Control vs Boop Budget Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Control
An elegant budgeting app designed for clarity and control over your finances. It offers features like voice transaction entry, bill splitting, and AI-powered financial insights. Track expenses, manage multiple jobs, and monitor investments with beautiful reports.
- Apple Pay transaction import
- Voice transaction entry
- Split bills
- AI-powered financial insights
- Investment tracking
- Shared budgets
- Receipt scanning
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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/
Boop Budget Tracker
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Boop Budget Tracker at 5.0 against Control's 4.2. Boop Budget Tracker also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). Control's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Control sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Boop Budget Tracker sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Boop Budget Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Control has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Control ships an update every 3 days, Boop Budget Tracker daily. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Control | Boop Budget Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Patrick Palacean | Zeus Solomon Olivar |
Customer experience
Control
Boop Budget Tracker
In-app purchases
Control
- Control Monthly$3.991 Month
- Control Club$3.991 Month
- Lifetime payment$17.99
Boop Budget Tracker
- Parol Festival Header$0.99
- Cozy Rooftop Header$0.99
- Pastel Space Header$0.99
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- Sakura Breeze Header$0.99
- Custom Photo Header$0.99
- Beach Day Header$0.99
- Island Lagoon Header$0.99
- Coin Garden Header$0.99
- Coffee-Sized Tip$2.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Taco-Sized Tip$4.99
- All Headers + No Ads$5.99
- Pizza-Sized Tip$7.99







