Toolbox Pro
Toolbox Pro is a companion app for Apple Shortcuts that adds advanced automation actions for text, files, images, device features, and app workflows.
What is Toolbox Pro?
Toolbox Pro is a Shortcuts companion app that expands what Apple’s Shortcuts automation system can do with additional actions and tools. It is designed for users who build personal automations, utility shortcuts, and workflow helpers on Apple devices. Common uses include working with text and images, scanning documents, reading text from images, organizing files, previewing content, and adding more flexible controls than the built-in Shortcuts actions provide. It also includes actions for areas such as reminders, calendar handling, Apple Music, contacts, NFC, authentication, and richer menu or preview experiences inside shortcut-driven workflows. Users typically install Toolbox Pro when they want to build more capable automations without writing their own app extensions. It was created by Alex Hay and remains well known in the Shortcuts community as an automation utility.
Key features
- Add extra actions to Apple Shortcuts for more advanced automations
- Scan documents and extract text from images with OCR tools
- Work with files, folders, tags, and richer file-handling workflows
- Create previews, menus, and interactive content for shortcut-based utilities
- Use actions for reminders, calendars, contacts, and Apple Music tasks
- Apply image tools, text processing, authentication, and NFC actions
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Toolbox Pro is legitimate automation software for Apple Shortcuts. Depending on the actions you use, it may request access to files, photos, contacts, reminders, calendars, music, or other device features, which is normal for an automation app with this scope. The practical risk is mainly that a shortcut can handle or modify the data you intentionally give it access to, so review the permissions you grant and only run shortcuts you trust.
Recommendation: Keep Toolbox Pro if you use Apple Shortcuts or rely on shortcuts that call its actions. Remove it if you no longer use those automations, but expect any shortcuts built around Toolbox Pro features to stop working or lose advanced functions.
Common paths
/Applications/Toolbox Pro.app
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