Comparison

Control vs Offin

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Control4 screens
Offin4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control ships an update every 3 days, Offin weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Control versus Offin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlOffin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex Patrick PalaceanRADIX IT TECH INC

Customer experience

Control

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive95.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.3%

Offin

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Control

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

Offin

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Offin free?
Offin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Control or Offin?
Offin is rated higher. Control averages 4.3 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Offin averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Control or Offin have ads?
Neither Control nor Offin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control or Offin?
Control ships an update every 3 days, and Offin weekly. Most recently, Control was updated on October 16, 2026 and Offin on September 26, 2026.

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