# Asset Builder | Shortcuts Library

> Asset Builder, add and manage assets for including in your Shortcut.

## What this shortcut does

Add, remove, manage and keep dictionaries for including in your Shortcut.
When finished adding pictures, video, audio files/text Asset Builder shares a json/dictionary that you paste into a text box in your Shortcut. You then use the assets anywhere in your Shortcut with a dictionary variable. Adding assets individually to a dictionary action can be fiddly, whereas pasting them all at once into a text box is easier.
If you need to edit you assets, you can just copy them out of the box, and then paste them back in.
If shortcuts is being buggy you can just add a copy to clipboard action, to get out, and sometimes it’s just easier to copy the assets into a new text box than to delete the old set inside the text box.
You can just share back to Asset Builder if you need to add/delete or copy assets.
You can easily reuse your dictionaries in other Shortcuts
Easier than transferring several long strings into a Shortcut dictionary
Individual values can be viewed/decoded, deleted or shared
Zip several files together
Asset Types
Base 64 encoded
Zip Files
Images
Audio
Video
Text
vcards
Dictionaries
HTML
Works with

## Compatibility

iPhone, iPad

## Required apps



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