Published May 9, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry in some way or another since 2017. In my spare time, you’ll probably find me playing Counter-Strike or VALORANT, and you can reach out to me at  adam@xda-developers.com , on Twitter as @AdamConwayIE , on Instagram as AdamConwayIE , or u/AdamConwayIE on Reddit. Sign in to your XDA account Tines and n8n have always looked similar from the outside while feeling very different the moment you actually use them. Both let you string actions together into automated workflows, both have a free tier you can poke around in, and both have spent the last year racing to bolt natural-language AI builders onto their canvases.…