My Buttons vs Plan Poke
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Buttons
Create custom buttons for your home screen with unique icons and actions like making calls, sending texts, or opening apps. Store and share your button creations easily.
- Create custom buttons
- Assign icons and actions
- Offline icon creation
- Edit actions without recreating
- Store and manage button collections
- Share buttons via email
- Launch custom schemes/apps
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“My Buttons” will let you create your own buttons with an icon for the home screen and an action to perform. The action can be to make a call or any of the other types listed below. There are other apps that do similar things but here are a some unique features only found in “My Buttons”: -Internet connection is only needed on the first launch of “My Buttons”. Nothing will be sent on the internet. All other icon creation apps send the icon-image to a server. -The action can be changed without recreating the icon. -You can have a collection of buttons stored in the app and create them on the home screen at any time. -You can share your buttons via email. Your friends can use them after installing “My Buttons”. -You can configure custom schemes that will let you launch other apps like skype for example. List of Action types: Call FaceTime Email Text message (sms) Show contact (you choose an action every time) Safari (open web page) YouTube (open a video) Copy to clipboard (any text that you can later paste) Custom
Plan Poke
This utility app brings a classic networking feature to modern devices, allowing users to manage and search accounts. It offers iCloud syncing, customizable widgets, and secure access with Face-ID. Data can be imported/exported as JSON and shared easily.
- Account management (add, edit, search)
- iCloud data syncing
- Configurable widgets
- Face-ID security
- JSON import/export
- Data sharing via share sheet
- Swipe gestures and keyboard shortcuts
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Plan Poke is a portable finger client bringing this classic networking feature to modern devices. The feature set includes: - Add, Edit and Search accounts - iCloud data syncing - Shortcuts integration - Configurable Widgets in both the Large and Extra Large sizes - Face-ID to lock access to the app - Import / Export your data as JSON - Share data from people you follow via the share sheet or drag their entry into any app that can take text - An expanded view that's best for viewing ASCII art entries - Swipe gestures for common actions - Keyboard Shortcuts - Style the output of the response by choosing the background / foreground color Shortcuts include: 1. A 'Search Accounts' shortcut for retrieving account data from your device. 2. A 'Finger Request' shortcut for updating an account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Plan Poke at 100% against My Buttons's 30%. Plan Poke also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). My Buttons's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (6.0 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plan Poke holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of My Buttons's written reviews are positive against 100% of Plan Poke's.
My Buttons ships an update every 6 months, Plan Poke every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Buttons | Plan Poke |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Throw Lab | William Baer |
Customer experience
My Buttons
Plan Poke
In-app purchases
My Buttons
No in-app purchases
Plan Poke
No in-app purchases









