Comparison

Control vs PushOS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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.

About

PushOS

Features
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One place for everything you save — reels, shorts, posts, threads, videos and long articles, from every app on your phone. Tap a saved video and it plays right there in the card. What you save on your phone is on your iPad and your Mac too. Most of what you want to come back to is scattered: saved in one app, favourited in another, bookmarked in a third, sitting in a watch-later list, or in a browser tab you never closed. None of those folders can search each other. PushOS is the one place you put all of it. IT PLAYS HERE • Tap a saved video and it plays inside the card — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram posts and reels, video posts on X, video posts on Reddit • Playback runs in that platform's own embedded player. Nothing is downloaded, and nothing loads until you tap • If a creator has turned embedding off, or the platform asks you to sign in, PushOS says so in one line and offers to open it there instead EVERY SOURCE KEEPS ITS SHAPE • Reddit threads keep their votes, flair and photo galleries • X posts render as posts; TikToks keep their creator and caption • GitHub repos show stars and language; arXiv shows authors • YouTube saves the transcript, so you can read the video • Articles are extracted in full — no ads, no sidebars • Tracking parameters are stripped from links on the way in ASK YOUR OWN LIBRARY • Type a question in Search — "what have I saved about sourdough?" — and get an answer built only from your own saves • A broad question comes back as a short take plus named themes, with the saves behind each; a specific one quotes the passage it used • Every citation is numbered by save and tappable — it opens the save it came from • Ask a single save on its own, or keep an answer as a note with its sources attached • Needs a device with Apple Intelligence; on other devices PushOS shows you the matching passages instead TOPICS, WORKED OUT ON YOUR DEVICE • Once you have 50 saves, PushOS groups your library into topics — "AI agents", "Cooking", "3D printing" — and tells you how many saves it still needs before then • Rename a topic and it stays renamed. Refresh it whenever you like READ, HIGHLIGHT, KEEP • A reader with six typefaces and adjustable size and spacing • Highlight in five colours, add notes, copy quotes • A notebook for every save, and a Highlights tab across all of them • Export as Markdown for Obsidian or your notes app • Read aloud, or translate on device IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC • Four tabs on iPhone: Today, Library, Highlights and Search. Search is one field that searches and asks • The full sidebar on iPad: Sources, Topics, Collections and your own tags • A real Mac app — sidebar, list and reader side by side, a window per save, a global keyboard shortcut • One purchase covers all three, kept in sync through your own iCloud. No account to create • Light, dark or system, one tap away on every device HOW IT WORKS 1. Share a link to PushOS from any app. Pin PushOS to the top of your share sheet and it is three taps — PushOS shows you how on first run 2. It arrives as a card with its title, picture and source 3. Tap it to play, read, highlight, or ask about it later PRIVACY Search, topics and the words read out of your images happen on your device. When an answer has to be written it comes from Apple's Foundation Models — on your device, or Apple's Private Cloud Compute, which keeps nothing and even Apple cannot read — and every answer says which one wrote it. Only the passages it quotes are sent; never your library, links, highlights or notes. No PushOS accounts, no PushOS servers. Sync is your own private iCloud. Free to download, with your first 50 saves included. Unlock unlimited saving with one purchase — no subscription, ever. Everything you have saved stays readable, searchable and yours. PushOS is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub or any other service named here. Those names describe where your own saved links came from.

Screenshots

Control3 screens
PushOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

Control and PushOS are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control ships an update every 5 days, PushOS every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Control versus PushOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlPushOS
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.518.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB13 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperCarlos TarratsEunoia Collective

In-app purchases

None

Control

No in-app purchases

None

PushOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PushOS free?
PushOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Control or PushOS have ads?
Neither Control nor PushOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control or PushOS?
Control ships an update every 5 days, and PushOS every 3 days. Most recently, Control was updated on October 14, 2026 and PushOS on October 8, 2026.

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