App to Save Variable in iOS Shortcuts

by Rian

My old iOS shortcuts usually walked the path of tedious madness for the pure purpose of compatibility. I needed a shortcut that would work equally well on all platforms, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and even on HomePod, and that meant several things: one. I can’t have shortcuts relying on apps that do not exist universally, two. there has to be a way to save data shortcuts have treated, three. any save datas from apps had to be exported and imported from iCloud. With the sandboxing Shortcuts follow, creating a seamless shortcut was rather painful.

This is where Data Jar comes in, freely available from App Store for iOS and macOS. It’s truly a simple app that lets you store away variable for later use. It could even serve as a universal variable storage, should you ever need of one.

The app even lets you store and access files via iCloud, meaning you can make variables accessible outside of Siri Shortcut. In order to do all these, it supports iCloud sync. It’s definitely a handy tool for Shortcut enthusiasts. Again, the app is free without ads, but the tip jar is available.

note: Featured image is from the Data Jar