/Actions

⚙️ Supercharge your shortcuts

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Actions

Additional actions for the Shortcuts app




The app provides lots of powerful extra actions for the Shortcuts app on macOS, iOS, and visionOS. These actions make it significantly easier to create shortcuts.

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Want to run shortcuts directly from the iOS Lock Screen? Check out my Quick Launch app.

And trigger shortcuts on your Mac from your iOS device with my Hyperduck app.

And for high-quality transcription, see my Aiko app.

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Requires minimum macOS 14, iOS 17, or visionOS 1

Older versions (macOS)

Included actions

  • Add to List
  • Apply Capture Date
  • Ask for Text with Timeout
  • Authenticate
  • Blur Images
  • Boolean
  • Calculate with Soulver
  • Choose from List (Extended)
  • Clamp Number
  • Color
  • Combine Lists
  • Combine Videos
  • Convert Coordinates to Location
  • Convert Date to Unix Time
  • Convert Location to Geo URI
  • Convert Unix Time to Date
  • Create Color Image
  • Create Menu Item
  • Create URL
  • Edit URL
  • Filter List
  • Find Music Playlist (iOS-only)
  • Flash Screen (macOS-only)
  • Format Currency
  • Format Date Difference
  • Format Duration
  • Format Number — Compact
  • Format Person Name
  • Generate CSV
  • Generate Haptic Feedback (iOS-only)
  • Generate Random Data
  • Generate Random Text
  • Generate UUID
  • Get Audio Playback Destination (iOS-only)
  • Get Average Color
  • Get Average Color of Image
  • Get Battery State
  • Get Bluetooth Device
  • Get Bluetooth Devices
  • Get Boolean from Input
  • Get Compass Heading (iOS-only)
  • Get Default Printer (macOS-only)
  • Get Device Details (Extended)
  • Get Device Motion Data (iOS-only)
  • Get Device Orientation
  • Get Dominant Colors of Image
  • Get Elevation (iOS-only)
  • Get Emojis
  • Get File Icon (macOS-only)
  • Get File Path
  • Get High-Resolution Timestamp
  • Get Image Location
  • Get Index of List Item
  • Get Map Image of Location
  • Get Modifier Key State (macOS-only)
  • Get Printers (macOS-only)
  • Get Query Item Value from URL
  • Get Query Items from URL
  • Get Query Items from URL as Dictionary
  • Get Random Boolean
  • Get Random Color
  • Get Random Date and Time
  • Get Random Emoticon
  • Get Random Floating-Point Number
  • Get Random Number from Seed
  • Get Related Words
  • Get Running Apps (macOS-only)
  • Get SF Symbol Image
  • Get Title of URL
  • Get Uniform Type Identifier
  • Get Unsplash Image
  • Get User Details
  • Global Variable
  • Hex Encode
  • Hide Shortcuts App
  • Invert Images
  • Is Accessibility Feature On
  • Is Audio Playing (iOS-only)
  • Is Bluetooth On
  • Is Call Active (iOS-only)
  • Is Cellular Data On
  • Is Cellular Low Data Mode On
  • Is Connected to VPN (iOS-only)
  • Is Dark Mode On
  • Is Day
  • Is Device Locked
  • Is Device Moving
  • Is Device Orientation
  • Is Host Reachable
  • Is Low Power Mode On
  • Is Online
  • Is Screen Locked (macOS-only)
  • Is Shaking Device
  • Is Silent Mode On (iOS-only)
  • Is Web Server Reachable
  • Is Wi-Fi On (macOS-only)
  • Merge Dictionaries
  • Open URLs with App (macOS-only)
  • Overwrite File
  • Parse CSV
  • Parse JSON5
  • Play Alert Sound (macOS-only)
  • Pretty Print Dictionaries
  • Remove Duplicate Lines
  • Remove Duplicates from List
  • Remove Emojis
  • Remove Empty Lines
  • Remove from List
  • Remove Non-Printable Characters
  • Reverse Lines
  • Reverse List
  • Round Number to Multiple
  • Sample Color from Screen (macOS-only)
  • Scan Documents (iOS-only)
  • Scan QR Codes in Image
  • Set Creation and Modification Date of File
  • Set Default Printer (macOS-only)
  • Set Image Location
  • Set Uniform Type Identifier
  • Shuffle List
  • Sort List
  • Spell Out Number
  • Transcribe Audio
  • Transform Lists
  • Transform Text (camel case, slugify, transliteration, etc.)
  • Transform Text with JavaScript
  • Trim Whitespace
  • Truncate List
  • Truncate Number
  • Truncate Text
  • Wait Milliseconds
  • Write or Edit Text

Want more shortcut actions?

  • Use the ChatGPT API → AI Actions
  • High-quality transcription (speech to text) in 100 languages → Aiko
  • Trigger shortcuts on your Mac from your iOS device → Hyperduck
  • Show text in menu bar → One Thing
  • Open URLs in a specific browser → Velja
  • Remove tracking parameters from URLs → Velja & Pure Paste
  • Generate images from text with AI locally → Amazing AI
  • Clear clipboard formatting → Pure Paste
  • Get internet speed → Speediness
  • Join video calls → Dato
  • Put text on the iOS Lock Screen → Any Text
  • Get random animated GIF → Jiffy

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Non-App Store version for macOS

A special version for users that cannot access the App Store. It won't receive automatic updates. I will update it here once a year.

Download (3.0.0 · macOS 14+)

FAQ

The actions don't show up in the Shortcuts app

Restart your device.

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I don't have any immediate plans to localize the app.

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