Comparison

Control vs Boop Budget Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Control

Effortlessly manage your money with an intuitive and visually appealing budgeting app. Track expenses, monitor investments, and gain financial insights with AI assistance. Features include automatic transaction import, bill splitting, and customizable reports.

Highlights
  • Automatic transaction import
  • AI-powered financial insights
  • Bill splitting
  • Investment tracking
  • Customizable budgets
  • Receipt scanning
  • Travel and business expense tracking
Features
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Control is an elegant budgeting app designed for clarity without complexity. Its beautifully crafted interface makes managing finances feel magical. • Apple Pay transaction import • Bank notification transaction import • Add transactions by voice • Split bills when adding a transaction • Groceries list with Live Activity • Travel Mode for trip expense tracking • Work page to track hours, shifts, and pay across multiple jobs • Net worth and portfolio tracking, with prices you update yourself • Live Activities and Dynamic Island support • Ask AI - instant financial insights powered by AI • Apple Watch • Business page • Credit cards • Debt tracker • Past trips page • Wishlist shopping page • Quit Tracker for breaking habits • Interest rate for your bank deposits • Receipt scanning with camera • Add transactions by sharing a receipt, email, or webpage • Monthly/weekly/yearly and category budgets with visual progress • Investments transactions • Beautiful reports and spending insights • Wrapped - your year in review summary • Recurring payments and installment tracking • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Multiple currency support with conversion • Tags for organizing transactions • Siri Shortcuts • Custom budget start day • Rollover budget • Photos for transactions • Custom budget start day • Variable recurring payments amount • Appearance customization with themes and gradients • iCloud backup • Face ID • No ads, no tracking, no data collection Take control of your finances today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Boop Budget Tracker

Track expenses, savings, and bills with this free personal finance manager. Log transactions quickly, monitor spending, and never miss a payment. Features include multi-currency support, shared groups for bill splitting, and customizable budgets.

Highlights
  • Expense and income logging
  • Multi-currency support
  • Bill reminders and tracking
  • Budget creation by category
  • Shared groups for bill splitting
  • Savings goals and debt tracking
  • Net worth calculation
Features
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Boop is a free budget and expense tracker for your spending, savings and bills, with a friendly corgi and black cat by your side. Log every peso in seconds, see where your salary went, and never miss a due date. No subscriptions, no account, no bank logins. Works with any currency, in any country. NEW IN BOOP 3.7, BUILT FROM YOUR IDEAS - Boop on Apple Watch: log an expense right from your wrist - Log from a screenshot: press the Action Button and Apple Intelligence fills in the expense, saved with its receipt - Shared groups: split bills with friends, family or your partner, see who owes whom, and settle up - Grow Your Money: a 50/30/20 planner for needs, wants and savings, with your own goals - Flip your card: keep account details, notes and photos on the back, with one-tap copy - Back up to Google Drive, plus a backup file you can keep anywhere - Hide amounts everywhere, or hide just one wallet - Interest that follows your bank's daily balance, like GoTyme and MariBank - Invoices with partial payments, live exchange rates, and the Insights circle is back TRACK EVERY PESO - Log expenses and income in seconds with the built-in calculator - Wallets for cash, banks, e-wallets, savings, debit and credit cards - Split one purchase across categories, and pay from any wallet or card - Scan receipts and price tags to fill in the amount - Multi-currency with live rates: PHP, USD, EUR, JPY and 150+ more BUDGETS THAT FIT YOUR PAYDAY - Budgets by category with daily, weekly, semi-monthly, monthly or yearly cycles - Money Plan: zero-based or forecast, and give every peso a job - Boop Cart: a live grocery budget while you shop NEVER MISS A BILL - Upcoming bills on Home, with reminders for every bill, card and debt - Weekly, monthly, quarterly or custom repeats, and one-time bills - Missed bills stay Overdue until you mark them CREDIT CARDS AND PAY LATER - Statement cycles with the amount actually due - Installments that record themselves, with interest and fees - Pay Later cards like SPayLater, Atome and GGives SAVINGS, DEBTS AND NET WORTH - Savings goals that celebrate with you, and an MP2 tracker - Debts and money owed to you, with partial payments - Stocks and crypto with live prices, plus MP2, Pag-IBIG and other investments - Net worth across everything you own and owe INSIGHTS IN PLAIN WORDS See where your money went, what changed and what's unusual, and get a monthly recap story on the 1st. Ask Boop questions about your money, answered on your iPhone. FREE, WITH OPTIONAL EXTRAS Boop is free and shows ads. No subscriptions. Optional one-time purchases: header themes, the All Headers bundle (which removes ads), Remove Ads, and tips for the solo developer. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account and no sign-up - No bank logins or bank linking - Your records stay on your device and in your own iCloud (and your own Google Drive, if you turn it on) Made by a solo developer in the Philippines who reads every idea on the Feedback & Roadmap board.

Screenshots

Control4 screens
Boop Budget Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Boop Budget Tracker at 5.0 against Control's 4.4. Boop Budget Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Control's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and device support 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. Control sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Boop Budget Tracker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boop Budget Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Control has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Control's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boop Budget Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control ships an update every 4 days, Boop Budget Tracker every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Control versus Boop Budget Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlBoop Budget Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (13 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex Patrick PalaceanZeus Solomon Olivar

Customer experience

Control

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive96.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.4%

Boop Budget Tracker

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Control

Subscriptions1
  • Control Monthly$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime payment$17.99
10 purchases

Boop Budget Tracker

One-time10
  • Starry Camping Header$0.99
  • Night Market Header$0.99
  • Rice Terraces Header$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Coral Reef Header$0.99
  • Lavender Fields Header$0.99
  • Floating Islands Header$0.99
  • Aurora Lake Header$0.99
  • Bamboo Zen Header$0.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • All Headers + No Ads$5.99

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Boop Budget Tracker free?
Boop Budget Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Control or Boop Budget Tracker?
Boop Budget Tracker is rated higher. Control averages 4.4 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Boop Budget Tracker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Control or Boop Budget Tracker have ads?
Boop Budget Tracker shows ads; Control does not.
Which is updated more often, Control or Boop Budget Tracker?
Control ships an update every 4 days, and Boop Budget Tracker every 2 days. Most recently, Control was updated on November 9, 2026 and Boop Budget Tracker on November 9, 2026.

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