yallo vs ControlPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
yallo
Easily manage your mobile account with quick access to call credit, usage history, and active options. Top up your account and activate or deactivate services without needing to remember passwords. Future updates will include credit card top-ups and exclusive app offers.
- Easy account overview
- Check remaining call credit
- Top up account
- View usage history
- Manage active options
- Activate/deactivate services
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The most convenient way to get a quick overview of your account. Highlights: Easy login. See your remaining call credit. Top up your account. See your usage and top-up history. Check on active options. Activate and deactivate options. Easy login: Log in once with your yallo number and stay logged in. No password to remember. Manage your options: With the yallo app you can see what options you have active, when they will be renewed and how much they cost. There’s more to come! We are planning to add more features in the upcoming months including: Credit Card top-up and Special offers exclusive to app users. Note: The App is available exclusively to those with a yallo Mobile Switzerland SIM card. -------------------------------------- Costs: -using yallo CH App is free of charge -the Apps data traffic, is billed in accordance with the connection rates of your mobile service provider or your Wi-Fi network. -using the application abroad will result in additional cost due to roaming. Feedback: If you discover a bug or have suggestions to improve this app, please contact us at app@yallo.ch. For bug reports, please include as much relevant information as possible. We would greatly appreciate it if you could leave us a five star rating!!
ControlPad
Transform your iPhone or iPad into a versatile remote for your Mac. It functions as a trackpad, keyboard, and app-specific control surface, adapting automatically to the application you're using. Enjoy seamless control from anywhere in the room.
- Mac-like trackpad experience
- Full iPhone/iPad keyboard input
- App-adaptive controls
- Three customizable layouts
- Haptic feedback
- Private, local network connection
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a trackpad, keyboard and control surface for your Mac, one that automatically adapts to the app you're using. Control your Mac from the couch, across the room or right beside your desk. ControlPad connects directly to your Mac over your local network, with a trackpad tuned to feel like a MacBook's and controls that change as you switch apps. A TRACKPAD THAT FEELS LIKE YOUR MAC'S • Tap to click, two fingers to scroll, press and drag to move windows • Two-finger tap to right-click • Four-finger swipes for Mission Control, App Exposé and switching Spaces • Pointer speed tuned to match a MacBook trackpad, and adjustable to suit you TYPE WITH YOUR OWN KEYBOARD • Type on your Mac with the iPhone or iPad keyboard you already know, including autocorrect, dictation and emoji • Command, Option, Control and Shift, the arrow keys and Escape, always one tap away CONTROLS THAT FOLLOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING Switch apps on your Mac and ControlPad adapts automatically: tabs and navigation in Safari, replies in Mail, formatting in Notes, builds in Xcode, playback for music and video. More than 50 Mac apps have their own controls, and every other app still gets the essentials, like Undo, Copy, Paste and Find. THREE LAYOUTS • Input: the whole screen is your trackpad • Balanced: a trackpad and your app's controls, side by side • Controls: every command at a glance, beside your own keyboard and mouse Switch any time, on iPhone and iPad. MORE • Switch between the apps running on your Mac • Pair as many iPhones and iPads as you like; one controls your Mac at a time • Haptic feedback for clicks, drags, gestures and controls PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your devices talk directly to each other over your local network, with no cloud service in between • Pair once with a code shown on your Mac; the code is never sent over the network, and every connection is secure. • No account, no sign-up and no in-app analytics GETTING STARTED ControlPad works with ControlPad for Mac, a companion app you download from controlpad.tech. Open it on your Mac, allow Accessibility access when macOS asks (it's what lets ControlPad move the pointer and type for you), then open ControlPad on your iPhone or iPad on the same local network. Your Mac appears by itself; enter the code it shows and you're connected. Requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, and a Mac with macOS 26.6 or later on the same local network.
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Verdict
yallo and ControlPad both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ControlPad's written reviews are positive against 25% of yallo's. ControlPad also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 7 months). yallo's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for yallo against 5.0 for ControlPad. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: yallo has 35 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 25% of yallo's written reviews are positive against 100% of ControlPad's.
yallo ships an update every 7 months, ControlPad every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | yallo | ControlPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sunrise UPC GmbH | Alan Bryden |
Customer experience
yallo
ControlPad
In-app purchases
yallo
No in-app purchases
ControlPad
No in-app purchases









