Comparison

ControlPortal vs Margin

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ControlPortal

This app automatically discovers and connects to a specific server on your local network. It offers a full-screen experience suitable for kiosk or guided access modes and ensures continuous reconnection during network interruptions.

Highlights
  • Automatic server discovery
  • Local network connectivity
  • Full-screen experience
  • Kiosk mode support
  • Guided Access mode support
  • Automatic reconnection
Features
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PoE Texas ControlPortal Connectivity App automatically finds the ControlPortal Server on your local network and connects you to it. The app provides a full-screen experience and can be used as the main Kiosk mode or Guided Access mode app, as well as it automatically reconnects you to the ControlPortal Server on network interruptions.

About

Margin

This app intelligently identifies and helps you remove unwanted files like duplicate photos, old screenshots, and large videos to free up storage space on your device. It allows you to preview exactly what will be deleted or compressed before making any changes, ensuring your important memories are safe.

Highlights
  • Groups near-identical photos
  • Identifies screen recordings and expired screenshots
  • Compresses large videos and images
  • Previews space before deletion
  • Runs entirely on-device
  • Files recoverable from Recently Deleted
Features
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Your phone is full, and it's never the photos you meant to keep — it's five near-identical shots of the same moment, a screen recording from months ago, and the screenshot you took to remember something and never deleted. Margin finds all of it and shows you exactly what you'd get back before anything is touched. SEE THE SPACE BEFORE YOU FREE IT Margin groups near-identical photos into sets, picks the strongest frame in each one, and lets you review the rest at a glance — a full contact sheet per set, not one photo at a time. Screen recordings, expired screenshots (sorted by the text in them), and exact duplicate files are each their own category, so you know exactly where your storage is going. OR COMPRESS INSTEAD OF DELETE Long videos and large images over a size you choose can be re-encoded in place instead of removed — picked individually or as a batch, tracked from a compression tray. Camera, date and location metadata survive exactly as they were. NOTHING IS EVER PERMANENT Every deletion goes through your device's own Recently Deleted album — recoverable until you empty it yourself, exactly as if you'd deleted the photo in Photos. Nothing Margin suggests touches anything you've already favorited, edited, or filed into an album. RUNS ENTIRELY ON YOUR DEVICE Margin has no network code. There is no server, no account, no analytics, no third-party SDK — nothing your photos could be sent to, because there is no code path capable of sending them anywhere. Every comparison happens locally using Apple's own PhotoKit and Vision frameworks. Built for iPhone and iPad, sharing one engine with the Mac app.

Screenshots

ControlPortal2 screens
Margin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Margin at 100% against ControlPortal's 0%. Margin also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 months). ControlPortal's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ControlPortal ships an update every 10 months, Margin every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ControlPortal versus Margin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlPortalMargin
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTEAndrews Holdings LLCMUDDASSIR IQBAL

Customer experience

ControlPortal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Margin

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ControlPortal

No in-app purchases

None

Margin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ControlPortal free?
ControlPortal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Margin free?
Margin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ControlPortal or Margin have ads?
Neither ControlPortal nor Margin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ControlPortal or Margin?
ControlPortal ships an update every 10 months, and Margin every 2 days. Most recently, ControlPortal was updated on November 3, 2026 and Margin on November 6, 2026.

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