My Buttons vs Upwards
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
Upwards
Enhance your browsing experience by adding a "Back to Top" button to any webpage. This tool remembers your scroll position and allows you to return to specific points with ease. It also features "Pitstops" to bookmark locations for later access.
- Add 'Back to Top' button
- Remember scroll position
- Set page checkpoints ('Pitstops')
- Return to bookmarked locations
- Customizable button functionality
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Add a "Back to Top" button to any webpage. It remembers the position where you scrolled up from and lets you go back to it. Plus, it has a feature called "PitStops" that lets you set checkpoints on a page that you can return to later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Upwards at 3.2 against My Buttons's 1.5. Upwards also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 28%). My Buttons's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.5). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Upwards sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. My Buttons asks for nothing beyond the download.
Upwards holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of My Buttons's written reviews are positive against 50% of Upwards's.
My Buttons ships an update every 6 months, Upwards every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Buttons | Upwards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (6 ratings) | 3.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 16.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Throw Lab | Ritinkar Pramanik |
Customer experience
My Buttons
Upwards
In-app purchases
My Buttons
No in-app purchases
Upwards
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