Automator vs Action(s) : Which is Better?

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Automator

Automator is an application that implements point-and-click (or drag and drop) creation of workflows for automating repetitive tasks into batches for quicker alteration, thus saving time and effort over human intervention to manually change each file separately. Developed by Apple

License: Commercial

Categories: Office & Productivity

Apps available for Mac OS X

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Action(s)

Action(s) comes with dozens of prebuilt actions you can use to populate your workflows.

License: Free

Categories: Office & Productivity

Apps available for Mac OS X Windows Discontinued

Automator VS Action(s) Feature comparision

Feature Automator Action(s)
Better tags service
Macros
Mouse gestures
Scripting
Create Macro
Task Automation
Automatic Looping
Linux
Portable
Scripting language
Workflow Automation
Screenshot OCR
Command line interface
Screen scraping
Disk Cloning
Image matching
Image recognition
Tab Control
Key mapping
No coding required
Custom rules
System Cleanup
Scriptable
Exe Compiler
Text expansion
Autocompletion
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
Function Key Shortcuts
Program Launchers
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Lua scripting
Customizable
Flow chart
Hotkeys
*community curated information: This table may not have the most accurate information. Please suggest changes

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