand from the share sheet, a home screen icon, or a widget.
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Yes. IFTTT, Make and Node-RED have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
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