Shortcuts for PC

★ ★ ★ Shortcuts Overview

What is Shortcuts?

The Siri Shortcuts app allows users to create personal shortcuts with multiple steps from their favorite apps. With over 300 built-in actions and compatibility with many popular apps, Shortcuts can be used to automate tasks and make using your iPhone or iPad more efficient.

Software Features and Description

1. Shortcuts includes over 300 built-in actions and works with many of your favorite apps including Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Camera, Reminders, Safari, Health as well as any app that supports Siri Shortcuts.

2. Siri Shortcuts deliver a quick way to get things done with your apps with just a tap or by asking Siri.

3. The Shortcuts app enables you to create personal shortcuts with multiple steps from your favorite apps.

4. Shortcuts can be launched from the Today widget, from Search or by asking Siri.

5. Shortcuts opens up incredible possibilities to automate things you do regularly on your iPhone and iPad.

6. You can even add an app icon to your home screen for your favorite Shortcuts.

7. Start from hundreds of examples in the Gallery or drag and drop to create your own.

8. Liked Shortcuts? here are 5 Productivity apps like Google Drive; Microsoft Outlook; Yahoo Mail - Organized Email; HP Smart; Microsoft Word;

Download and install Shortcuts on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Shortcuts	Get App ↲	8,575 4.22	Apple

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Shortcuts app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Shortcuts on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Shortcuts"
The search will reveal the Shortcuts app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Shortcuts is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Shortcuts.
Now enjoy Shortcuts on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Apple	4.22	2.2.2

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native Shortcuts Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use Shortcuts,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "Shortcuts" » then Click "Install".
- Shortcuts will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get Shortcuts on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	Apple	8575	4.22

Download on Android: Download Android

Shortcuts functions

- Create personal shortcuts with multiple steps

- Choose from hundreds of examples in the Gallery or create your own

- Includes over 300 built-in actions

- Works with many popular apps including Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Camera, Reminders, Safari, and Health

- Can be launched from the Today widget, from Search, or by asking Siri

- Add an app icon to your home screen for your favorite shortcuts

- Automate tasks such as getting directions, sending messages, making PDFs, and more

- Make animated GIFs and tweet the song you're listening to

- Get all of the images on a web page and send a message including the last screenshot you took.

✔ Pros:

- The app is much faster and more deeply integrated into iOS since it became Shortcuts

- Editing shortcuts is more intuitive with the actions menu remaining available at the bottom of the screen

- The visual redesign is refreshing

- The app is generally really useful and amazing, allowing users to do a lot with it

- Watching videos of people designing their own shortcuts is enjoyable and helpful

☹ Cons:

- Shortcuts doesn't recognize Drafts 4 and redirects users to the app store to download it

- The new UI flow for creating a shortcut is generally hard to use

- There are still gaps in terms of actions

- The app has limited functionality and is missing some simple, obvious features

- Development seems effectively dead with only one minor feature update in the past 10 months

Top Pcmac Reviews

Shortcuts improves on Workflow app

By Bloogybloogy (Pcmac user)

I had used the Workflow app for a while before they joined apple, and it blew my mind how completely it improved the way I interact with my phone. Now that Workflow has changed to this app the app is so much faster and seems much more deeply integrated into iOS. Editing this app is much more intuitive now that the actions menu remains available at the bottom of the screen. The visual redesign is also really refreshing. It still amazes me that I can do so much with this app. My only complaints: I have Drafts 4 installed but this app doesn’t recognize it and continues to redirect me to the app store to download. This is a huge pain as many of my this app are based on that version of Drafts. Additionally, the Drafts actions show the icon for Drafts 5, but the actions themselves refer to Drafts 4 (the “View in App Store” link even directs me to Drafts 4, which I already have installed). My other smaller complaint is that I wish there were more connections to system settings - I would love to be able to turn rotation lock off or on with one click, or access and update my alarms via this app but neither of these seem to be possible (yet).
Let me mark reminders as complete!

By DoomLizard (Pcmac user)

Apparently this is the easiest way for me to make a feature request 🙄 Anyway, I’ve been using this app before Apple took it over, and it’s generally really useful. I do have a few complaints though: 1. The new UI flow for creating a shortcut is generally hard to use. I understand why the this app are on a card at the bottom now, b/c it gives more of a feeling of being able to flip back and forth, but you have to pull the card up from the bottom slowly or else you pull up the widget screen, and what’s on the card first is suggestions (not what I want) & I have to tap on the search bar to bring up the actual categories and get over to Favorites (generally what I want to see first). 2. There are still some gaps in terms of actions. For example, the reason I’m writing this review is that I want to change a reminder from checked to unchecked through this app, but the only option I have is to delete the reminder instead, an action that requires three confirmations before executing. That’s a major slowdown to my script. Plz add this feature.
“Almost” Perfect App

By prestonmcmillan (Pcmac user)

This app is amazing and I am loving what all this app can do! I enjoy watching videos of people design their own this app and then make one that works for me. A couple of suggestions to make for future versions: Can we have a few instructional videos for new comers to learn to make their own this app? Maybe a few varieties of beginning, intermediate and advanced. Can we have a better way of searching or seeing all of the commands that this app has in its library? Last but not least, can there be a way to set a clock alarm to a specific and not “suggested” enable or disable time? I would love to set a clock alarm based on a variable. See the Set Brightness command where you can change it from a slider to a place where you can input a number or variable. My goal is to have Siri ask me what time I want to get up and have her take my speech input, store it as a variable and pass it to a new clock alarm. Thanks for the great app and I look forward to seeing its improvements.
Largely Pointless

By just some guy who likes this (Pcmac user)

UPDATE: In the ~10 months since I originally left this review, they’ve made one minor feature update. Still pointless and at this rate it always will be. Reducing to rating from 2 stars to one, as development seems effectively dead. I like where they’re going with this but in its current state it has extremely limited functionality. It’s kind of strange; even really simple, obvious stuff is missing from a lot of the built in apps. For example, you can get an ETA to a destination from Maps but there’s no way to return any information about the route. So I can get it to tell me how long it’s going to take to get to work in the morning but will not get any indication of which of the numerous routes it’s referring to. Ok, no problem, I’ll get directions and parse out some route details... nope, the only map directions-related actions open the Maps app, you can’t just have it return text. I don’t want or need this because I’m not going to navigate a route I drive multiple times a week, I just want “19 mins via Highway 123”. I’ve thought up a dozen different this app I’ve wanted to make but only had one not turn out to be infeasible the apps limitations. Maybe this will be great after a couple years of development. Right now, it’s a novelty.