Logger for Shortcuts

Name: Logger for Shortcuts
Rating: 4.7 (27 reviews)
Author: Snailed It Development Ltd

by Snailed It Development Ltd

iPhone · iPad

Active Last checked 31 Jul 2026

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At a glance: $4.99
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Price: $4.99
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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

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4.7 27 ratings · App Store

5/5A Must Have!
If you are writing shortcuts on your phone, this is so much better than a Quick Look action. A quick look gives a moment in time reference and then is gone. This combines all your checks through a script into one place that gives context to an entry and where things may have gone off the rails. I recouped the $5 for it with the time saved on the very first shortcut I used it for.

stephenfeather · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Must-have app for debugging Shortcuts
If you have any interest in writing shortcuts for your iOS device, this is an indispensable app. I can't recommend it highly enough. It's been we'll worth the purchase price for me.

johnfmorton · 31 Jul 2026
1/5Broken on iOS 16.1.1 and macOS 13.2
Currently, this app opens up with a black screen on iOS and does not open at all on macOS. I really liked this app for debugging shortcuts, but I hadn't intentionally used it in at least a few months, so I can't give the exact version in which this app stopped working. My best guess is that the last major releases of both iOS and macOS broke the app probably due to some under-the-hood changes to the Shortcuts app. I hope the developer is able to address this breaking issue!

xDredzx · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Pretty Cool
I saw this on DF and bought it straight away. It doesn't work exactly as I expected — logs are genereated by descrete steps added to the shortcut as desired rather than generating a full-shortcut log — but it does debug like a champ! If you have longer or more complex shortcuts this is probably going to save you a ton of trouble. Likewise, if you're new, it's useful to really understand what your shortcut is doing. I'm sure furutre versions will be even better, still, not so sure about the price point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

DrPeril · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Do yourself a favor & buy it
This app will pay dividends in time saved/headaches avoided when troubleshooting those shortcuts that don’t want to work. It’s worth the investment to say the least. Actively updated with great devs.

SKEvil22 · 31 Jul 2026

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1.0
1.1.0
• You can now toggle between seeing the latest or earliest messages first • Improved layout on larger iPads • Minor bug fixes
1.2.0
- Default to starting with logging enabled - The Clear Messages Shortcuts Action now supports filtering by level and tag - Added ability to swipe-to-delete log entries
1.2.1
- Force iOS to compact database on next run after Clear Messages -> All is selected
1.2.2
- "Random Colour" button is now a little less random: It will no longer sometimes select the colour that the tag is already using (making the button appear to have done nothing). - "Random Colour" button had no accessibility label.
1.3
- Disallow creating tags with the same name other than whitespace - Improve performance when deleting a large quantity of tags - Shortcuts actions are now grouped by category - Update "Log Device Details" action to support latest devices
1.3.1
- Add Send Feedback button
1.4
- Massively optimise memory usage when Logger is storing a large number of messages - Fix "Tag" context menu on messages appearing as "%#@VARIABLE@"
1.4.1
- Fix message sorting not being applied - Fix crash reporting potentially blocking Shortcuts actions from running - Stop "No Messages" page appearing when no messages match the filter - Add progress spinner when loading/filtering messages - Some groundwork for future performance improvements identifying JSON messages
1.4.2
- Fix “Open In Jayson” context menu item not appearing the first time the context menu is opeed
1.4.3
- Tags can now be added to Log Internet Connection and Log Device Details
1.4.5
- Fix app forgetting sort order ("Earliest First" vs "Latest First") on leaving the foreground - Fix "Show Intervals" causing app to crash when sorting is set to "Earliest First" - Fix tag filter not being applied until app is quit and re-opened - Fix showing negative intervals when sort order is Show Earliest First
1.5
- Toolbar has been re-arranged and is now customisable on iPadOS. - `shortcuts-logger://logs` URL Scheme. Query parameters are `tag`, `search`, `contentType`, `category`, `device` (e.g. shortcuts-logger://logs?contentType=Images shows only images, shortcuts-logger://logs?search=yourTextHere searches for text…proper documentation coming soon). - iPad keyboard shortcuts that match the macOS app (press-and-hold ⌘ to see the available shortcuts). - Significant performance improvements to applying/removing tags to/from filtered messages. - Improve performance when logging multiple messages (or a list of messages) with a single Logger action. - Open Logger shortcuts action. We'd like to thank CGP Grey for naming Logger is "App of the Year" on the Cortex podcast!
1.5.1
In 1.5.1: - Remove extraneous zero in timestamps - Fix intermittent crash In 1.5: - Toolbar has been re-arranged and is now customisable on iPadOS. - `shortcuts-logger://logs` URL Scheme. Query parameters are `tag`, `search`, `contentType`, `category`, `device` (e.g. shortcuts-logger://logs?contentType=Images shows only images, shortcuts-logger://logs?search=yourTextHere searches for text…proper documentation coming soon). - iPad keyboard shortcuts that match the macOS app (press-and-hold ⌘ to see the available shortcuts). - Significant performance improvements to applying/removing tags to/from filtered messages. - Improve performance when logging multiple messages (or a list of messages) with a single Logger action. - Open Logger shortcuts action. We'd like to thank CGP Grey for naming Logger is "App of the Year" on the Cortex podcast!
1.5.2
- Dark and Tinted app icons - Fix duplicate tags appearing for some users in filter menus - Fix message intervals having an extra '0' at the beginning of the milliseconds segment
1.5.3
- Fixed some of the toggles in Log Device Details affecting the wrong properties (Screen Size changed battery, Screen Scale changed Screen Size, and Battery changed Screen Scale) - Fixed device names for some iPads in Log Device Details and added the latest devices
1.7 · 15 Sep 2025
Gave the app a fresh coat of paint, happy logging!

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