Actions

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.

Restart your device if the actions do not show up in the Shortcuts app. Also try setting a different device language and then back.

If you have any questions about how to use the different actions or for what, try asking the Actions GPT bot. And if you want to feed your own AI, here is the source data.

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
Download File
Edit URL
Encrypt File
Encrypt Text
Filter List
Find Music Playlist ^(iOS-only)
Flash Screen ^(macOS-only)
Format Currency
Format Date Difference
Format Duration
Format Number as Ordinal
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 / Set 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 Capture Date / Set Image Capture Date
Get Image Location / Set Image Location
Get Index of List Item
Get Map Image of Location
Get Modifier Key State ^(macOS-only)
Get Paragraphs from Text
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 Sentences from Text
Get SF Symbol Image
Get Title of URL
Get Uniform Type Identifier / Set Uniform Type Identifier
Get User Details
Get Values Using JSONPath
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 Camera On ^(macOS-only)
Is Cellular Data On
Is Cellular Low Data Mode On
Is Conforming to Uniform Type Identifier
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 Microphone On ^(macOS-only)
Is Online
Is Screen Locked ^(macOS-only)
Is Shaking Device
Is Silent Mode On ^(iOS-only)
Is Time
Is Time In Range
Is Web Server Reachable
Is Wi-Fi On ^(macOS-only)
Join Wi-Fi ^(iOS-only)
Merge Dictionaries
Named Clipboard ^(macOS-only)
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
Show Notification
Shuffle List
Sort List
Sort Months
Spell Out Number
Toggle Boolean
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

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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
Get clipboard items → Pasteboard Viewer
Preview app icons → Icon Preview
Use the ChatGPT API, Ollama, Groq → AI Actions

Impossible actions

Some common actions requests that are not possible:

Orientation lock status
Flashlight status
Ambient sensor info
Flight mode status
Hotspot status
Hotspot connect/disconnect
CarPlay connection status

Anything related to changing system features/settings or interacting with other apps is generally not possible.

For these, I recommend sending a feature request to Apple.

Frequently Asked Questions

I have a feature request, bug report, or some feedback

Click the feedback button in the app or send it here.

The actions don’t show up in the Shortcuts app

This is caused by a iOS/macOS bug.

Some things you could try:

Restart your device.
Change the device language to something else and back.
Add this shortcut, run it once, and see if the actions show up in the Shortcuts app after that.

I get a “errorDomain error 2” error when running an action

Same solution as above.

Why is this free without ads?

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How can I prevent the app from being offloaded when I have “app offloading” enabled on iOS?

iOS does not have a way to prevent individual apps from being offloaded (even though it should!) and there is no way for apps to tell iOS not to offload them. I recommend sending feedback to Apple about this. You could try this workaround.

More FAQs…

Older versions

2.10.0 for macOS 13+
1.13.1 for macOS 12+

Non-App Store Version

A special macOS 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+)