Scriptable
Reviews and Complaints

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

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

so it's at least a good starting poimt.

Really appreciate this app!
But can you tell me what can I do with this :

Shortcuts
Automation failed
"When any of 2 apps are opened"
encountered an error: The operation
couldn't be completed.
(INCExtensionErrorDomain error 1307.)

It keeps pushing when I run the process. But the function works well .

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.

Great app; but the built in web browser has an issue: Web content is displayed under the notch and status bar. I have a scriptable 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!

The app finally makes Shortcuts not a toy.

However, as of iOS 14, some things are more complicated than they need to be. Stability is lacking still. But the progress has been incredible.

Apple needs to implement their own integration tools in Shortcuts for this app to be able to pass data back and forth freely.

As for this app, I’d only complain about the Documentation view. I think, it’s poorly presented.

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 this app.

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

I tried using the app to write some JavaScript. In less than 24 hours the app has frozen multiple times. None of the controls work. I have to force quit and restart.

It happens after hitting the play button to run my code. I don’t have an infinite loop, but sometimes there are bugs that I enter (e.g. I forget to add const or let to a variable). The app doesn’t complain, but freezes.

I like the layout and the functionality of the app, just wish it didn’t freeze.

I’ve been meaning to try Scriptable 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 Scriptable.

Wonderful App,

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

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

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

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

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

Theirs is truly no app that can compare to the sheer number of ways to interact with iOS on Scriptable. I was skeptical at first with this app because theirs so many useless apps for programing on the App Store and this one is 1000% better than the best I’ve seen. Seriously this app doesn’t cost a dime and I’ve been using it for the past couple of days and not ONE ad has opened, its amazing! Not to mention the possibilities with this app you can create timed notifications check sites. And best of all you can basically add Siri functions to your phone. Nothing else truly compares to this app if I could I would give it more than 5 stars.

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?
Scriptable 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 Scriptable is free, there is really no reason not to download it. So go download it!

My script has not been working post iOS 13

let addrs = "my work address here" //address
let name = "Work"
let cal = await Calendar.forEventsByTitle(name)
let events = await CalendarEvent.between(new Date(2019,01,01), new Date(2021,01,01),[cal]) // fetch data until 2024
let nolocation = events.filter(ev =>ev.location == "" && ev.isAllDay == false) // only use events that have no location and is not all day
for (event of nolocation){
event.location = "addrs"
let sd = event.startDate.toLocaleTimeString('en-US', {hour:"2-digit",minute:"2-digit"})
let ed = event.endDate.toLocaleTimeString('en-US', {hour:"2-digit",minute:"2-digit"})
event.title = "" + sd + " to " + ed
event.save()
}

The options I had to play videos on loop and at different speeds aren’t there anymore. When the video is over I have to keep pressing play to start it over again. Now it’s just a black backround with nothing but the video playing and if I skip forward or backwards, it takes the video out of the frame and into PiP. Another thing; when I put the YouTube video into PiP, when scriptable opens it up it starts the back from the beginning again and not from where it was playing when I chose to send the video to scriptable to watch in PiP. Get me? I don’t know who else is experiencing this but I’am, on my iPhone. Hopefully you send an update soon that fixes all of this. I appreciate your work and this app. It helps.

This app is amazing! It’s like Shortcuts (formerly Workflow) for people who would rather write code than drag boxes (this is not a criticism of Shortcuts; different people do things differently). If you like Pythonista but not Python, this might be the app for you. Right out of the gate the dev includes a great and powerful set of APIs that let you access iOS frameworks, interact with the user or the web, display output, etc. They’ve even included a graphics context! I can’t wait to see what they add in future releases. My one suggestion at this point would be to include some basic documentation on the app itself. The API docs are great and the sample code is helpful but some basic info on how to use the app would be appreciated. It’s kind of embarrassing, but it actually took me a while to figure out that the scripting language was JavaScript :-).

Scriptable 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.

This app was excellent before recent two updates now it not working properly I’ve to switch twice everytime Youtube pip mode otherwise it keeps loading. Please fix it

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