Pit.Kit vs Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pit.Kit
Capture thoughts, ideas, and information quickly and easily. Organize your notes with tags, reminders, and search, or let AI assist you. Keep your information accessible and private, even offline.
- Quick thought capture via chat interface
- Support for text, photos, videos, voice notes, documents, locations, and links
- Search, tag, and date-based organization
- Reminders and nudges
- AI assistant for help and content understanding
- Offline note-taking
- Customizable entries and AI personalization (Pro)
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Thoughts rarely arrive neatly organized. And they don’t tend to wait around. I made Pit.Kit because I wanted somewhere to put a thought down as easily as I’d send a message to a friend. I kept getting caught up in organizing a note before I’d finished having the thought. Sometimes I lost it along the way. So I built the thing I wanted: open a chat, send whatever’s in your head, done. Make a chat for a trip, a project, or just “random stuff.” Drop in text, photos, videos, voice notes, documents, locations, or links shared from other apps. Each thought can be as short, messy, or unfinished as it needs to be. You don’t have to give every note a title or make it fit a template. Just put it down. When you need something again, search your notes, follow a tag, or jump to a date. Mark things done and filter what still needs your attention. Add a reminder to a note, keeping the original thought right there with it. Add nudges when one reminder might not be enough. There are quicker ways in, too. Create reminders through Siri or Shortcuts, open the reminder composer from your Lock Screen or Control Center, and use widgets to see what’s coming up. Then there’s Notty, the little helper you’ll find around the app. Ask how something works, get help rewording a note, or ask about the notes in a chat. Notty can also find reminders and prepare changes for you to review. You confirm before it changes your saved notes or reminders. Notty’s AI runs on your device. On supported devices, it can use Apple Intelligence. Pro adds Expanded Intelligence, a downloadable on-device model for deeper reasoning, broader language support, and understanding photos you ask about. With Pro, you can also turn on personalization so Notty’s replies take your preferences and note habits into account. Pro also adds Custom Entries: optional rating and measurement inputs you can set up inside a chat. Rate a coffee, log a measurement, and keep those entries alongside your ordinary notes. Your notes are stored on your device first, so you can keep capturing without an internet connection. Optional private iCloud backups help you recover them later. Pit.Kit collects usage and crash diagnostics to help improve the app. Your note contents, attachments, and conversations with Notty stay out of those diagnostics. Your notes stay yours. No feed. No followers. No workspace to set up. Just somewhere to put things down before they get away. Custom Entries, Expanded Intelligence, Notty personalization, and widget customization require a Pit.Kit Pro subscription, available in-app. Expanded Intelligence also requires a model download. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://isapps.app/pitkit-privacy
Control
Consolidate your daily trackers, planners, and reminders into a single, elegant app. Monitor habits, budgets, fitness, and more directly from your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or Live Activities. Enjoy a private experience with all data stored locally and synced via iCloud.
- 20+ customizable iOS widgets
- Track habits, budget, fitness, and more
- Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Live Activities support
- Private data storage on device
- iCloud sync across devices
- No sign-ups or dark patterns
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Your Home Screen, redesigned. Control is a library of 20+ beautifully crafted iOS widgets - every tracker, planner, and reminder you actually use, gathered in one app. Habits, budget, fitness, medication, birthdays, travel, and much more, all glanceable from your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Live Activities. No more juggling ten single-purpose apps. No sign-ups, no dark patterns. - TRACK EVERYTHING - • Habits - daily routines, streaks, goals • Budget - spending, savings, monthly limits • Subscriptions - see exactly what's recurring and when • Portfolio - track your investments • Debt - loans and credit cards, payoff progress • Currency - live exchange rates between any two currencies • Fitness - steps, workouts, calories burned via Apple Health • Calories - daily intake, weight goals • Period - cycle tracking with predictions • Medication - dose reminders for every prescription • Birthdays - pulled from Contacts, never forget another one • Books - what you're reading, with auto-fetched covers • Movies - your watchlist with poster art • Pets - feeding, walks, vet visits • Vehicle - mileage, services, fuel logs • Hotel & Travel - live check-out countdowns and trip dashboards • Past Trips - a souvenir of where you've been • Food Expiration - what's in your fridge and when it spoils • Game Tracker - leaderboards plus a multi-touch player picker • Speedometer - live drive sessions • Clipboard - quick-paste from history • To-do - checklists that sync across devices • Quit Tracker - sober days, money saved, life regained - PRIVATE BY DEFAULT - Everything is stored on your device and synced privately through your own iCloud account. No external servers. No tracking. No analytics SDKs. Your habits, finances, and reminders are yours. Control is built for people who want their Home Screen to do something useful. - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pit.Kit at 5.0 against Control's 4.5. Pit.Kit also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). Control's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Pit.Kit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Control sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pit.Kit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Pit.Kit ships an update every 9 days, Control every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pit.Kit | Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Idan Yehuda Schechter | Alex Patrick Palacean |
Customer experience
Pit.Kit
Control
In-app purchases
Pit.Kit
- Professional (monthly)$2.491 Month
- Professional (yearly)$14.991 Year
- Professional for life$29.99
Control
- Control Lifetime$9.99









