Comparison

CTRL vs ApiAmo

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

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About

CTRL

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CTRL-Bee è un'applicazione che permette di monitorare le bilance CTRL-Bee: la bilancia progettata per apicoltori che cercano affidabilità e accuratezza. La struttura a Doppia H in Acciaio Zincato garantisce resistenza e versatilità per arnie da 6 a 10 telaini. I componenti elettronici offrono un'accuratezza estrema, con un errore massimo di appena 0,025% e correzione automatica delle derive termiche.

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ApiAmo

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ApiAmo is the beekeeper's digital notebook: from hive to jar, everything in one app. APIARIES, HIVES AND FRAMES • Several apiaries with a map location and weather • Hives in three formats, 10/9, 7/6 and 5/4: brood box and supers, health status with smileys • Quick field visit: status, queen spotted, queen cells, stores, temperament, typed or dictated notes, photos and voice notes • Frames: type and fill level of each one, moves with full history and “Arrange frames” when the brood box is full VOICE DICTATION • Tap “Record the inspection” on the main screen, or “Dictate the inspection” in a hive, and talk • The app fills in status, queen, queen cells, stores, temperament, frames, treatments and feeding, then shows a summary to correct • Simple phrases like “status good” or “frame 3 brood 30%” are enough; with Apple Intelligence it also understands free speech MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING • Move hives, even from several apiaries, to a site with bloom, period and map position • A checklist of what the law requires in your country, to tick off • On return, hives go home, to another apiary or to a new one • Yearly PDF, a filter in the log and a practical page in the guide COLONY HEALTH • Varroa count (natural drop, powdered sugar, alcohol wash) with trend and alert • Treatments and feeding with batch, expiry and documents • Queens with age, marking colour and history • Swarms and reminders with notifications: repeating every N days, weeks, months or years, for several hives, an apiary or in general, with an advance alert • Reminders suggested by the app: return from a migratory site, varroa check after treatment, the month's tasks • Diseases and problems with severity and photos, alert for notifiable diseases GUIDE AND REGULATIONS • Beekeeper's guide: what to do this month, yearly calendar, varroa, feeding and honey season, adapted to your area • Regulations of 13 countries, with the revision date HONEY • Weigh your supers (gross, tare, honey) • Extraction from the supers: traceable batches, even from several apiaries, Brix reading after reading, wax • Jarring in 1 kg, 500 g, 250 g, 125 g, 40 g or custom jars, jar stock, sales and customers • Print-ready labels with a traceability QR code • MieliAmo: publish your batches on mieliamo.com and receive bookings, with sales and jars always in sync QR CODES, TAGS AND NFC • Numbered tags to have printed in batches, with your country's beekeeper registration number • “Scan” in the apiary: the hive opens and supers are placed, moved or put in storage • On iPhone also NFC tags on hives, supers and frames: hold your phone near them and they open, with the same numbering as the printed tags ACCOUNTS AND STOCK • Expenses, revenue and grants with documents • Inventory with minimum stock and expiry dates • Charts and summaries ALWAYS WITH YOU • Activity log of everything you record, exportable as PDF • Search across the whole app and a map of all your apiaries • Full backup and automatic copies • iCloud sync: the same data on iPhone, iPad and Mac • Also for Mac, with menu bar and keyboard shortcuts • Ready for iPhone Duo, folded or unfolded, in portrait and landscape • Face ID lock • Siri commands • Guided demo with sample data • In Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Romanian and Greek Your data stays on your device or, if you choose, in your iCloud. No account, no ads. TRY IT, THEN UNLOCK Try it free with 1 apiary and up to 3 hives. With a single purchase, no subscription, you remove every limit forever, migratory beekeeping included. Optional packs, also one-time purchases: “Honey production” (extraction, jarring, jar stock), “Identification” (QR codes, tags and NFC tags) and “Dictation” (inspections by voice). With “ApiAmo Complete” you get the unlock and every pack for less. And much more…

Screenshots

CTRL3 screens
ApiAmo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CTRL at none against ApiAmo's 5. ApiAmo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ApiAmo sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. CTRL asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CTRL ships an update every 5 weeks, ApiAmo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
CTRL versus ApiAmo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCTRLApiAmo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperIDONEA S.R.L.Maurizio Covarelli

In-app purchases

None

CTRL

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

ApiAmo

One-time5
  • Honey production$3.99
  • Identification$3.99
  • Voice dictation$4.99
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  • Sblocca ApiAmo$6.99
  • ApiAmo Complete$12.99

Questions

Is CTRL free?
CTRL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ApiAmo free?
ApiAmo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CTRL or ApiAmo have ads?
Neither CTRL nor ApiAmo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CTRL or ApiAmo?
CTRL ships an update every 5 weeks, and ApiAmo every 3 days. Most recently, CTRL was updated on October 30, 2026 and ApiAmo on October 31, 2026.

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