Comparison

Control vs Just Plan

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

Head to head
About

Control

This app helps you build discipline and focus by tracking daily habits. It offers simple logging, detailed analytics to understand your performance, and a privacy-first design with data stored locally.

Highlights
  • One-tap habit logging
  • In-depth analytics
  • Privacy-first design
  • Track meditation and deep work
  • Self-improvement focus
Features
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Build better habits and reach your goals — one step at a time. Control is your personal habit and goal tracker designed to help you build good habits, break bad ones, and make steady progress toward your goals every day. BUILD GOOD HABITS • 4 tracking modes: one-tap check-ins, timer, stopwatch, and counter. • Multiple daily check-ins: log your progress several times a day — perfect for tracking water intake, stretching, or taking vitamins. • Built-in templates: fitness, meditation, reading, sleep routines, and more. • Flexible schedules: every day, specific days of the week, custom intervals (like 3 days on / 1 day off), or specific days each month. • Smart reminders: get gentle reminders right when it’s time for an important habit or task. BREAK BAD HABITS • Clean streak counter: track the time since your last slip down to the minute. • Slip insights: record slips with notes to identify your triggers. • Built-in templates: quit smoking, alcohol, sugar, fast food, social media, and gaming. STATISTICS THAT KEEP YOU MOTIVATED • Streaks & records: keep your streaks alive and beat your personal best. • Visual insights: activity calendar, completion statistics, and monthly trends. • Slip analysis: identify high-risk days and peak hours for bad habits. FULL CUSTOMIZATION • Hundreds of stylish icons and emojis, curated color palettes, and custom colors. • Dark, light, and system themes for a comfortable experience anytime. • Easily organize your habits with simple drag-and-drop. PRIVACY & SECURITY • No sign-up required: download the app and start tracking right away. • Your data, your control: easily export and import your data anytime. • Reliable protection for your personal data. Control is free to use with no limit on the number of habits. Upgrade to Advanced to unlock unlimited timers and counters, flexible custom cycles, detailed monthly planning, and in-depth analytics. Start building better habits today with Control. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Just Plan

This app presents your day as a single flow, eliminating multiple task lists. It offers smart reminders, a visual weekly overview, and seamless iCloud synchronization across Apple devices. Your data remains private, with no servers or ads involved.

Highlights
  • Single daily task flow
  • Smart reminders
  • Weekly overview
  • iCloud sync
  • Repeating tasks
  • Subtasks
  • Templates
Features
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Just Plan does not show a list of tasks. It shows one flow of your day. DAY FEED Every task from every folder lands in a single feed: overdue, today, tomorrow, this week, later, no date. You no longer walk through five lists to find out what today looks like. The folder is just a coloured mark on the card. Swipe right to complete, swipe left to reschedule. SMART REMINDERS • Morning digest — one notification instead of ten: how many tasks today, how many overdue. • Timed reminders only for tasks that actually have a time. • Quiet hours: a notification that falls into the quiet interval is moved to an allowed time instead of being lost. • Persistent reminder: for an important task, repeat the alert every N minutes until it is done. • Snooze for 15 minutes straight from the notification, without opening the app. WEEK Seven days side by side: you can see that Tuesday is overloaded and Thursday is empty. Drag a task from one day to another. SYNC THROUGH YOUR OWN iCLOUD Tasks, folders, subtasks, templates and settings are the same on every Apple device signed in to the same Apple ID. No sign-up, no login, no password: it works with the Apple ID you are already using. Offline the app works exactly as before, and your edits find the other devices once you are back online. Edited the same task on two devices? Changes are merged, not overwritten. You can turn sync off at any time. ALSO INSIDE • Repeating tasks: daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, yearly or a custom interval. • Subtasks with progress. • Folders with their own colour and emoji. • Four priority levels and labels. • Search by title and note. • Templates for tasks you create again and again. • Completion statistics. • Trash: deleted items are kept for 30 days. • Export and import as a file — a backup and a way to move to a new phone. • Light and dark theme, English and Russian. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Sync runs through your own iCloud. The app has no server of its own, and the developer never sees your tasks. No account, no sign-up, no password. No analytics, no tracking, no ads. With sync switched off the app does not touch the cloud at all. The backup is an ordinary file, and you decide where to keep it. Two permissions in total: showing notifications, and putting the app's own files into your iCloud storage. No camera, no location, no contacts, no microphone. Free, with no in-app purchases, subscriptions or ads.

Screenshots

Control4 screens
Just Plan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Just Plan at weekly against Control's every 3 weeks. Just Plan also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Control against 5.0 for Just Plan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control ships an update every 3 weeks, Just Plan weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Control versus Just Plan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlJust Plan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarat KairbekovAlexey Zhirov

Customer experience

Control

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Just Plan

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Control

No in-app purchases

None

Just Plan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Just Plan free?
Just Plan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Control or Just Plan?
Control and Just Plan are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Control or Just Plan have ads?
Neither Control nor Just Plan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control or Just Plan?
Control ships an update every 3 weeks, and Just Plan weekly. Most recently, Control was updated on October 31, 2026 and Just Plan on October 31, 2026.

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