Scriptable

Brilliant clear documentation and just a really polished product. It has made my shortcuts so much easier to write and debug as well as plugging gaps in the capabilities. It does require a bit of Javascript knowledge (particularly async callbacks) but well worth learning if you’re as frustrated as I was with the standard Shortcuts capabilities. Combined with Pushcut the possibilities seem pretty limitless.

Even though the app claims to use JavaScriptCore, which supports WebAssembly, none of the Wasm APIs are available. Hugely missed opportunity, this could've been a five-star full-fledged IDE for all languages that support Wasm.

You can use it for widgets on home screen, remember the “scriptable” widget then select your script!

This app has exceeded my expectations of how easy it is creating iOS widgets by code without the need of traditional developer tools. All thanks to Scriptable which has taken widget creating to a whole new level. Love it!!!

This is one of my most heavily used apps. It makes the iPad and iPhone far more useful - enabling their use for tasks that would previously have required a separate computer. It is difficult to overstate how useful it is to be able to develop and run arbitrary JavaScript on the device itself. The uses for this are wide-ranging, including implementing custom Siri commands far beyond the capabilities of the Shortcuts app, and easily creating arbitrary new Widgets on the home screen. Full access is provided to most of the more useful iOS features including the calendar, contacts, file manager, keychain, mail, messages, notifications, clipboard, photos, Safari, speech, and many others. There are only two slightly annoying limitations. The first is that there are relatively few library modules provided as standard, and it is tricky to add others (it is not possible to just “npm install” additional modules). The second is that the built-in editor is extremely limited, e.g. without even basic find-and-replace capability. so for any non-trivial editing it is necessary to use another app. The developer is working on a new editor, so hopefully this latter complaint will be addressed soon. There is also great support, both from the developer and the community.

What a great idea this app is, although I have to admit I must have lost several days to tinkering with custom widgets! Well designed and actively maintained by the developer. Thanks!

The thing about Color Widgets (why do they even spell it like that 😂) is that it is customizable but limited possibilities. Not few but limited. With scriptable, it is not like there is a lot. It is unlimited. With letters and numbers and symbols, you can make your dream widget, on top of this it is not only for widgets,but this is the main reason I use it) but you code things like the you PiP shortcut. It is the best. Only slightly annoying part is to find a script online for your widget. I recommend joining the r/scriptable on Reddit because they fix problems. Make a request and someone will probably code it for you. Well done Scriptable creators. UNDERATED

Ha! The new update stated bug fixes so I updated my app and after that I can’t use the app because it created more bugs. I used it for PIP and the function is no longer available

So easy to use, and enables me to do things I could not do in Siri shortcuts. There's a reason this tool is so high on developer tools. 10/10 must have.

This app is truly incredible. With it you can easily run completely custom javascript widgets that open up so many possibilities never before seen on iOS. You can also create powerful automations using real code instead of trying to hack it together in Shortcuts. 10/10 would recommend.