Control vs Offin
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/
Offin
This app helps you track expenses and manage your budget privately on your iPhone. It uses on-device AI to categorize transactions from imported bank statements or voice input, eliminating the need for bank logins or subscriptions.
- On-device AI transaction categorization
- Import bank statements (PDF/CSV)
- Apple Pay transaction logging
- Voice input for transactions
- Customizable categories and rules
- Net worth, spending, and budget tracking
- Offline functionality
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Offin is a private budget and expense tracker that runs 100% on your iPhone. Import your bank statements as PDF or CSV — on-device AI categorizes months of history in seconds. No bank login. No subscription. PAY ONCE. OWN IT FOREVER. No monthly fees, no annual renewals, no "premium" upsell. One purchase unlocks everything, for life. STOP TYPING TRANSACTIONS BY HAND Other trackers make you enter every coffee manually. Offin gives you four faster ways in: → Import bank statements — drop in PDF or CSV statements from your bank and watch months of history appear in seconds. → Tap with Apple Pay — purchases logged automatically via Shortcuts. No bank link, no credentials shared. → Just say it — voice input turns "twelve dollars at Chipotle" into a categorized transaction. → Type it — quick manual entry when you want it. AI THAT WORKS WITHOUT THE INTERNET Offin categorizes every transaction with an on-device machine learning model built for US spending — and uses Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones. Nothing ever leaves your phone. Don't agree with a category? Create your own categories and set custom rules, and Offin follows your system automatically from then on. SEE EXACTLY WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES → Net worth graph, daily spending, and monthly reviews on one home screen → Budgets with live progress → Upcoming bills and cash flow, so nothing surprises you → Insights with spending and savings charts, top merchants, and trends → Every account in one activity feed with powerful search and filters → Detailed per-account views PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE, NOT BY PROMISE Most finance apps ask you to hand over your bank credentials to a third-party aggregator. Offin never connects to your bank at all. Your data lives in one place — your phone — protected by Face ID. It works with no internet connection, because it never needs one. WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who wants a real budget and expense tracker without surrendering bank logins, paying rent on their own data, or becoming the product. Download Offin. Import a statement. Know your money in five minutes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Offin at 5.0 against Control's 4.3. Control's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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 Offin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Offin holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Control has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Control's written reviews are positive against 100% of Offin's.
Control ships an update every 3 days, Offin weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Control | Offin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Patrick Palacean | RADIX IT TECH INC |
Customer experience
Control
Offin
In-app purchases
Control
- Control Monthly$3.991 Month
- Control Club$3.991 Month
- Lifetime payment$14.99
Offin
- Lifetime Unlock$9.99









