Comparison

Control vs Recurrs

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Apple Pay transaction import
  • Voice transaction entry
  • Split bills
  • AI-powered financial insights
  • Investment tracking
  • Shared budgets
  • Receipt scanning
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

Recurrs

Features
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Recurrs is the best subscription and budgeting tool due to its quick AI features, and automations. The app features good Siri integrations. The AI is powered by Gemini, Google's own model that powers AI features in gmail and other google apps. The core of the app is subscription tracking. This involves tracking the time when a subscription renews, what it costs, converting different currencies into home currency, and having the proper cycle count. The free trails tracking is a game changer for this app and for your finance. If you want to save money, the first step is to make sure that you don’t pay for the free trails. The app features a way for you to track and then the app also sends a notification two days before so that you don’t lose that cash. The budgeting tools are really good as well. The budget limit sets a limit for each month so that you don’t cross it. And let’s say that you want that shiny new iPhone or iPad, but you don’t know how to save or preserve your income to save up. That’s where saving goals come in. Set aside a percentage each month and the app keeps it aside from your income and expenses so that one day you can afford that new product. There’s also a way to import your existing data of tracking from google sheets, or any spreadsheet software, csv files or even your bank statement. The on device processing ensures that no human or bot can ever steal your data. There’s also a Gmail scan feature that allows the bills in your inbox to be tracked automatically. Newsletters that guide you on finance and tips on saving money come each month. You can also keep a track of all your items that you may want to sell. In the future the app will tell you how much an item is worth as well. Widgets are a great view to view your expenses at a glance. The widgets include a summary of your budget, quickly adding expenses, graphs, free trails that are active and much much more. Our AI financial advisor is the best in class compared to other apps of the same class. It gives a detailed report of your spending and suggests ways to save it. Payment methods and Profiles offer an easy way of organizing your spending. Add different payment methods to track the money and which methods get used a lot. Offered methods are Cards, credit cards, cash, Apple pay and much more. Sharing is caring. We believe in that, so the app got a massive overhaul in sharing. Let’s say you bought the new GTA, and you split the costs with your homies, the app lets you add your friends and family and lets you split the costs with them. If you’re a parent, you know you add pocket money, for them it’s an income, but for you it’s an expense. Hence the app has a feature when you’re adding an expense, you can set it so that it becomes an expense for you and an income for your child or kids. Some other features include, quickly adding via control centre or action button, adding gift cards that your grandma gave or that amazon coupon you forgot about but the app reminded you and much much more. What are you waiting for? Stop overpaying, save money and be responsible by using Recurrs. Track anywhere like in an Uber or while looking at the maps for the nearest starbucks. Privacy Policy: https://figoapp.net/apps/privacypol Terms of service: https://figoapp.net/apps/tos

Screenshots

Control4 screens
Recurrs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Control at every 3 days against Recurrs's every 2 months. Control also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26). On price, ads, 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 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Recurrs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control ships an update every 3 days, Recurrs every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Control versus Recurrs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlRecurrs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.0 — better26
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex Patrick PalaceanRaam Anand

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Control

Subscriptions2
  • Control Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Control Club$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime payment$14.99
2 purchases

Recurrs

Subscriptions2
  • Pro membership monthly$0.991 Month
  • Pro membership yearly$7.991 Year

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recurrs free?
Recurrs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Control or Recurrs have ads?
Neither Control nor Recurrs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control or Recurrs?
Control ships an update every 3 days, and Recurrs every 2 months. Most recently, Control was updated on October 20, 2026 and Recurrs on October 13, 2026.

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