RoutineHub Is Growing, But Our Mission Remains the Same
For years, RoutineHub has been a place where people discover, share, and improve Apple Shortcuts. It has grown alongside the Shortcuts community, becoming a space where developers can publish their creations and users can find new ways to automate their everyday tasks.
Today, automation is evolving.
AI is becoming part of everyday workflows. Developers are building new tools, services, and integrations. And users are looking for ways to connect all of these technologies without having to search across countless platforms.
That is where RoutineHub's next chapter begins.
Shortcuts are still at the heart of RoutineHub
One thing is important to make clear: RoutineHub is not trying to replace Apple Shortcuts.
Shortcuts remain at the center of what RoutineHub is and what it has always been about.
The goal is not to move away from Shortcuts, but to give them more possibilities.
With the introduction of AI Prompts, AI Skills, and Plugins, RoutineHub is expanding the ecosystem around automation while keeping Shortcuts at its core.
Think of it as an evolution rather than a replacement.
A Shortcut can automate an action on your iPhone. A Plugin can connect an automation to an external service. An AI Skill can add specialized intelligence to a workflow. An AI Prompt can provide the instructions needed to make an AI-powered task work exactly the way you want.
Individually, each of these tools can be useful.
Together, they can become something much more powerful.
One place for everything automation
Automation has traditionally been fragmented.
You might find a Shortcut in one community, an AI prompt somewhere else, a useful API integration on another platform, and a specialized AI tool somewhere else entirely.
RoutineHub's vision is to bring these pieces together.
We want RoutineHub to become a home for automation.
Not just a place to download Shortcuts, but a place where users can discover the different building blocks they need to create better workflows.
This means making it easier to discover automation, experiment with new technologies, learn from other developers, and combine different tools into a single workflow.
The objective is simple:
If it can help you automate something, RoutineHub should be a place where you can discover it, learn about it, and build with it.
Built for developers and creators
RoutineHub has always depended on its community of creators.
Every Shortcut published on the platform represents someone's time, knowledge, experimentation, and creativity.
The same is true for Plugins, AI Skills, and AI Prompts.
Our vision is to give developers a place where they can share what they build, receive feedback, learn from other creators, and continuously improve their work.
Automation is rarely perfect on the first attempt.
A developer might publish an idea, receive suggestions from the community, discover a better approach, and eventually turn that first version into something much more powerful.
That process is valuable.
RoutineHub wants to be the place where that process happens.
Build it. Share it. Sell it.
There is another important part of this vision: developers should be able to benefit from the work they create.
Building automation takes time and resources. Developers may need to pay for servers, APIs, AI services, development tools, domains, hosting, and other infrastructure required to build and maintain their projects.
That's why RoutineHub has made it possible for creators to put a price on their work.
Today, developers can sell Shortcuts, Prompts, Skills, Plugins, and Cherri programs directly through RoutineHub.
Sell what you make on RoutineHub
The idea is simple: if you made it, you can put a price on it.
Creators decide how much their work is worth, and they can change it from free to paid whenever they choose.
This creates a more sustainable environment for automation developers. Instead of simply sharing their work for free, creators have the opportunity to generate revenue that can help cover the real costs behind development and continue funding future projects.
Supporting the people behind automation
A great automation doesn't appear out of nowhere.
Behind every useful Shortcut, Plugin, Skill, or Prompt there is someone who spent time figuring out how to make it work.
Sometimes that means hours of development. Sometimes it means paying for APIs, servers, AI models, software licenses, or other services.
RoutineHub wants the community to be able to support these creators in more than one way.
Knowledge and feedback are important. Financial support is important too.
When users purchase an automation from a developer, they are not just getting a useful tool. They are also helping that developer continue building and maintaining their work.
That creates a positive cycle:
Developers build → users discover → the community provides feedback → creators improve → users support creators → creators build more.
And the entire automation ecosystem becomes stronger.
More than a collection of tools
RoutineHub is not simply becoming a marketplace for automation. It is becoming a community around automation.
There is an important difference.
A marketplace is primarily about finding and purchasing something.
A community is about discovering, learning, sharing, improving, and helping each other.
That's the experience we want to build.
A developer should be able to publish a Shortcut, Plugin, Skill, Prompt, or Cherri program and know that there is a community around it.
A user should be able to discover an automation and have a place to ask questions, provide feedback, and learn how it works.
And creators should have opportunities to turn the projects they build into something sustainable.
The future of RoutineHub
Automation is changing quickly
Shortcuts opened the door to powerful personal automation. AI is now opening another door, allowing workflows to understand information, generate content, make decisions, and interact with users in completely new ways.
RoutineHub wants to bring these worlds together.
Shortcuts remain the foundation. AI Prompts, AI Skills, Plugins, and other tools expand what can be built around that foundation.
This isn't about replacing what made RoutineHub special.
It's about preserving it while giving the community more ways to create.
RoutineHub will continue to be a place for Shortcuts. But it can also become much more.
A place where developers share their work.
A place where users discover new automation.
A place where the community helps creators improve.
A place where developers can receive support for the tools and infrastructure behind their projects.
A place where creators can turn their knowledge and ideas into something sustainable.
And ultimately, a place where automation lives.
That's the vision for RoutineHub:
One community. One ecosystem. One place to discover, build, share, improve, and support automation.
Shortcuts are still at the heart of it.
We're simply building a bigger ecosystem around them.