My Buttons vs Control Mark
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
Control Mark
Create quick access shortcuts to your favorite websites. Add any webpage and place these shortcuts on your lockscreen, as action buttons, or as Control Center widgets for instant access.
- Add any webpage as a shortcut
- Share sheet extension for easy adding
- Customizable shortcut symbols
- Lockscreen quick actions
- Control Center widget integration
- Action Button support
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Control Mark lets you create quick access shortcuts to your favorite websites. Add any website in the Control Mark or while browsing using the Add Page to Control Mark action. You can then place your favorite websites on your lockscreen as quick action button, as action for the Action Button, or as Control Center Widget. Features: - Add any webpage as Control Mark - Action Extension for the Share sheet to add a Control Mark directly from the browser - Choose an individual symbol for the Control Mark - Add Control Marks to your lockscreen as quick action, to the Control Center, or the Action Button
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: My Buttons at Free against Control Mark's $0.99. My Buttons also leads on review sentiment (30% vs 0%) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). Control Mark's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months). 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
My Buttons is free to download; Control Mark costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Control Mark holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Buttons has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of My Buttons's written reviews are positive against 0% of Control Mark's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
My Buttons ships an update every 6 months, Control Mark every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Buttons | Control Mark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 1.5 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Throw Lab | Arno Appenzeller |
Customer experience
My Buttons
Control Mark
In-app purchases
My Buttons
No in-app purchases
Control Mark
No in-app purchases
