Control vs Anzi
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/
Anzi
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Your bank app shows you a chart. It tells you what you spent. It never asks if it was worth it. Anzi does. One question, every morning. Five seconds. — HOW IT WORKS — • Log it. Add a purchase in two taps: the amount and what it was. No receipts, no syncing, no setup. • Rate it. The next morning, Anzi shows you what you bought yesterday and asks: was it worth it? Joy, meh or regret. One tap each. A night's sleep makes the answer honest. • See it. Your week and your month on one card: the total, day by day, split into joy, meh and regret. A quiet summary arrives every Sunday and at the end of each month. — THINK BEFORE YOU BUY — • Wait on it. Want something? Park it in a 48-hour or 7-day cool-down. When it ends, Anzi asks: still want it? Let it go, and watch your "not spent" total grow. • Return reminders. Not sure about something you bought? Set the return deadline. Anzi reminds you two days before and on the last day. • Memories. Twice a week, a past joy or regret comes back: do you remember this? Would you still buy it today? — LITTLE THINGS — • Photos of the receipt or the thing itself, and a souvenirs album • Gentle reminders at lunch and dinner that learn when you usually log • A home-screen widget with today's total • Share cards: your week, one purchase or a want you let go, as a picture for your Story • App lock with Face ID or fingerprint, free • Back up to a file and import it on a new phone • English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Russian • Any currency, CSV export, delete everything in one tap — WHAT ANZI IS NOT — Not a budgeting app. Not an expense tracker. No bank connections, no categories to manage, no budgets to blow. No spreadsheets, and no AI telling you to cut your coffee. Anzi never touches your accounts and never asks for a password to your money. — PRIVATE BY DESIGN — Everything stays on your phone. There is no account, no cloud, no server and no analytics. We collect nothing because there is nothing to collect. Your spending is yours alone. — WHY "ANZI" — It's an Italian word that doesn't translate cleanly: "on the contrary. Actually. Wait." As in: "I thought I needed it. Anzi, I didn't." That feeling is the whole app. Spend less time tracking. Spend more like you mean it. Privacy: https://anzi.app/legal/privacy.html Terms: https://anzi.app/legal/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Anzi at none against Control's 3. Anzi also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Control's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Anzi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Control ships an update every 3 days, Anzi every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Control | Anzi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 96.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Patrick Palacean | OSSAMA FADILI |
In-app purchases
Control
- Control Monthly$3.991 Month
- Control Club$3.991 Month
- Lifetime payment$17.99
Anzi
No in-app purchases









