Comparison

Ctrl V vs Puff Drop

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

Head to head
About

Ctrl V

This app helps you build better habits and improve emotional well-being through guided journeys, mood tracking, journaling, and AI support. It offers tools for self-reflection, personal growth, and connecting with a supportive community.

Highlights
  • 90-Day guided growth journey
  • Daily mood check-ins and tracking
  • Journaling and private reflections
  • Breathing, meditation, and manifestation audio
  • AI companion for reflection
  • Community support features
  • Emergency contact access
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Ctrl V is a self-growth, habit-change, and emotional support app designed to help you reflect, reset old patterns, and build steadier daily habits. Inside Ctrl V, you can explore a guided 90-day growth journey, daily prayer, daily mood check-ins, Reparent Your Inner Child with July, short learning reflections, journaling, breathing exercises, meditation, community support, dopamine detox, and an AI companion called Heaver. Ctrl V is designed for people working on unwanted habits, digital overuse, emotional loops, self-reflection, accountability, and personal behavior-change goals. The app provides supportive tools for reflection and daily growth, not medical treatment. Key features: • 90-Day Journey Follow a structured growth path with weekly story content, reflection moments, and progress-based unlocks. • Daily Prayer Take a quiet moment with God each day through guided prayer and calming audio — helping you bring your struggles to Him, reflect, reset, and keep moving forward with faith. • Mood Check-ins Record your daily mood, build self-awareness, and track emotional patterns over time. • Reparent Your Inner Child with July Build a bond with July across your 90-day journey. Show up for her, care for her, make small choices together, and watch her grow — while learning to give your younger self the safety, patience, and care you may have needed growing up. • Dopamine Detox Take part in a guided Dopamine Detox journey, choose from built-in habit challenges, or create a personal challenge based on your own goals. Record completed actions and build greater consistency through small daily steps. • Streaks and Progress Celebrate daily check-ins, track your consistency, and stay connected to your growth journey. • Learning Archive Read short guided lessons designed for reflection, clarity, and steady growth. • Journal Write private reflections, reasons for change, and personal notes. • Breathing, Meditation, and Manifestation Use calming tools and audio experiences to support daily regulation, focus, and reflection. • Community Share posts, comment, like, boost, and connect with others through safety-aware community features. • Heaver AI Companion Chat with a supportive AI companion designed to help you reflect, organize your thoughts, and explore gentle next steps. • Emergency Numbers Quickly access emergency and support numbers by country, with optional location-based country suggestion. Important: Ctrl V is not a medical provider, therapist, psychiatrist, crisis service, emergency service, or substitute for professional care. Heaver and other app features are supportive self-reflection tools only. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent help, contact local emergency services or a qualified professional. Subscription: Ctrl V may offer Premium membership plans for access to the full app experience. Payment is handled through the App Store. Subscription availability and pricing may vary by region. Privacy Policy: https://thectrlv.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://thectrlv.app/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Puff Drop

Features
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Puff Drop makes every puff visible — then quietly makes your daily limit smaller until you reach zero, on your terms. One big tap. That's the habit. Tap once per puff. Haptic, instant, with undo. Log a whole session with +5 / +10 / +20 if you don't tap every time. Add a puff from the Lock Screen, Control Center or your wrist without opening the app. A limit that shrinks on its own. Tell Puff Drop roughly how much you vape and pick a quit date. Your daily limit starts where you are today and steps down a little each day. Not sure where you are? Track for three days first and let the numbers set your starting point. Streaks you can see. Every day under your limit adds to the streak. Go over and the app says so plainly — "Over by 3 today" — no lectures, no guilt. Money and puffs back in your pocket. Enter what a pod or disposable costs and Puff Drop shows what you've saved, how many puffs you've avoided and how much nicotine you've skipped — in your currency, updated as you go. A timer for the hard minutes. When a craving hits, open the 3-minute breathing ring. Tap "It passed" and it's logged as a craving beaten. Tap "I vaped" and nothing is hidden from you. Milestone cards worth sharing. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1,000 puffs avoided, 50 cravings passed — every milestone becomes a clean card you can post or keep. Widgets, Control Center and Apple Watch. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with a +1 button. A Control Center button for the fastest possible tap. An Apple Watch app with today's ring, the craving timer and complications. Your data stays yours. Everything lives on your device. No account, no sign-up, no analytics. Export everything as JSON or CSV whenever you like. PUFF DROP PREMIUM Quit plans that adapt: curved tapers, weekend-aware limits, cold turkey with a countdown, a maintain mode, and a re-plan when you slip — keep your date with a steeper taper, or push your date and keep your pace. Unlimited history and insights: time-of-day and weekday patterns, trigger tags (stress, social, alcohol, boredom, after a meal) and plain-arithmetic insights like "62% of your puffs are after 9 pm". Savings goals: attach something you want and see the day you can afford it. Longer craving sessions and distraction tasks, multiple reminders with quiet hours, iCloud sync, themes and app icons. Puff Drop is a self-tracking tool for adults 18 and over. It is not a substitute for professional help. If you want support quitting, a list of free public quitlines is available in Settings. Premium is available as an auto-renewing subscription or a one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://afterworkcoder.com/puffdrop/privacy Terms of Use: https://afterworkcoder.com/puffdrop/terms

Screenshots

Ctrl V4 screens
Puff Drop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ctrl V at 16.6 against Puff Drop's 18.0. 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. Ctrl V sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Puff Drop sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Ctrl V versus Puff Drop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCtrl VPuff Drop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size287 MB9 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperYa Nan ZhangLK Shop LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Ctrl V

Subscriptions2
  • Ctrl V Premium Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Ctrl V Premium Yearly$79.991 Year
3 purchases

Puff Drop

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Ctrl V free?
Ctrl V is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Puff Drop free?
Puff Drop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ctrl V or Puff Drop have ads?
Neither Ctrl V nor Puff Drop shows ads.

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