Comparison

Control vs Hub

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

Head to head
About

Control

Features
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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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Hub

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Hub client for your Hub ecosystem Free and open source. No data is collected. Hub never sends anything to our servers. No AI was used to make it. - Compress images - Compress videos - Use on-device translation powered by Apple Intelligence - Chat with Apple Intelligence - Detect sensitive content in images and videos Have multiple Apple devices? Let them split the load! Translate 1000 lines of text in seconds across 5 devices! It's just a start. A lot more capabilities will come soon! For content makers: Use all of your old and new devices to split video/image compression load, translate your captions to multiple languages For app/website developers: Don't need to spend money on processing servers when you have an old iPhone that is still very capable! You have 100 Macs in your office sitting idle most of the time? Just make them work for your server! - Add live translation for your server just by leaving a single device on - Simplify your moderation by letting your device detect sensitive content uploaded by users - Compress images and videos your users upload - Set up a basic LLM for your needs Upgrade to Hub Pro (for free ofc) for following security features: - Uses asymmetric key stored in your keychain - Create permission groups and assign any connection to them - Enable Lockdown Mode to lock your Hub from any unauthorized connection Join our Discord and let's start building Hub

Screenshots

Control3 screens
Hub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Control at 2 against Hub's โ€”. On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Control versus Hub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlHub
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysโ€”
AdsNoโ€”
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betterโ€”
Requires iOS18.517.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size9 MB6 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperCarlos TarratsDmitry Kozlov

In-app purchases

None

Control

No in-app purchases

None

Hub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hub free?
Hub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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