Stealth vs Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stealth
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Stealth is an AI assistant that runs entirely on your iPhone. Your words, photos, recordings and files are processed on the device and stored encrypted. There's no account, no cloud, no analytics, and no ads. TALK, SHOW, ASK • Chat with Apple Intelligence or a downloaded open model (MiniCPM, Granite, Gemma or Qwen), running on the iPhone's own chip. • Voice mode: a hands-free conversation with natural on-device speech. • Show Stealth: point the camera and ask. It answers in a few words. • Open it from the Action button, Control Center, the Lock Screen, widgets or Siri. REMEMBERS WHAT MATTERS — WITH YOUR CONSENT • Stealth can remember your preferences, projects and people, and only brings them up when they're relevant. • Review, pin or delete any memory. YOUR FILES AND RECORDINGS • Import PDFs, notes and text; Stealth knows every file you added, answers from them and cites the passage. • Share pages, text, photos and PDFs from any app straight into Stealth. • Private recorder: record a meeting or lecture, get a live transcript and a summary with action items, then ask about it later. It keeps recording with the screen locked. GETS THINGS DONE • "Remind me to call mom tomorrow at 9", "add dentist Friday 3pm", "set a 10 minute timer". You confirm each one first. • "What's on my calendar tomorrow?" is answered from your calendar, on the device. TRANSLATE, OFFLINE • Translate text, signs and menus through the camera, photos, and face-to-face conversations, on your iPhone. • Uses Apple's on-device translation, or a downloadable translation model (Hy-MT2 or TranslateGemma, 55 languages including Romanian), never the chat model. • Translated text appears right over the original in photos and the live camera. OFFLINE MAPS FOR HIKING AND OFF-ROAD • Download a region once (Romania available now): streets, every trail and track, marked hiking routes, terrain shading and contour lines, all offline. • Trails coloured by difficulty, tracks by grade, 4×4-only tracks highlighted. • Find the nearest water, shelter, mountain hut, peak or help without signal. • Record hikes and drives with distance, climb and time; import and export GPX. • 3D: fly over your route on real terrain, with an elevation profile. COMMS: TALK WITHOUT A NETWORK (OPTIONAL) • Nearby mesh: message people around you over Bluetooth, relayed phone to phone, with no signal. Works with the bitchat app too. • Online via Tor: end-to-end encrypted messages to your contacts anywhere, always routed through Tor. • SOS with your position to everyone nearby. Off until you turn it on; no account or phone number. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL • Survival Core (optional download): 23 validated field guides on first aid, water, food, shelter, navigation, building, power and radio. Answers cite the page. • Wikipedia Medicine (optional): 58,000 medical articles as offline text. • Field Kit: an emergency screen with first-aid cards, GPS coordinates, compass, sunrise and sunset, and an SOS flashlight. PRIVATE BY DESIGN — WE NEVER COLLECT YOUR DATA • Stealth collects no data at all: no account, no servers, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. • AES-256 encryption for every chat, memory, file and recording. • Face ID lock. • Network ledger: see every download Stealth has made, with the bytes measured. Stealth goes online only to download a model, pack or map you chose, or for Comms if you turn it on, always through Tor. Answers can be wrong and aren't professional advice. In an emergency, contact emergency services when you can.
Control
Engage in private AI conversations with lightweight, open-source language models that run entirely on your device. Enjoy offline functionality and complete data protection without any data collection or sharing. Choose and switch between models to find the best AI assistant for your needs.
- Private AI conversations
- Local LLM processing
- Offline functionality
- Data privacy
- Model selection
- No account required
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Your AI conversations with complete privacy. Control is a free LLM interface that puts you in charge of your AI experience. Chat with lightweight open source language models while keeping your data completely private. These mobile-optimized models offer basic AI assistance with the trade-off of complete privacy and offline functionality - everything runs locally on your device. This is a basic tool. Privacy & Data Protection: All processing happens on your device with no data collection or sharing. Your conversations never leave your phone and no accounts, logins, or cloud storage are required. Works completely offline with zero network dependencies for chat, no tracking or analytics. Your data stays yours and history resets after every session or 24 hours, whichever comes first, ensuring no persistent data storage. Choice: Choose from various open source language models and switch between models instantly to find the perfect AI assistant for your specific needs. Free and open source with no subscriptions or hidden costs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Control at 18.5 against Stealth's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Stealth ships an update every 4 days, Control every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stealth | Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cosmin Gabriel Ciocirlan | Carlos Tarrats |
In-app purchases
Stealth
No in-app purchases
Control
No in-app purchases









