ControlMySpa vs Clinical Field Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ControlMySpa
Remotely manage your hot tub's temperature, lighting, and schedules from your smartphone or tablet. Receive instant alerts for potential issues, ensuring peace of mind even when you're away.
- Remote temperature control
- Lighting management
- Schedule setup
- Push notification alerts
- Problem detection
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The ControlMySpa app connects you to your hot tub from any smartphone or tablet. Control the temperature, lights, set up schedules and more. Receive instant push notification alerts when a potential problem occurs so you and your dealer know about it, even while you're away.
Clinical Field Notes
This app allows users to create detailed medical field notebooks with rich media notes, including text, audio, images, and drawings. It offers tools for measurement and calculation, with options for password protection and secure export of notes.
- Rich media note-taking (text, audio, image, drawing)
- Medical image tracing and measurement tools
- Password protection for entries
- Secure note export via email or Dropbox
- No account sign-up required
- Individual media expiration
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Clinical Field Notes is a note taking app that allows the user to create medical field notebooks containing written, audio, image, and free hand drawing notes. It is a timeline style notes/journaling app that features: - Rich Media (Text, Image, Audio, Video, Free Hand Drawing, Web-link, Location, Events) - Tools (Tracing over a medical image, Ruler Measurement, Calculator) - Multiple Photos per Entry - Expiration for Individual media (expiry of 7 days) - Passwords for Individual Entry, Clinical Privacy Protect - Sending to Mail - No Accounts to sign up for - Export whole note by sending a zipped html file to Mail, or backup via Dropbox ===== About the author ===== Liansheng is a senior software developer who worked 4 years at EA mobile and has more than 10 years experiences of developing mobile applications. He has worked on large range of mobile platforms. After joining EA Mobile in 2006, Liansheng contributed to many of EA's major mobile products, he worked in frameworks team with special focus on 3D graphic and sound engine, he built the sound engine for the Rockband. Before joining EA, Liansheng worked at Isee3D, My Virtual Model and AppsGo. He has a Ph.D in Geochemistry from University of Paris, France. Please send your feedback to: clonecase@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ControlMySpa at Free against Clinical Field Notes's $4.99. ControlMySpa also leads on rating (3.9 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (580 vs 1). Clinical Field Notes's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
ControlMySpa is free to download; Clinical Field Notes costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ControlMySpa holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ControlMySpa has 580 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ControlMySpa ships an update every 5 weeks, Clinical Field Notes every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ControlMySpa | Clinical Field Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (580 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 11.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 580 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Balboa Water Group | Liansheng Zhang |
Customer experience
ControlMySpa
Clinical Field Notes
Bugs and requests
ControlMySpa
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inconsistent temperature display
- Inability to save settings
- Login issues and lost credentials
- Crashes and freezes after updates
Requested features
4 requests- More granular temperature control
- Ability to control lights and jets
- Improved scheduling options
- Push notifications for status changes
Clinical Field Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ControlMySpa
No in-app purchases
Clinical Field Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ControlMySpa free?
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