Scriptable Downloads & RevenueScriptable · App Store
Scriptable is #7 in Developer Tools Free in Japan and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Full timeline · 24 events in the last 12 months
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · CN
- ✏️Scriptable added hidden keywords: javascript, programmingwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Scriptable added hidden keywords: apiwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Scriptable added hidden keywords: native, apiwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 10 in 4 chartsTop Free · Developer Tools · AU · Top Free · Developer Tools · CA · Top Free · Developer Tools · GB · Top Free · Developer Tools · US
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 10Top Free · Developer Tools · AE
- ✏️Scriptable added hidden keywords: userscriptswords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🆕Scriptable: its developer released another app: Wavy Road: Endless Driving
- ✏️Scriptable added hidden keywords: programmingwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 10Top Free · Developer Tools · CN
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 10Top Free · Developer Tools · FR
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · IT
- ✏️Scriptable added hidden keywords: pytowords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 10Top Free · Developer Tools · DE
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · RU
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · AU
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 10Top Free · Developer Tools · JP
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · JP
- ✏️Scriptable added hidden keywords: macrowords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · CA
- ✏️Scriptable added hidden keywords: usingwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Scriptable entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · FR
- 🆕Scriptable first spotted by AppInsider#14 in Top Free · Developer Tools · Germany
- 🆕Scriptable released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Scriptable at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Scriptable is a free iOS automation tool that allows users to write JavaScript scripts for creating custom home screen widgets, Siri shortcuts, and background tasks. The app maintains strong visibility in the Developer Tools category across major global markets, ranking between #4 and #14 in regions including Brazil, South Korea, Japan, France, China, Italy, Australia, Germany, UAE, Canada, UK, and the US.
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Scriptable on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Scriptable declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Scriptable downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Scriptable's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Scriptable makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Large Tip | |
| 2 | Small Tip | |
| 3 | Medium Tip |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Developer ToolsFree | #7 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #14 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #10 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #6 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #4 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #13 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #12 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #9 | |
| Developer ToolsGrossing | #49 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #13 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #13 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #11 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #16 | |
| Developer ToolsGrossing | #78 | |
| Developer ToolsGrossing | #43 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #25 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #13 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #22 | |
| Developer ToolsGrossing | #86 | |
| Developer ToolsFree | #30 |
Apps near Scriptable on the chart
Developer Tools Free, around #7.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in
China ▲ +29%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 36% | steady | |
| 7.5 | 11% | ▲ +29% | |
| 6.8 | 10% | ▼ -19% | |
| 6.8 | 10% | ▲ +23% | |
| 4.8 | 7% | ▼ -9% | |
| 3.5 | 5% | ▼ -40% | |
| 3.2 | 5% | ▼ -12% | |
| 3 | 5% | ▼ -25% | |
| 2.2 | 3% | ▼ -43% | |
| 2 | 3% | ▼ -57% | |
| 1.5 | 2% | – | |
| 1 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Scriptable
From the 54 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the app's powerful automation capabilities and potential for creating custom widgets, often highlighting its synergy with AI tools. However, significant complaints focus on frequent crashes, poor documentation, and usability issues like text selection difficulties.
Mixed but leaning positive (61% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and working reliably. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Useful: “Also, it was recommended by Chat GPT based upon my query!”
- Crashes & bugs: “I keep getting errors of syntax errors”
- Ease of use: “I think it’s wonderful Apple assist people in creating apps it makes it easy and has a platform ball tools and guidance”
- Features & content: “A big thank you to Simon for making this great tool freely available”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Not working after update!”
- Updates: “Not working after update!”
About Scriptable
An extensive support for widgets enables you to write your own widgets using JavaScript and run the scripts on your Home Screen. Your widgets can show any data and be customised to look just the way you want.
With Siri Shortcuts you can present images, tables and more in Siri as well as making Siri read out loud a text when you run a script from a Siri Shortcut.
There's a growing gallery of scripts to get you started with Scriptable.
Here’s a few examples of scripts you can create:
- Ask Siri whether a web service is down.
- Create a widget that shows data from your weather station.
- Postpone the next event in your calendar half an hour.
- Check what is currently on TV.
- Manage a list of movies you would like to watch.
- Upload files to an image optimizer and store a URL to the optimized image.
- Receive a notification with the weather report every morning.
- Create todos with prefilled data in your favorite todo app using URL schemes.
Features include:
- Write and run JavaScript.
- Auto complete of variable names, functions, keywords and properties as you type.
- Access lots of native iOS features from your JavaScript code, including managing files, calendars, reminders, contacts, photos, location, pasteboard, web views and more.
- Create your own widgets. Your scripts run on the Home Screen without needing to open the app.
- Siri Shortcuts enabling you to present images, tables, websites, HTML and more in Siri as well as making Siri read out loud a text.
- Support for input and output parameters in Siri Shortcuts.
- Easily schedule rich notifications to run your scripts periodically.
- Work with files and directories from third party apps using File Bookmarks.
- Synchronise scripts to all of your devices using iCloud Drive.
- Scripts are stored as plain JavaScript files and can be browsed using the Files app.
- Assign one of over 800 glyphs and a color to a script to easily identify it in your directory of scripts.
- Run scripts directly on your Lock Screen and Home Screen using widgets.
- Run a script by 3D touching the app icon.
- Run a script from a share sheet and process the inputs.
- Schedule notifications and run a script directly from a notification.
- URL schemes enabling you to run scripts from other apps.
- Support for x-callback-url enabling advanced integration with other apps that support x-callback-url.
- Export and share scripts.
- Example scripts helping you get started creating your own scripts.
- Extensive documentation for all the native APIs you can use in your scripts. Available offline in the app and online on docs.scriptable.app.
- View the documentation in a separate window on iPad.
- Support for dark mode.
- Customise the editor to your liking.
Latest updates
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