Scriptable Reviews

this app is by far one of the best apps I’ve ever downloaded. As a website developer, using JavaScript to program iOS shortcuts is like a dream come true. With the no ads and no premium subscription, it’s an app that I would definitely recommend to anyone with a background in programming.

With that being said, I do have a few bugs and feature requests for the developer. The features include:
- Word wrap toggle: on iPhone, it’s a pain to have to enter landscape mode just to make sure all the indentations are as they should be. A word wrap toggle would be a big help.
- Theme choices: we should have the option to use a different theme for light/dark mode (for example: one dark pro, etc)
- TypeScript support: this is pretty self-explanatory

And the bug:
- Accessing Contact and ContactsContainer in a widget results in a blank widget. However, this does seem to work if you preview the widget in-app using present.

I’ve been meaning to try this app for a long time, and finally gave it a spin today. It’s SO MUCH better than using Shortcuts’ scripting language!

Not only did I get my “upcoming birthdays” script working the way that I wanted it to, I was able to fix a date range bug in JS that I couldn’t figure out how to do in Shortcuts. Plus, as a bonus, now I’ve got a widget using my script that works with parameters.

All this after noodling around for just part of the afternoon. Thanks so much for this app.

There’s a few quirks here and there, but they’re only graphical, so your content is all safe and sound (from my experience so far). The documentation is 10/10, and the example scripts are wonderful for new comers with all the comments!
More features would be awesome, so I look forward to what is up next for Scriptable.

I just tipped the dev a caffe latte (the best in-app purchase I’ve ever made), but I wish I could give them a handshake for an app well done 🤝

This is an impressive app in the sense that it allows the user to perform “native” scripting on the iPhone to create files, present information using native iOS functions. The documentation for the functions such as “Alert” lacks example “stubs” and leaves out similar information a beginner needs. The online forum helps a great deal in filling some of the gaps. The included example scripts provide helpful information as well.

If you’re on the fence about trying it, try it. You don’t even need to know JavaScript because you can get other people’s scripts, but learning it is easy and it may even be the thing to teach you JavaScript

This is an awesome concept. Being able to write automation scripts for your mobile devices, on your mobile devices. It’s awesome and wonderful and as a Javascript developer, two thumbs ups. I just got three recommendations for you, to bump this from a 4 star to a 5 star application:

1. Documentation I don’t think should be a secondary window. If you can make it a sidebar, that would be huge.

2. Maybe include some common JS documentation too.

3. This is probably asking for too much, but automation for our automation app. It gets really annoying writing out every word so if the this app app could auto add ending curly braces, etc.

If these three things were to be implemented, heck, I’d buy you as much coffee as you’d like :)

This is probably the best automation app you could install. I use it more than Shortcuts, even. I mean, you can customize your device with JavaScript? How cool is that?
this app has a ton of nice features: A clean UI (settings, dark mode, log), extensive documentation, and a ton of custom APIs written just for iOS.
With Apple’s recent iOS/IPadOS 14 update came the ability to create widgets with Simon’s beautiful ListWidget() api. No other app that I know of can do that.

Those were the Pros, and the Cons are.... well... hmm... well, guess there are no cons. 🤷‍♂️

Also, since this app is free, there is really no reason not to download it. So go download it!

I wish I had more use-cases to use this! Maybe add a Marketplace or similar feature where people can add their scripts and you can install scripts from others. (Maybe also and .env variable feature that reusable scripts can get secret values that users don‘t want to share)

🎉 Keep it up! Amazing stuff!

This is an incredibly well put together and well thought out app that is a virtual replacement for the Shortcuts app, assuming you know JavaScript.

One thing I can’t seem to make it do is behave as an input/output step in the actual Shortcuts app. It might be nice to offer a script with a return value as a suggestion there.

I've had a blast making scripts and widgets to help myself and others improve the ways you can use your iPhone :)

So much can be done with Scriptable. I just wish you could hide the name tag on widgets. Other widget apps are starting to do it now, so we know it’s more than possible. Those names ruin the look of the home screen.

Other than that such a great and powerful app.

Amazing app and worked great. But I just noticed that Scriptable does not work anymore since I updated to iOS 14.6 (RC). I know I’m using beta program at my own risk. Anyway you guys, the developers can fix this? Thank you

Wonderful App,

but, I opened Scriptable , and noticed one of my saved script was one..

*In other words, Scriptable automatically deletes scripts it chooses to (Randomly, or selected by the developer).

Also, Apple App Store and the developer, take note of this, Scriptable “this app” does not appear under the cellular data section, therefore it means one cannot put off the cellular data for Scriptable .. noting the face that The Apple iPhone does not have 100%(total) control over Scriptable ..

This is wrong, a very massive bug, please this needs to be fixed..

Scriptable has too much access to the apple iPhone. Please developers fix this..

I am absolutely amazed at what I can get done with Scriptable on iOS. Thanks to this app, I now have my own widget for my weather station before the station’s app developer has created one!

Scriptable changes the ability to extend iOS in crazy ways. Can’t wait to see what other people do with it. The developer should charge something to keep development going.

Amazing, if you are experienced in JavaScript, then download Scriptable NOW. Scriptable is so useful to create widgets that tell you your elevation, where you are, the current weather, I could go on and on!! JavaScript developers, GET Scriptable!!

this is a nice little app and it's amazing that Scriptable developer donated it.

i gave it 4 stars since my use cases dont necessarily line up all the the time with the capabilities of Scriptable . I dont know if we can contribute on github to future versions.

so it's at least a good starting poimt.

For power users Scriptable enables your phone to do so much more than it could out of the box. Deserves 10 stars.

Good app for learning JS. Would like to see some examples in the documentation to further understand syntax requirements. A lot of work went into the development of Scriptable and probably has a way to go to be fully functional as a fully capable scripting app. I look forward to the next release.

Love the platform provided by Scriptable ! One suggestion: Could you please add support for M1 Mac so the widgets can also be used on Mac? Like some other iOS apps.

Great app; but the built in web browser has an issue: Web content is displayed under the notch and status bar. I have a this app action that sometimes requires me to view a web page (to log in and out) and the site's menus are at the top. It's impossible to use the menu at the top. I've only had partial success rotating my phone to access the menu. Please fix! 🙏

After a minor iOS update I can use it and files actually show up in the Scripts pane. :)

Scriptable is fantastic. Please continue to keep it largely in the state its in — not giving in to any kind of over-monetization or deep change. You (developer) will absolutely and certainly have a community of strong supporters, which pays itself in dividends.